by Claire
As most of you know, we have made major changes to our eating habits in the near five months I have been blogging. I continue to see the tangible benefits to the budget as well as to our overall well-being so I must share. Stop by www.100daysofrealfood.com and take a look at the reviews of online meal planning sites. There’s something for everyone and the pros and cons are put out there. I’ve decided to give The Six O’Clock Scramble a try (www.thescramble.com) and so far, so GREAT! This is just our first week using this but talk about simple–time and money saving too! Each week a menu is sent out and via ZipList I get the grocery list on my mobile device and it is super easy to use at the grocery store. The recipes stay away from anything processed and if there is something that isn’t “real” the substitution is easy to figure out.
Steve and I went a on a little, tiny shopping trip today. We bought a new blender because we killed the old one and I found an ice cream maker on clearance for $15. Nothing fancy at all but I really wanted to try out homemade ice cream. There were a couple of things that struck us on this shopping trip…A) that it had been a very long time since we actually went shopping and B) that we didn’t get too distracted by the temptation of all the other many things in the store. That’s such a liberating feeling–to just not have the need/urge to drop money on thoughtless purchases.
We came home and made homemade peach sorbet! 3 ingredients–peaches, maple syrup and water. We loved it!!! Wow! We got peaches at the Farmers Market yesterday and nectarines in our produce co-op basket so we had lots to work with. This adventure got us that much closer to unanimous support for real food. I told Steve that the $15 we spent on that ice cream maker was less that what one trip to an ice cream shop would have cost us. That feels good!
