So it’s Sunday,
time to review the last week ( the 18th-24th) of my year of making.
a week of #yearofmaking
Category Archives: Food
meal planning like a grown up
In order to help save some money, and also just be better about what we eat we have finely started meal planning.
We pick 6 meals for the week leaving room for one night out for family night, maybe some leftovers or even more likely that classic back up for people who just really don’t want to cook – frozen pizza. Continue reading
pancakes, my gateway gluten
We try to eat pretty healthy at home.
We try to follow a roughly paleo lifestyle, which for us basically means lots and lots of veggies, good protein (like grass fed beef from a local farmer), low amounts of dairy, no milk (before anyone says anything about calcium, me and my son are sensitive to lactose- I will not not go into what a big ol’glass of milk would do to us, but it isn’t pretty) and if we can help it no wheat. We are pretty loose on the fruit thing too, but paleo encourages no sugar, so only low glycemic fruit and small amounts of it. Continue reading
So, I’m making pasta sauce
So after a couple of years of not feeling the need, I very urgently needed to make red sauce this year. Like lets wake up at 6am in the morning and go to the farmers market and buy those whole baskets of tomatoes right now kind of need. It turned out being more like 9am, but still…
(WHY is it called “red” sauce, i know, I know it’s red. But there has to be more to it. Just calling it red makes it sound very mid-western I guess.) Continue reading