The recipes I share here are fast and simple and cheap and...
gluten-free and dairy-free.
Cooking them might even make you feel the way I felt while swinging on this swing in the woods.
And when I say fast, I'm talking speedy fast.
The -
We were out at the park all afternoon and now we're starrrr-ving...
I'm changing that diaper 'cause there's poop exploding out the top...
Why are you running in circles at my feet while I'm stirring the pot?...
Opps, you ran yourself right into the wall...
And now you're galloping in circles on broom sticks...
Oh no, you tripped and blood is pouring out of your nose...
Now everyone is crying in unison...
- kind of fast.
Call it chaos. Call it a three ring circus. Call it what you will. But heaven knows the days of quiantly presented dinners with a main entree and two sides on the plate are a distant memory. Hopefully one day they will resume. But not today.
So today - we cook, we laugh, we dance. (And we try our best not to go insane.)
Did I mention that these meals are cheap?
I mean really cheap. Not the - cheese food, bleached white flour, canned green beans - kind of cheap. Cheap in the sense of dollars and cents.
In this household, we don't like asthma, we don't like eczema, we don't like painful guts, foul smelling poops or diarrhea. And so we're on a crazy diet that helps us all to be fresh, alert and ready for life.
Say hello to the wacky world of gluten-free and dairy-free nutrition.
In the not so distant past, this world has gotten very well acquainted with our pocket book. The time has come to find a way to eat healthy and life-giving food on a budget.
A $150 per week budget to be specific. This includes all food from the grocery store and all restaurants. I've even said that all stops to the liquor store are included in that figure, but I'm starting to rethink that.
(Update: I have rethought that. It took me a few short weeks to realize that food and wine under $150 per week is impossible. Therefore, liquor store items are not tallied along with the weekly food totals. Buying enough food to keep this hungry bunch satisfied is hard enough on a strict budget.)