Two days ago was the last day of this science experiment for me. That was also the first day of a week long visit from out of town family, so finding a few moments to blog about the food and feelings for the day has been challenging.
Breakfast on Monday was a small bowl of oat meal with raisins. I ended up driving the children to school (usually it's my husband). After dropping them off at school I picked up my order from Sam's Club and then headed home. I prepared a bunch of make ahead crock pot freezer meals because we'd run out. My goal is to make a few every week, but for various reasons it had been three weeks since I last prepared any.
The irony about spending a lot of time on food preparation is that I tend to not eat very well while working on it. I did have some leftover Mexican chili for lunch. I added copious amounts of cheese to it. I also had a cup of caffeinated coffee with raw honey and cream.
Dinner was a delicious grilled roast. It's basically steak, but much thicker. It still tastes delicious served rare. I also ate a baked potato with butter, salt and sour cream, some roasted carrots and onions, and a salad consisting of lettuce, bell peppers and carrots with Ranch dressing. Dinner was definitely the high meal of the day.
One stressful part of the day had to do with trying to work out some scheduling issues with my husband while also taking care of the baby and preschooler. We obviously didn't get everything communicated properly because today (two days later) I ended up 45 minutes late to work because neither my husband nor the out of town family came home in time to relieve me. It's honestly possible that I never actually mentioned what time I needed to be at work as there were so many other details to go over.
But back to Monday, I put up eleven meals in the freezer and then two more the following day. I still have some butternut squash to finish processing. So I felt pretty triumphant about getting my freezer stocked up again. I was able to finish because the kids got a ride home from school, meaning I did not have to pack up the smallest children and drive in to get them myself, and could instead just keep working.
I am very happy to be finally done with this project.
I'm looking forward to posting some other kinds of articles here on Steemit. That might take a while, though, as my work is pretty intense at the moment. In any case, I now have one less thing to do each day. I was glad to participate in the project and I hope 