More Healthy Food
Alright, so I did get to the Organic store yesterday, and bought some bread. I haven’t had bread in SOOOOOO long. It’s a Spelt bread, made with Spelt flour, Sea Salt, and Filtered Water and it has a wild strain of yeast that is basically a sourdough type of starter that it uses. I really don’t know if I’m supposed to have that or not, as yeast is on my list of taboo things, but I have an appt on Thursday and I’ll ask.
It’s not a commercially made yest and supposedly that’s good that it’s not. I had 2 pieces of bread this morning with my eggs, and I thought I had gone to heaven. I wasn’t even sort of hungry until lunch time. YAH!
I’m still losing weight, and am down to 173lbs on my scale. So at the doctors office, I’m probably 175lbs. Only 2 lbs down, but hey 2lbs is 2 lbs. Weight Watchers wouldn’t even accept me at this point. I’m about 1 pound away from being within their “normal” weight range for my height.
So, as I was saying, I went to Ladybug Organics and bought some bread and some more Kamut Puffs (for breakfasts) and 2 kgs of Kamut flour. I had seen a recipe for Spelt-Kamut Tortillas, and was really wanting to make some kind of bread product that I could eat for lunches or dinners or even a snack.
So I made them today. The recipe calls for a total of 7 cups of flour and yields about 24 large or 36 small tortillas, and I halved the recipe, but I still got 20 large tortillas, so I guess it depends on whether or not you are making thin tortillas or a little bit thicker flat breads. They taste fabulous, and my kids have already eaten some. I’m going to have to hide them or make some more. Not that I’m really upset - they’re healthy, and it’s good my kids like them.
So, I am slowly figuring out some things that I can eat. I’m wondering how to get my weird flours cheaper? Am I going to need to start thinking about buying a machine that will grind my own flour? On one hand that sounds way too OUT THERE, and on the other hand it sounds OH SO EXCITING. Well, I’m not there yet. I guess that is one decision that I will figure out as I go.
I am interested in eating healthy for the long haul, and not just as a means to an immediate end. I want my kids to grow up eating healthy. I figure that it has to be possible to feed your kids well, and not have them be “weird” in front of the other kids. I want to find a way to make this life style work into our world, and our family. The way I figure it, if my kids are eating healthy most of the time, then what does it matter if they go to a friends birthday party and eat different, maybe unhealthy food once in a while. It doesn’t, not in my mind anyway! Just my mental ramblings…..
OH, and tomorrow is the first day of National De-lurking day - Are you ready? I’ll be commenting like a mad woman……….when I actually get on the computer that is……the kids are back in school tomorrow, and I HAVE to clean the house. It’s brutal! So tomorrow afternoon, hopefully!
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January 8th, 2007 @ 9:31 am
We grew up on only healthy foods, we called mom a granola head. We took rice cakes to school and traded everything we had for wagon wheels. When she was feeling generous we had “Life” cereal instead of just the usual corn flakes and rice crispies. We would spoon out the sugar over the bowl.
We were living on E. 11th during this time. She would make her own bread, yoghurt, pizza and cookies (if we were good). She sowed all of our clothes as well, at times our dresses matched the pillow cases which often matched the drapes. It’s hard to believe now looking at my parents that they once lived like hippies and she burned her bra… (little bunny trail there).
I try not to buy too many processed foods, growing up healthy - I know the garbage in that stuff but it is so darn convienent. With me working and not planning my time better… I’ve resorted to many a pre-cooked, just pop into the oven, meal. I’d like to get back to the basics and eat healthier too. My hubby could use to loose at least 25 pounds he gained with my 1st pregnancy. I’m not one to have chips and junk food around but gotta love those extra chunk chocolate chip cookies ‘n milk. We need to cut down our sugar consumption this year, that’s my first goal. Thanks for the good ideas with healthy foods.
I don’t know why I’m rambling on either…
happy cheap healthy food hunting.
I know why… I’m at work and am bored and yours is the only blog I can go on that the internet restrictions don’t stop me… oopps did I say that out loud…
see you in cyberspace - lurking around later.
