Friday, January 6, 2012

Month 1: FOOD

Sunday is the start of our first month.  Our focus for the next 30 days will be on food.  Here’s the way we plan to approach the month. 

  1. As a family, we’ve agreed to a list of 7 foods that we’ll build our dinners around.  Tom and I will do all 7 foods all the time, and the girls will have breakfasts and lunches pretty much like they always do.
  2. So that we don’t have our refrigerator, freezer and cabinets sitting there full of food all month, we will use what is already in the house to supplement our dinner meals.
  3. We’ll shop for groceries no more than 7 times all month.  This is to push us into meal planning and cutting down on random trips to the grocery store for one thing or another.
  4. We won’t do any purchasing of snacks/drinks outside of the house.  Again, planning ahead will be key.
  5. Ditto for going out to dinner, I think.  It just seems too hard. (It’s hard enough doing it gluten free normally, much less telling a server that we need gluten free and only 7 other possible ingredients.)   If we do find ourselves in need of meals out due to work commitments or travel, Tom and I will choose carefully to stay within our 7 foods.
  6. For the girls’ food, we will minimize the amount of processed foods they eat.
  7. We will look for opportunities to share and donate food.  A trip to volunteer at Feed My Starving Children may be in order.  Maybe we’ll get a group organized to go together.  Let us know in the comments if you’re interested!
Now for the big reveal!  Our 7 foods for the month are:

  1. Pork
  2. Milk/cream
  3. Eggs
  4. Gluten free flour (brown rice flour, sweet rice flour, almond flour, potato starch, tapioca starch)
  5. Sweet potatoes
  6. Avocaos
  7. Apples
Being a bit of a foodie, it was actually really fun to think about the items we should include on our list.  The factors we considered included pure, unprocessed ingredients, overall nutritional balance, foods everyone will eat, and foods that I know I can transform and combine.  So, all my foodie friends out there, send me your recipes and suggestions, pretty please!

Tomorrow is shopping trip #1, and the fun begins on Sunday at the breakfast table.

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