We have been making some changes as far as eating goes. In the past few years we've made an effort to be more healthy. Not low-fat healthy, but eating raw, natural and preservative free food. We quit buying cow's milk and cheese about 4 years ago and switched to rice milk. Occasionally we'll buy cheese, but for a long time we bought none of it. Recently we have found a farm that has raw cow's milk and we are considering buying a share of a cow so we can have raw milk, cheese, cream and yogurt.
In the past few days I have started making our bread again in the bread machine. It's not a lot of work, saves money and tastes wonderful. I know exactly what's in the bread (water, salt, butter honey, flour and yeast) and know that it's healthy for my children. At some point, I would like to buy a grain mill and grind our own flour. However, the grinder things are quite expensive and I just don't know if I'm "there" yet.
Yesterday I attempted to make my own yogurt in the crock pot. It didn't turn out, but I'm determined to try it again! We're still going to use it in smoothies, but it won't work for eating with a spoon!
I've been making huge batches of fruit salad...enough for 3 days and putting them in freezer bags or glass containers with lids in the fridge. It takes awhile to cut it all up, but the kids love it and we have it for several days. It helps me to make sure to feed them fruit. I plan to do the same thing with veggies. I guess Mondays and Thursdays are going to be laundry AND cooking days!
Some things I am hoping to try soon are
making bread without the machine (so I can make several loaves at once)
making soaked buttermilk biscuits from scratch
making tortillas from scratch (1st try didn't go so well!)
making our own peanut butter
making our own salad dressings (Nourishing Traditions is in my Amazon cart to order 6/1)!
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