Family Challenges
Whole Grains Challenge
Sep 2nd
A while ago I signed up for the RealAge newsletter. They sent out this great article about fairly uncommon whole grains and their cancer prevention benefits. It is a new family goal to come up with a favorite family recipe that has each of these grains as a main ingredient: kasha (buckwheat), quinoa, millet, and spelt.
We already have a favorite summer salad with bulgar, feta, grapes, walnuts… but we are waiting for grapes to be in season (or at least cheaper). We will share that recipe soon, but as for these other four grains- we either have never tried them (millet and spelt) or haven’t found a favorite family recipe yet.
A new mission! We accept the challenge.
Does anyone have a good recipe with millet of spelt?
Jimmy Johns
Jun 15th
Oh, blessed Jimmy Johns. How do I love your white bread! It is like candy. This new … challenge… makes it kind of an issue that my favorite sandwich is the Totally Tuna… which used to be called the Sorry Charlie (I liked that name better). I have been wanting to try their whole grain wheat bread for a while… so I got the:
Gourmet Veggie Club
The avocado spread is heavenly, the bread is soft and awesome. It comes with double cheese, which I didn’t notice, so next time I am going to try with half cheese and peppers… since I like things spicy.
As will all things Jimmy Johns, it is done being made before you can even pay for it. It is freakishly fast, so this remains an awesome quick stop sandwich shop- even now.
No More Milk Challenge
Jun 9th
Easy enough for a first challenge. We have given up milk before to the benefit of my allergies and all of our digestion, but recently we have gotten lazy and just gotten into the habit again of drinking cow’s milk. Enough is enough. No more. I found a couple nice online resource about can into this with some thoughts on the subject, but we decided to make up our own minds and try them all. The kids have tried and liked chocolate soy milk, chocolate almond milk (hello, when cocoa is liked as the top second of third ingredient- I love it too) but have vetoed original flavor hemp milk for drinking- though it was really nice for cooking- it was too grainy to drink. We don’t really like rice milk, but may try it again. From what I remember, it was completely nasty by itself and it didn’t even work as a coffee additive- I have also read that some rice fields have been shown to have higher arsenic levels in the water they use that flood the rice patties, so we really checked that off the list. If we can find a good rice milk that is highly rated though, we may try it. Not sure that exists.
It has been a couple weeks now and since this is a nice and easy challenge- we are up for it.
Does anyone have any other milk replacement suggestions?
Hello world!
Jun 5th
What is this?
Well, my family (my wife and I with kids, 5, 2, and 2 months) have decided to be “more veggies and less meat and dairy-atarians”? Bunnies love carrots… and so do we.
We want to come up with a whole list of family favorites to eat and prep quickly, so the default meal isn’t just some hunk of meat. The topics covered will be about how are we doing it… since it won’t be easy… that kind of thing.