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Has it really been this long? Sigh. I'm still not eating chips but it hasn't made any difference in my weight. Maybe chips are caloriefree after all!

These are chocolate peanut butter cups I made for SS for Christmas. I've been trying to have a chocolatefree day for a week now and it isn't working. So Mondays are the day. I want to slowly work up to only having chocolate once a week.

Chipless: 258 days

Day 78: More Spelt in Our Food

I tried out the spelt again. Someone kindly sent me Dreena Burton's Peanut Butter Cookie recipe. She mentioned that she had use spelt instead of the flour called for in the recipe. So I did too but I didn't add the extra spelt flour as she recommended, and I suppose I should have because they didn't hold together too well. I also left out the molasses because we don't have that here. I only used ½ dl maple syrup (I couldn't make myself use more, it's so expensive) and ½ dl of regular syrup. We didn't notice the maple syrup, so I'll try just regular syrup next time and leave out the sugar. I made 8 cookies but they were so big that I'll try making 16 next time.

I made cinnamon raisin bread. I substituted 1 dl of spelt flour for the regular flour and next time I'll try 2 dl. Taking the bread out 5 minutes early wasn't enough because it was a bit burnt on top.

I need to get outside more!

Day 74: Banana Loaf

Not much to report. SS is still going here and there, so he hasn't eaten at home very often, and I'm just eating sandwiches and leftovers.

I used the spelt again. SS's grandmother sent home 2 bananas. She likes them almost starting to spot whereas I like them just turning completely yellow. By the next day they were quite spotty and I had no desire to eat them. So I made a banana oatmeal spelt loaf. I'm still using white wheat flour as we ease into using the spelt. I took my trusty old high school home ec banana loaf recipe and adapted it. Turned out quite well.

This week's journey step is not eating more than one row of chocolate a day. Will be difficult to remember!

Day 53: Macaroni Casserole

If I wasn't the one who 'developed' the recipe I would have said that there was something missing from it. I was right there interfering overseeing advising my SS on how to make the macaroni casserole but somehow it turned out different! It was good though. He would prefer to have a written recipe to follow rather than a verbal recipe. (Also he didn't seem to like it when I would stir, or mix, or something)

We have talked about trying to eat healthier. He doesn't need to be any skinnier, but though we don't eat too much junk processed food compared to most people we know, there are additives and preservatives in some of our food. This will be a struggle because finding suitable food in this city that we can afford will be a challenge.

To start off with something easy I suggested crackers because we don't really eat them that often, and usually the ones that we buy are just for snacking. We will finish the ones we have. If we 'need' crackers I would like to try to make some.

I jokingly started listing all of the foods that we would need to give up and that we could try deleting something once a month. He thought that that was a bit slow so we will also finish off the sugar free drink concentrate and not buy more. I think that this will be harder for him as he drinks it daily. He didn't like the idea of giving up white flour so I guess that that will be further down the line, if at all.