The kids are napping, I have sweet potatoes cooking (waiting to mash into some baby food for the littlest sweet potato) & so I am taking the time to sit & contemplate.
Dan and I decided to try and do our own vegetable garden this year...chemical free. Our first attempt at it & SUCCESS! I will post pics of the yummy bounty later. My husband is so proud of himself. We were a little disappointent in our green bean & snap pea harvest, not as much as we would have liked. We went out of town for a week & when we returned the peas were slumped over. Bummer. Tried to promp them up, but didn't help too much. What is doing quite well , are our tomatoes, cucumbers & cayenne peppers. . Nothing better than slicing up a good ol' juicy red tomato, just picked from the garden! Making my mouth water. We have 5 different tomotoes.(one of the five is a grape tomato plant) Why so many? Well for starters I LOVE tomatoes & with this being our first time & all, we weren't sure how many would survive. So if you would like some yummy tomatoes, give me a holla and I will be more than happy to share.
As you see I said our garden is chemical free, Dan really wanted to try it without the use of any added chemicals, which got us to thinking about all our other food. Also, we went to Colorado & stayed with my Aunt Patty, who eats all organic & informed us of all the partially hydrogenated oils, etc......that REALLY got us thinking. Thanks Aunt Mango! :) We started small and replaced simple things...now we have natural peanut butter, using butter & olive oil, whole wheat pasta, organic cereals, fruit bars & waffles. Nothing too drastic. We went to Whole foods to check it out & not in our price range for a lot of things. Found a few reasonable things. Dan & Kyle LOVE this organic blueberry flax granola. Dan eats it like cereal & Kyle munches on it as a snack; and it's not bad price wise. Like a box of cereal. In moderation we are slowly moving into the crazy organic, healthy eaters. The only thing we haven't changed it milk. I would love to, but at $5.99 a gallon for organic milk, yikes. That hurts. Not workable in our budget as of now. Ok people, fire! I am ready for some feedback.
**just a side note, as I was typing, Kyle came out of his room & informed me that he needed to "bee-wax" out in the living room with me. Who rules the roost here?
3 comments:
Hey! Nice blog lady! My friend Anne Marie and her hubby are on the more organic side and she was saying if you want to get the most chemical free for your buck, go with apples, potatoes and one other thing I can't remember at the moment. Apparently they suck up the pesticides the most of any produce item so they are the best dollar spent for 'organic'... ok, thats' all I know :-)
for us, organic milk is the only non-negotiable in our house. the hormones affect girls significantly, and many people blame those on why girls are maturing in elementary school! so, after discussing at length with our pediatrician, we've decided to fork over the money for the milk. i know it's OUTRAGEOUSLY priced, but that's the only organic we do as a MUST HAVE. (publix has it for 5.69 a gallon- but you dont have publix).
if other things are organic and are reasonably priced, we'll do it as well. i'm beginning to consider all dairy as a must-have...
maybe not for kyle but for hailey when she starts drinking milk? something to consider...
ah HA! i'm getting in on the beginning of your blog! eating 'whole' is something we are trying to integrate into our diets....and cleaning, and toiletries. everything but the food is usually more budget-friendly!
kate told me once that the 'root' fruit and vegetables are the ones to go organic on if your budget allows. i did organic milk with reese when she started drinking it, and so we just buy hy-vee's brand (which is locally made! even better!) in the 1/2 gallons just for her (liam too when he's older). we still drink 'bad' stuff. ;)
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