Shelling purple hull cowpeas
banana bread prep
cast iron for our potatoes
banana bread made with freshly ground spelt flour soaked overnight in buttermilk, recipe from Nourishing Traditions
local peaches and homegrown blackberries, destined for a small batch of jam
pico de gallo made from our homegrown onions and tomatoes, recipe from The Pioneer Woman Cooks
so simple and good
a couple of our girls, nibbling at the peach skins, ultimately turning their beaks up and walking away
I want to thank you all for your thoughtful words on my hungry and confused post. You helped me to get back where I needed to be: grounded in my reality. I sat down and thought about the way we eat, and why we do so. I mentally listed what I know to be true, what is most important to us as a family, and what is feasible, not to mention affordable. Then I thought about changes that we could make, and if we were to make such changes, why exactly would we be doing so?
The conclusion that I reached is that we are all well. We don’t have pressing health concerns spurring us to try new diets, especially diets that would eliminate foods that we consider staples, and add foods that we can hardly fathom swallowing.
So…
I will remain deliberate in our food choices. We will continue to eat whole food, real food, local food, and organic food whenever possible.
I will accept that I have a child with special dietary needs, and continue to work towards feeding him the diet that is most healthful for him.
I will continue to try to walk the line between worrying and making informed choices.
I will most likely continue to ask myself silly little questions when evaluating food choices such as: Would Laura and Mary have eaten this?
And if the food in question is a dark chocolate gelato, and I am quite sure that Laura never tried it, and positive that it is forbidden on many diets because it has sugar in it, but I am feeling rather stressed over something not related to food at all, then I will probably put it in my cart. Even if I found it in a freezer endcap rather than in the “safe” periphery areas of the grocery store. Especially if it’s on sale.
The bottom line is that we are just doing the best we can with what we know and what we have available, right? For me, the one with the personality type described by my best friend on the phone tonight as obsessive, I am just trying to make healthy,informed and responsible choices without getting too obsessed. It’s hard sometimes.
Off to make that peach blackberry jam with Jonny. Boy do we know how to have a hot date night!
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