January 8th, 2007 @ 9:52 am
I will start your “delurking week” with a bang! I have been reading your blog for a few months now because I can relate to you on so many levels. I too am a Christian, SAHM to three kids, wife to my best friend and a (homesick) Lower-Mainlander (we moved two years ago). I too struggle with issues like weight (I am a WW lifetime member), finances and nutrition.
Your recent posts have intrigued me because I have been on a quest for the past year to drastically improve my family’s diet. When I read your last post I had to smile because guess what I got for Christmas? A grain mill! If you are heading “out there” then I am already there waiting for you.
Over the past year I have cut most processed foods out of our diet and now make a lot of things from scratch. We eat mostly whole foods. My most recent challenges have been to cut out “white foods” like flour, rice and sugar. We’re almost there but it’s always challenging to balance new ideas with a budget, old habits and kids (and a husband) who like things that way they’ve always been. It always helps to make things yourself…it’s healthier and cheaper. I’ve got some great recipes for homemade stuff like bread and granola…though I haven’t really experimented too much with grains other than wheat, oats, barley and rice. The internet is a wealth of information!
Anyway, I’ve gotta go…but please email me and I’ll send you some websites and recipes that I have used for our family. Blessings to you!
January 8th, 2007 @ 5:55 pm
wow on the HUGE comments! so I don’t feel left out here is my extra long comment!!
I read about all your health stuff and I literally cringe at all the work and thought!! hehehe I know not good but what can I say got to be honest! I remember what my mom fed us and I HATED it…we snuck SO much candy! our good old trips to the candy store after school! I went over board letting our kids have candy cuz I felt so depraived but I do need to find more of a healthy balance…I have stopped buying crap juice, the only juice I buy now is the really expensive kind but it has no added sugar and is 100% juice and they are only aloud to have a little bit here and there, water and milk is all they’re allowed. Even milk I don’t like them drinking too much of. so baby steps for me but I am getting there, at least the grocery stores are making it easier and providing more healthy options.
ya sorry for the no visit, we were on such a tight schedule, my mom told me she felt rather jipped on a visit with us seeing them for only an hour! Next time! which will probably be the summer we will be down for at least a week.
have a good delurking week….I forgot to post something about it on mine….oh well there is always tomorrow!
love ya
January 8th, 2007 @ 9:28 pm
Hi, I found your blog through MattK’s blog who I found through my cousin Tawny’s blog. Well her husband Ryan is actually my first cousin, Tawny is his wife and a good friend of mine. Blah blah blah, anyway, I have been reading your blog for about a month, and you never cease to make me laugh!!! I am new to this blog thing; I don’t have a blog but it is really fun reading yours. I have three kids too, and I stay at home, and I live in Abbotsford. I feel kinda wierd reading your blog when you don’t even know me. Does that make sense? But it’s a good distraction from my own daily grind, and you are an excellent writer. Blog is a really wierd word and I have been writing it a lot. I’m wierding myself out by even writing this to you!!! I better send it before I chicken out. Hee hee hee………
January 9th, 2007 @ 12:37 am
Just so the world knows…I officially ‘de-lurked’ - after reading your blog for the last couple of months and not remembering to post anything - tonight I did! So..there you go! AND by the way…you do look GREAT! So happy for you! There are lots of ways to slowly introduce healthy foods into the family. I think ‘baby steps’ is the answer. My oldest three actually eat quite healthy - the younger two, not so much! But…I wished I’d been more consistent when they were all younger! Way to go that you’re trying!
January 9th, 2007 @ 7:39 am
Happy delurking week!! I know we are trying to eat more healthy here too. It is not so easy though, we find it hard to pay more for certain things, but in the long run it is better for our bodies. I do make a lot of things from scratch, cause it usually tastes better. I enjoy reading your posts about this stuff, because it makes me think more about our lives!
January 9th, 2007 @ 12:47 pm
Delurk Deluck
I know I suck
I never put a comment down
I know that it makes you frown.
Well, here you go
as good as it gets.
This is all I know
I don’t have terrets.
Love ya