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Monday, 5 March 2012

Quick and Easy Cheap and Healthy Menu Plan Monday: Enjoying My Food

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Posted: 04 Mar 2012 10:00 PM PST

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This month’s focus in “Eating Intentionally“* is on “Making Peace with Food“; or in my words, just enjoying it. Food is made for both our nourishment and enjoyment, and we often lose sight of that.

It, like all the other principles, can be very difficult to do. Sometimes we get so caught up in the questions of whether or not a food is good for us that we can’t just sit back, relax, and enjoy it for what it is.

Right now, I’m also in the middle of reading “The Good Fats Cookbook“, which goes into some detail about why a large portion of the foods available in our country are tainted in some way or another and are not as nutritionally developed as they used to be or should be. It’s enough to make me want to bury my head in the sand. But I’ve learned that there’s only so much you can control. I can’t single-handedly overhaul the agricultural system of the US. All I can do is what I can do, and leave the rest in God’s hands.

So I don’t stress too much (most of the time) about where every bite of food is coming from, and if it’s the ultimate in good health. Those things are important, but not worth stressing myself over. I buy organic and local whenever I can, and when I don’t, I don’t sweat it. I just enjoy the delicious food available to me.

So we’re going to enjoy our food this week. You?

Breakfasts

Pancake Apples – (recipe coming this week!)
Sunbutter Granola Bananas
Muesli
Waffle Sandwiches
Chocolate Sunbutter Smoothies and Toast

Lunches

Leftovers
Freezer Stash of Non-Allergenic Foods (for Certain Little Someone)
Sandwiches (egg salad/nitrate and nitrite free lunchmeat) with Great Harvest Bakery Bread

Dinners

Garlic Dill ~~Salmon~~ Flounder Steamed Carrots, Oven Fried Potato Wedges
Grilled Cheese, Watermelon
Individual Oven Pancakes, Bananas
Spaghetti with Garlic Alfredo Sauce (Tomato Sauce for my Certain Little Someone), Garlic Bread, Carrots, Fruit
Sausage and Kale Italian Zuppa (available in our free ebook!) (for reals this week)

Snacks

Nuts, Raisins, Cranberries
Popcorn
Gingerbread

In My Kitchen Today

AF Artisan Bread
Beans
Granola

*My concept of “Eating Intentionally”, and the 10 principles we are working through this year, come from the book “Intuitive Eating” by Evelyn Tribole and Elyse Resch. I highly recommend it – I don’t agree with everything in it, but it is a great read for anybody who has ever been on a diet and/or is considering going on a diet.