Let me preface this by saying I didn't mean to ignore my blog for 4 days, but we've had family things going on. Family night with both of David's brothers for sushi (for me and his brothers anyhow), the youngest brother is moving into a new place and I've been helping his girlfriend with moving stuff. Oh and the weather here has been rather lovely so garden prepping and spring cleaning has been starting up. Anyhow... on to the real subject of this post.....
I was discussing with Stacy that I would like to have a challenge partner for a all homemade week. Oddly enough it was apparently a just posted subject at Homemakers Who Work, which came from Not Dabbling in Normal.
Perfect timing! We've been eating out too much. It's got to end. I know we don't need it, and I know our bank account doesn't need it. Once a month for sushi or something is fine though. ;)
It is being based off of having watched Food Inc. so it's going to be about local, sustainable, and organic eating habits. We eat largely organic in this house anyhow thanks to my anal retentiveness about it. A month may be a huge leap, so I'm going to look at one week at a time. Make what I can from scratch, and rely on no pre-packaged foods. No cookie mixes, or pancake mix .. things like that. Obviously avoiding things like juice and milk will not be so easy, but I can buy organic and make sure that the packaging gets recycled (or returned in the case of the milk).
I can make crackers.
I can make waffles.
I can make pancakes.
I can make cookies.
I can make granola.
I can make muesli.
I can make biscuits.
I can even try my hand at making pasta.
I can make the things that we eat.
I can stop buying packaged foods, and stop getting "fast food".
Welcome to the challenge...and thanks so much for the links to the milk recipes! Kim
Posted by: the Inadvertent Farmer | 02/22/2010 at 03:22 PM