Going hardcore

So we’ve been doing a pretty good job about half of the time.  Part of the problem is that we are still using up a lot of the stuff in our cabinets.  Another part of the problem is that we needed more motivation.  Lucky for us lent is coming up and we need to give something up for 40 days.  Here’s the catch… we will be in Mexico for my birthday/spring break the last week of lent.  I’m pretty sure it will be impossible for us to stick with unprocessed at the resort so we decided to start lent early. 

Starting TOMORROW we will be going completely unprocessed 6 days a week.  For my non catholic friends… Sunday’s don’t count during lent because Sunday’s are supposed to be a day of celebration.  In order to get ready for this I went through the cabinets yesterday and piled up everything that was processed.

 

After it was all said and done, there was not much left in our cabinets.

And yes... those are Girl Scout cookies on the shelf.  You can't make me get rid of those... I'll save them for Sundays.

 

I texted my neighbor and told her to come grocery shopping at our house.  Tom will also take some of this stuff to the fire station.   The only thing Tom was not willing to part with was Cheddar jalapeno Cheetos that he assures me he will finish before Tuesday.

 

So since there is no food left in our house we finally made the trek to Whole Foods.  We had avoided Whole Foods for the past few weeks for a few reasons:

1.       It’s in Harbor East.  Parking is a pain in the butt.  The store is small and crowded because it’s in the city.  Not ideal shopping conditions when you have to read labels on everything you pick up!

2.       I had kind of built Whole Foods up in my brain as this magical place that would have everything I wanted to make going unprocessed easier… I was afraid it would let me down.

BUT… Whole Foods did not let me down.  They had everything we had been looking for… unprocessed mayo and ranch dressing was probably the most exciting (because making your own mayo is almost impossible to get right the first time… and I needed the ranch so that I could have unprocessed buffalo chicken dip).  They also had unprocessed bread flour!!!!  You mean all of our bread doesn’t have to feel like a brick???  Nope.  Now we can hopefully make something a little tastier then whole wheat bread.

Hopefully this 40 day kick will be enough to get us started on embracing an unprocessed diet and force us to find healthier substitute for some of our favorites (like pizza and Chinese food).

Stay tuned!