I'm Still Here
I can not believe I have not posted until today. We have had a busy week so far but it has been good.
I did not post my meal plan this week because Sunday my husband starting having, what we think to be, gallbladder issues. So... out went my menu for the week. Since Sunday afternoon we have had no meat, no dairy, nothing fatty and he has taken caffeine out of his diet. I tried but could not give up the caffeine yet. I have one cup of coffee in the morning and usually 3-4 glasses of iced tea during the day. I gave up my coffee and tried the tea but today the headache was too much and I caved in. I asked him if it would bother or tempt him and since he said he was okay with it I poured myself a big glass of tea with my lunch. I figured if I was having withdrawals I probably should decrease my intake but I can not do it cold turkey. Weak, I know!
Meals have have actually turned out pretty good and we have talked for long time about cutting back on meat so this gave us the push we needed to implement it. For five days we will have no meat then if we will try to limit it to 1-2 times per week. We eat lots of veggies and beans anyways so I am not worried bout any ill effects this will have on us.
Also this week I went back to grinding my own wheat for bread. You see for about a year or so I have made our bread, buying it only once when we were camping, but I have been using white bread flour from Sam's. While I know it is better for us than white bread from the store I know the fresh wheat flour is 100 times better that the other. Yesterday I mixed it 50/50 and everyone seemed to enjoy it. The plan is to slowly decrease the white and increase the wheat until my family complains or hopefully we will get to 100% wheat and everyone, even me, will enjoy it.
well I guess that's about all I have time for right now, I need to start gathering stuff up for my class tonight at church and I need to strighten up the house. Oh, and in case your wondering, other that a headach Scott is feeling better already!
I did not post my meal plan this week because Sunday my husband starting having, what we think to be, gallbladder issues. So... out went my menu for the week. Since Sunday afternoon we have had no meat, no dairy, nothing fatty and he has taken caffeine out of his diet. I tried but could not give up the caffeine yet. I have one cup of coffee in the morning and usually 3-4 glasses of iced tea during the day. I gave up my coffee and tried the tea but today the headache was too much and I caved in. I asked him if it would bother or tempt him and since he said he was okay with it I poured myself a big glass of tea with my lunch. I figured if I was having withdrawals I probably should decrease my intake but I can not do it cold turkey. Weak, I know!
Meals have have actually turned out pretty good and we have talked for long time about cutting back on meat so this gave us the push we needed to implement it. For five days we will have no meat then if we will try to limit it to 1-2 times per week. We eat lots of veggies and beans anyways so I am not worried bout any ill effects this will have on us.
Also this week I went back to grinding my own wheat for bread. You see for about a year or so I have made our bread, buying it only once when we were camping, but I have been using white bread flour from Sam's. While I know it is better for us than white bread from the store I know the fresh wheat flour is 100 times better that the other. Yesterday I mixed it 50/50 and everyone seemed to enjoy it. The plan is to slowly decrease the white and increase the wheat until my family complains or hopefully we will get to 100% wheat and everyone, even me, will enjoy it.
well I guess that's about all I have time for right now, I need to start gathering stuff up for my class tonight at church and I need to strighten up the house. Oh, and in case your wondering, other that a headach Scott is feeling better already!
posted by Margaret at
3:30 PM
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