Getting Started

I decided to create this blog to A. Have a dedicated place to put my thoughts together and B. To maybe, hopefully give someone else an idea of how they may save a little money and be a little healthier to boot. Growing up my Mother worked two jobs (sometimes three) to provide for my sister and I. We usually ate whatever could be heated up in the microwave or popped into the toaster. Being an adult now with two kids of my own I cook alot more but still rely on boxed macaroni and cheese and microwave conveniences. This blog is my sounding board for new ideas and the baby steps we are taking to not only eat fresh, less processed food but to also make it affordable. I can not go out and buy everything organic or the latest and greatest health craze (yet) so my focus is to make the foods from scratch or close to scratch that I already buy. My two main areas that I am working on right now is what can I do with my abundance of waste and taking a hard look at my freezer. The freezer is a wonderful tool but mine is usually filled with processed frozen waffles, burritos, pizzas, etc. So I will be posting my trials and errors and the recipes that won! Another area that I want to pursue is our tastebuds. I know alot of it is mental just ask my 12 year old when I put a new food on the table. Her suspicion of the food can modify what signals her tastebuds send to her brain. In America today and in my very own house we have started to mistrust the farmer. We think if it comes from the supermarket it is fresh and safe to eat. My 12 year old does not like to eat anything, especially meat, from the farmers market because all the vegetables do not look perfectly unblemished and uniform like they are at Publix. The meat does not look bright pink with chemical-laden additives and gases like at the supermarket. Even my husband distrusts a farm fresh egg. I would not dream of drinking raw milk or giving it to my children. It is a sad thing when our minds are conditioned to trust people in lab coats that mix chemicals together to see what tastes more like a pear than actually putting pear in their products. I will be exploring this topic more. Though I can't say I will ever add raw milk to my shopping list I do think there is alot of room for improvement in my household. I hope you learn something from this journey and God Bless you!