It’s summer time. This means I have a lot of children in the house all day every day. Kids want to eat constantly. This gets challenging. If we ate garbage food, I’d buy a giant box of goldfish crackers for them to munch on throughout the day and at least I wouldn’t go broke. . […]
This is how/why I can believe in evolution as a Catholic Christian. . . I’m constantly evolving and I’m convinced we aren’t the same humans as Adam & Eve. Life happens. Society happens. Ideas arise and fall. Life evolves. Right now, I’m going backward again. For a while I was pretty strict purist Paleo- no […]
When the kids are home, they want to eat ALL THE TIME. Seriously, you’d think they were starving. In reality I think it’s more boredom than anything. We are limited in the amount of out and about time we can have since I run a childcare from my home and taking 16 kids on outings […]
Seriously people. I’m 25.5 weeks pregnant and something is going on. At first glance, we thought I had a bladder infection so I went in for a quick UA. The initial report was lots of blood, not much bacteria. Huh. . . well, let’s start an antibiotic over the weekend while it goes off for […]
Now. . . if I get really crazy, I will prep some meals for the freezer. I’ll get back to y’all on that. 🙂 In our budget post, I indicated that meal plans were on the way. So- our meat for the month is 30lbs of beef (ground, steak, stew, roast, oxtail), 4 whole chickens, […]
Technically, I think our 100 days is over or probably close, but who knows since I’ve lost track. The reality is, we always eat real food with minor deviations for special occasions, so this is more about budget than anything else in our world. Tonight, I came up with a “plan”. This keeps us at […]
Real Food, Pregnancy Style. . . There is some slight deviation from purest Paleo here. . . I’m okay with that. This is yesterdays food log. . . I’m on a sugar detox again (oh joy!). I’m determined to avoid the Glucose Tolerance Test that is standard at 28 weeks of pregnancy, so I will […]
Really. . . today is day 48. I’m a slacker. I also haven’t done great budget wise (as in I didn’t keep track). A new month is around the bend and I vow to pull my grocery money out and NOT use my debit card. That way I have more accountability. I am getting better […]
Today marks day 36 in our 100 Days of Real Food Challenge. I missed my order for produce this week. . . UGH. I forgot to get online until Sunday evening and the order had already closed. Boo. In other news- tonight we enjoyed two Draper Free Range (hormone and antibiotic free) rotisserie chickens. After […]
This week’s co-op orders- $170 (including donation) for ~30lbs of local, grassfed beef. In the produce world, the above was procured for $50 (including a donation). Even if I bought nothing else this week, my family could eat well on this haul. On the meat front, we got 6 NY strip steaks, ~2lbs of sirloin […]
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