Well, I had my whole post written and something went funky and now it's gone. So here's the quick version. Sweets were everywhere, at every meal, at every function. Chips were only for game days until every day became game day. It all had to go. We cleaned out the pantry of everything processed and started fresh, ten days ago. With real food comes less eating out, of course, and more eating in which leads to...meal planning...I cringe at the phrase. I have always quoted the phrase "those who fail to plan, plan to fail" knowing that I was usually the one without a plan. So the New Year rang in and I sat down and painstakingly planned our first week of meals. I only planned three meals but amazingly we didn't need any more than that (thank goodness!). Our amazing neighbors shared some left over chili, and our family invited us for dinner another night. Between leftovers and all of the givers we were set for the most part. We ran out of eggs about three days before the week was up and I did everything short of trying to make scrambled eggs with Egg Replacer (as it very clearly tells you on the box you cannot do). So, one week down. We ate well and stayed in budget. Week two started yesterday and kind of failed on the budget, but on the bright side we should have some pretty awesome meals this week! I'm hoping at the end of this week I can see what I need to do differently. Always a learning process. Meals last week were from pinchofyum.com and meals this week are things I've made before and from other various sources. Hope to share in detail soon. The pic below is our New Year's Day breakfast: G-Free pancakes with honey apple butter and pecans.
