Normal After All

Morning chores

By request, two days of meals in our home. I was going to wait and do three days, just to round it out a bit more, but I haven’t been writing any of this down, and a third day might be a bit much for my poor addled brain, particularly since we was out real late last night whooping it up.

Friday

Breakfast: Eggs and sausage. Rye’s on an egg strike, so he had applesauce and sausage

Lunch: Lamb rib roast, green beans, baked potatoes, and kimchi

Dinner: Kefir/blueberry/coconut oil/egg yolk smoothies and sourdough toast

Saturday

Breakfast: Omelette with green beans, bacon, garlic, and blue cheese

Lunch: Chicken/sausage gumbo

Dinner: Leftover chicken sausage gumbo

Looking at these two days, I can see that our “boughten” calories include a couple tablespoons of coconut oil, the wheat berries for the bread (which I made), and the precious handful of blue cheese crumbles. Non-calorically, there were a few spices (gumbo), and salt. And my usual coffee. The rest of it was ours, including all veggies, meats, butter, blah, blah, blah. These two days are very typical for us, with the exception of the toast, which as I mentioned last week is a once-per-month-or-so treat. In Friday’s comments, someone mentioned that they couldn’t live without cheese, and I have to say that if we felt more flush, we’d buy a LOT more cheese. Yeah, we could make it, but the truth is, we do plenty and we can do only so much. We have to prioritize, and holy jeepers but there’s a lot of good cheese floating ’round Vermont.

Finally, I gotta reiterate that our diet is simply an outgrowth of our life. It’s a logical extension of the way we chose to live, how we wish to pass our days. I couldn’t do all the stuff I do around here if all I cared about was stuffing face.

Also, I remembered something else we buy in with some regularity: Olive oil. Couple gallons per year, I’m guessing. Also again, please remember that just because I haven’t listed something in the “boughten” category doesn’t mean we never buy it. I’ve only included stuff that is habitual. Like I said before, there are occasional diversions. Ah, I just thought of one: Popcorn. We have that once a month or so during winter months, usually along with a cup of hot chocolate.

See? We’re normal, after all.