October #Unprocessed Wrap-Up: a List of Links
It’s over. Or is it? At the start of October Unprocessed, I felt my family was already eating quite unprocessed, but throughout the challenge, I learned that there were some easy changes I could make to complete our unprocessed transition. Last week, I vowed to finish strong with this challenge but I did it without even being conscious of it! -Awesome homemade pizza instead of delivery made for a fun picnic-style dinner on Friday. -I roasted a whole chicken in the oven for our Sunday meal. -I pulled a loaf of slice-and-bake crackers from the freezer for snacking this week. -This...
Read MoreHow Did We Get So Far from #Unprocessed?
How Did We Get So Far From an Unprocessed Way of Eating? I’ll tell ya how: the family unit broke down. This isn’t newsworthy; it’s a common fact. But until we take the American family back to basics socially (one parent works outside the home, one manages the home, a village helps raise the children), there isn’t much hope for healthful eating. I used to be a working mom (outside of the home) and it.sucked. Know why? I didn’t love it. At least, I didn’t love it enough to want to continue the working mom thing. And I was concerned with raising our family in...
Read MoreOctober #Unprocessed Wk 1 Meal Plan
October Unprocessed Week 1 This shit is hard. I’m not joking. I do our grocery shopping mid-week, generally utilizing coupons, ad sales, meal-planning and general basic math and food knowledge to maximize our options and minimize our grocery bill. Perhaps it was meant to be that I shopped this week sans meal plan, with only a sparse list of essentials and an envelope stuffed with coupons. I hadn’t spent the hour (or more) planning for my grocery trip and I had put ZERO thought into meals for the week outside of knowing I would be buying for the start of October Unprocessed. My...
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