The Real Food Project

After finishing a small bowl of potato salad and then a small mug of icecream, (local bluebell of course) I cracked open my "Whole Grain Baking" King Arthur Flour book.  Why the well rounded dinner followed by whole grain recipe reading?  Well...

Inspired by the book "In Defense of Food" by Michael Pollan and the food blog "100 days of real food" the husband and I have decided to take the challenge. Now a 100 day challenge is quite overwhelming if you are following all of the rules.  And there is of course the ten day challenge. But we were thinking along the lines of a 30 day challenge, but with a few modifications.

1. We will eat local meat with in our budget. That may not include any local meat as it tends to be quite expensive.
2. Both a Alamo Drafthouse Indiana Jones Feast (a pre-planned 5 course meal) and several trips to the Texas Renaissance Fair will fall in our designated 30 days. These meals are of course excluded from the rules.

Now I have read all of the posts for the original 100 day challenge and I know that the author would have never considered changing the rules, but we really have to make it work for us. I still think that we will gain many benefits from this experiment.

Since moving to Texas we both get sick a lot, and have many allergies. Maybe this will help. We have been trying to eat healthy-ish in the past 6 months or so. (In fact I've been doing a lot of label reading lately and we try to stock more fresh foods than canned or boxed. I found that since we gave ourselves a weekly budget of $60 we force ourselves to go shopping once a week, really focus on what we buy and try really hard not to let anything go to waste.) I'm not sure that this has done much for our health though, as I think we have both gotten sick. But maybe the stricter rules will be a better defense for the fall season that is usually full of colds and other sicknesses...

And since we are starting on Monday, all of the crap food that was leftover from the BBQ last weekend must be finished. Potato salad and ice cream anyone?