Sooooo... my family is doing a ten day real food challenge. We are eating no processed foods for ten days. I got the idea from here. I really thought it would be easy as I like to think we are pretty healthy eaters over here. When I grocery shopped last night I realized that we eat a fair amount of processed food. Things like yogurt, condiments and bread bread are common processed foods around here. Hmmm, as I shopped I thought maybe I had bit off more that I could chew. But as I looked at the back of food packages I became more determined to give this a go. There is so much junk in our food! I know that we won't give up all processed foods forever but if we can cut out even a few after this little experiment then we will have done good for ourselves.
Breakfast for day one included banana bread that I had made a few weeks ago and froze and applesauce (from a jar, we can eat packaged foods with five or fewer ingredients).
Our morning snack was air popped popcorn, one of our faves anyway.
I was going to make a homemade mac-n-cheese for lunch but then I remembered we had homeschool park day. What could I make that was portable? My kids love sandwiches so I decided to make bread this morning. I used to make bread all the time with my bread machine but to be honest I like Orowheat a lot better! I found a new recipe to try this morning though and did not use the bread machine and it turned out quite nicely. We took carrots and grapes along with the sandwiches.
Dinner must be portable as well since we eat it between the big girls basketball practices on Thursday nights. I intended to do chicken salads with homemade ranch but I think John wants to try sandwiches on the bread so I am going to do tuna.
I made chocolate chips cookies today also as a treat so that no one feels too deprived.
I spent a lot of time in the kitchen today which made schooling a little challenging at times. I am going to work this weekend at getting some muffins, granola and granola bars made to make things a little more convenient.
All in all I think this will be good for us. Planning ahead will be the key.
