This is the week where the rubber meets the road in my challenge preparations. My grocery list for this week is in some ways the same as every week…some ways are profoundly different.
Still on the list…
Fresh Organic Fruits and Veggies (locally grown as much as possible)
Bulk nuts and grains
Spices
Sugar
Yeast
Vegetable oil
Dried beans
Organic Eggs (my chickens haven’t started laying yet this year)
Honey (we lost our last hive in the fall)
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Missing from the list…
Tortilla chips
Tortillas
Frozen Juice
Rice Milk
Dried Pasta
Bagels
Veggie meats (Garden Burgers, hot dogs, and bologna)
Ketchup, Mayo, Mustard
Cereal
Main meals will not be too much of a stretch for me but the convenience of things like granola bars and cereal will be more challenging. Trail mix will replace chips, homemade granola and grains cooked overnight will replace boxed cereals. Homemade nut milk will replace purchased Rice Milk.
I am searching for ways of buying from local farmers instead of the supermarket…although March is not a high time for farmer’s markets. We do have a grocery store that carries local produce, I will be asking my produce manager to point to in that direction.
I have also started greens in my sunroom with the hopes of maybe harvesting at least a small amount of fresh baby greens next month.
I am excited, the kids don’t care one way or the other, hubby is skeptical…we will see if a modern family can really eat ‘real foods’ for a month!
There are two things that I have me worried…pasta and ketchup.
Can I make my own pasta and live without Heinz Ketchup?
We will see…
Document the making of your own pasta ^_^ should be fun.
Are ye against organic milk? How does one go about making nut milk?
I’m not sure how one milks a nut either. It would be worse than milking a pygmy goat. How much milk does one nut give in a day? How big a herd do you have to have to get a glass of milk?
Hahaha…yes that is what a need, a herd of nuts to go with my camel!
We switched to rice milk when the crazy women decided to become vegan after reading ‘the china study’. But for this challenge I will make nut milk…simply a variety of raw nuts, water, with a touch of vanilla and honey. I make it in my Vita Mix. It really is delicious. Kim
If I can make my own pasta then you can too. Btw, the first time I attempted to make dumplings for chicken soup I they fell apart into Chicken and Gravy Globs. So yes, you can make your own pasta!
I am going to give it a try…with all 5 kids living back home for a couple of months I’m hoping to get really efficient at it so I am not chained to the kitchen all day!
So any tips for my? Kim
The worst chore ever is getting groceries!
If you’re not against soy milk you can make that from whole soy beans on your own, then use the left over pulp (okara) for cooking ..
http://www.ellenskitchen.com/faqs/tofumilk.html#blanch
And I found a rice milk recipe too …
http://www.veganreader.com/2009/05/17/how-to-make-rice-milk-and-stop-supporting-rice-dream/
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Thanks! I just read her article and will be giving rice/nut milk a try!
We have been trying to cut back on soy…Kim
Pasta is so much fun! And easier than you think it will be espessially if you have a pasta roller. Or are better than me with a rolling pin.