Our Food Adventure

Recently we have begun to change the way we are eating.  We have cut out all processed foods, focusing on eating more vegetables and only whole grains.  I have to say, we all feel better and Mike and I have both lost a little weight in the four weeks we have done it.  Here are some of our favorite meals so far:

Farmer's market stiry fry with broccoli, yellow squash, carrots, cauliflower, shrimp and some kind of bean that I already forgot the name of!  With a little brown rice it was heaven!  The kids didn't love it, but they did pick out the veggies they liked and ate the brown rice.

I also made a homemade spaghetti sauce:  tomatoes from my garden and the farmer's market, onion, eggplant, basil and a little honey.  The kids ate it up with whole wheat spaghetti.

Meme, you laughed at me but we made Kale chips.  They were good.  Between the kids and I we ate an entire bunch of kale in one sitting.  Mike wasn't in love with them, but the batch that he tried was a little burned.

Ava helped to make (and eat) Kale chips.

Baby verdict:  kale chips get two thumbs up!

I think the biggest change for Mike was meatless dinners.  Although he prefers a dinner with meat, he has ate my meatless concoctions and enjoyed them.  Even the ones with onion, squash, and peppers!

Tonight I served salad (!) for dinner.  Mike ate it, and even said he liked it.  Later on, he told me "Wow, I'm really stuffed."  What a huge change from the man I met ten years ago who would eat 80+ wings in one sitting!   

I have to say there have also been major successes with the kids  Carter did eat some lettuce and avocado, but mainly picked the eggs out of his salad.  Then for dessert he asked for applesauce!  I'm so proud of that little boy!

It's been a learning process for me, because really I know very little about the actual act of cooking.  I know how to open a jar of spaghetti sauce and dump it over noodles, but I've never made a homemade sauce.  Or homemade granola.  Or homemade tortillas (they were to die for!)  On the downside:  I feel like I'm cooking/cleaning up the kitchen all the time.

Thank you, grandparents for putting up with this very non-grandchild centered post.