Finding Contentment

The fast food challenge

It's seems like an impossible task. Go without eating fast food for a month? Chas has posted the challenge, and I and a few others have accepted (relunctantly on my part).

I say reluctantly because I have given myself this challenge before, and always failed at it. Since we are still living in the city, it is just too easy to go a few blocks away and get the kids some chicken nuggets instead of cooking on a particularly busy night.

When we first challenged ourselves to homestead, I knew eating out would be one of the first things that would have to go. I have learned a lot since that time. I have learned to make jam, bread and many other things from scratch. It works well until some mini-crisis hits and we all get busy - then back to the restaurants we go! I am going to try freezing things and plan on canning much of what we get from the garden this year, in the hopes that there will always be food on hand.

So here we go again, but this time I hope the encouragement of the other homesteading bloggers will be enough to pull us through. They say it takes about a month to establish a habit. If we can pull off the challenge and not eat out for a month, we will have broken the habit. Wish us luck!

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05:16 PM, Thursday, May 3, 2007 .. Posted by morningsunshine

I am here too! I had to post my week's menu. I find having a menu helps. and for luches for the kids, I find that it is cheaper - and slighly healthier, but not much! - to buy a big Costco bag of chicken nuggets and tator tots for lunches. you can even splurge and buy a yummy dipping sauce and still come in under one trip to Fast semi-Food. the other thing about hte menu - look at it in the morning, not at 4pm when you are ready to start thinking about dinner. I have done that only to discover that dinner is supposed to be crockpotted! lol!
YOU CAN DO THIS.

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11:12 AM, Friday, May 4, 2007 .. Posted by Rhen

You can do it!!

All for His glory,
~Rhen

The Challenge and Chickens

12:58 PM, Friday, May 4, 2007 .. Posted by millersgrainhouse

Hi Barb!
Thanks for taking the time to see those videos! Bless your heart. I posted the actual first one on my blog to show you a little of milling the whole grains.

About the challenge...yep...it is hard to eat healthy when life gets goofy or stressful. Some tips might be to make ahead some stuff when you DO have the time and put it in the freezer or make some homemade 'mixes' like cornbread or muffins (wet stuff in one container - dry stuff in the other) to thow together fast when stress hits.

Tonight I"m using those pizza crusts I made in the video! They're frozen now and ready to top! Easy peezie lemon squeezy!

BTW: Where did you get your chicks? We need some and have killed two batches in our incubator (not sure what happened - power surges I think)...any help would be appreciated!

Best Blessings in our Risen Messiah!
Donna M