So I’m recovering from a three week sprint of events. First the Ancestor Feast & Food Drive, then the VegFest tent and 350 project, then the Annual Veggie Coffee Hour and Publix Picket for farm worker rights and fair wages. As you can imagine the house has been a flurry of crazy. While enjoyable on one level, on another it turns the household routines upside down.
So. We detox now. Not just in housekeeping and restoring order and putting away all the special events boxes of gear, but in body.
I went out this morning to Freshfield Farms for $60 in produce and then to nearby Publix for $100 staples like trash bags and mouth wash and some items I could not get at Freshfields. Here’s what $160 in groceries looks like. If I work it well, it should get us through feeding 2 adults and one little kid for most of 2 weeks.
Produce heavy because I’m going wheat and dairy free this week. I had a bad cold/allergy/asthma thing and I’m still bouncing back from it. I’ve been taking Actifed and my nose spray and then one day into the dairy and wheat free. I can already breath better through one nostril and there’s less mucus crud and post nasal drip.
Yay me!
LATER
Ok, didn’t make it all the way dairy/wheat free today. Got derailed by dinner and then cookies Paul brought home. Try again tomorrow. Today was shopping day so tomorrow is cooking day and I know I’ll do better once I have food made and waiting in the fridge.
Here’s the fridge before:
Here’s the fridge after:
Didn’t think I could stuff all the produce in there, did you? Tomorrow before I cook I have to better sort and pack. Today I just wanted it off the kitchen floor.
The game plan is…
- Baked Maple Acorn Squash & Leafy Salad (my lunch)
- Stuffed Peppers, Leafy Salad, & Catfish (our dinner)
- Barley Lentil Soup (Sat & Sun Lunch)
- Sweet Potato and Apple Dish (for a Sat night potluck)
- Curried Potatoes (for Sat night Potluck)
- Veggie Quiche of some kind… likely spinach or onion.
