ahh. well..

We are one week in on our Real food challenge. It hasn't been that hard, But let me tell you! Today I'm craving Brusetta like a crazy person! So I'm having it. From a box, totally Not real food, but, I figure it's that or eat randomly all day. The lesser of two evils is giving in when you need to. Other than that we are doing great! I am noticing a difference in energy and the amount I want to eat. It is awesome seeing CJ make responsible food choices all on his own. He is not being forced in any way and when he asks if he can have something that doesn't qualify, I tell him it is not what he is supposed to be eating but it's his choice. 9 times out of 10, he is making a different choice. He is only 8, so I think it's huge that he is doing that. Now to work on his attitude! LOL. 

Todd is, Of course, being a doll and reading labels for me and being careful what he buys. We are are very aware of the fact that living on a budget means we also have to eat what we have in the house weather it follows the guidelines or not, but we are trying to do it so there is very little that doesn't work in any given meal and Bringing into the house only what applies. This is definitely going to be an easy to keep up lifestyle to keep up past the 30 day mark. So far we have only had 2 meals that had anything in it that wasn't within the guildlines. (that's including my Brussetta today.) We know that this isn't a huge stretch for us. It is definitely helping us to be much more aware of what exactly is in EVERYTHING we buy. Which is a great thing.

I have some recipes that I have been using to make our snack food that I will put up. we did the crackers right off of the 100 day real food website, but I wan't pleased with how they baked. They tasted great. and it was probably operators error. We decided next time to roll them out thin and cut them with a play-doh cutter. Sounds weird I know, but I'll take photos and show you. It was Todd's Idea and actually makes perfect sense. (Not that you don't always babe!!)
Yesterday Cj and I did some experimental baking. We Have come up with a "Real Food" cookie recipe. The only questionable item in there is Semi-Sweet Cocochips. It's not quite perfected yet. It came out really good, but more Cake-ish in a way. I like a good chewy, cookie. so I think tomorrow we may head to the bulk food store to re-load on some missing ingredients and give it another go. I'm pretty sure I know what changes need to be made to adjust it. When I get it right I will post it.