Food at the Berry Household
Over the course of the summer, our household changed food habits quite a bit. JD has been making a good deal of effort to drastically cut the amount of processed food we buy and consume. There is some amount of replacing Factory Brand Cookie Product with Aunt Trudy's All Natural Carbon-Neutral Cookies, but a lot of it is doing homemade cookies from scratch instead.
She's been drinking smoothies with greens blended in for a while, but she has also increased the amount of vegetables we eat...and fresh veggies, too, not just more canned stuff. One of us hits the downtown farmer's market each Thursday for local meat, veggies, and fruit. We've had some of the largest leaves of kale that dwarf anything we've seen at Earth Fare or Publix. Oh, and the kale. Yes, I've eaten some very bitter kale...but I really enjoy it in stir fry and as "kale chips" (lightly oil and sprinkle with sea/kosher salt, bake in the oven until crispy). I used to enjoy occasionally buying up a bunch of fruit and binging for a week. Now, it is uncommon to not have several fruit and veggie snacking options. We've been borrowing JD's parents' food dehydrator so much lately that I think it's likely we'll be getting one for Christmas this year. Feel guilty for keeping it so much, but I love the dried apples, banana bread chips, and beef jerky.
My biggest food addiction lately has been peanut butter banana smoothie popsicles. The kids have been making a bunch of apple juice popsicles for themselves. These have been nice treats with the heat of the past couple of months.
She's been drinking smoothies with greens blended in for a while, but she has also increased the amount of vegetables we eat...and fresh veggies, too, not just more canned stuff. One of us hits the downtown farmer's market each Thursday for local meat, veggies, and fruit. We've had some of the largest leaves of kale that dwarf anything we've seen at Earth Fare or Publix. Oh, and the kale. Yes, I've eaten some very bitter kale...but I really enjoy it in stir fry and as "kale chips" (lightly oil and sprinkle with sea/kosher salt, bake in the oven until crispy). I used to enjoy occasionally buying up a bunch of fruit and binging for a week. Now, it is uncommon to not have several fruit and veggie snacking options. We've been borrowing JD's parents' food dehydrator so much lately that I think it's likely we'll be getting one for Christmas this year. Feel guilty for keeping it so much, but I love the dried apples, banana bread chips, and beef jerky.
My biggest food addiction lately has been peanut butter banana smoothie popsicles. The kids have been making a bunch of apple juice popsicles for themselves. These have been nice treats with the heat of the past couple of months.