Welcome aboard!

As it is with most of my life, I find myself trying to squeeze a watermelon through a wing-nut.  Trying to get more things done than is probably useful, but hey...  that's my life!  The more things I accomplish on my to-do list, the longer the darn list gets!

Right now, it's the end of my first OFFICIAL day of changing my daughter's (family's!) diet for 30 days.  She will be - for all intents and purposes - a meat eating Vegan.  Ha, right?  Last Friday we found out that she has milk, egg, peanut and mustard (seriously? the only condiment she likes?!?) sensitivities, and today started Day 1 of her elimination diet.  What this means is for 30 days, I have to change everything I do to avoid those things in her diet.  And milk and eggs are EVERYWHERE....

I had really hoped to start this earlier in the day, so I could take more time, but the most important thing was to feed everyone - and get Bethany her vitamins - using the new diet requirements, which I did.  She packed a lunch with the leftover refried bean mix I made for dinner the other night, in a tortilla wrap, with Romaine lettuce.  Add in juice, natural applesauce, and potato chips, and she was off.  She had cereal for breakfast (Cheerios), with the Soy milk I got for her.  Bethany says it's not quite as tasty as the Almond milk, but it has tons more benefits comparatively. Once she got home, she had a few Gummy Bears for a treat (since she had to - temporarily - give up her beloved chocolate), and then snacked on the almond/raisins/dried cranberry mix I made her.  She needs protein!  Speaking of which, it would seem that - as delicious as they are - dried cranberries are an utterly useless food!  Tell me if I'm wrong, but there was nothing listed on the nutrition label...

Finally, for dinner my husband, Cody, defrosted 3 chicken breasts for me and washed the sweet potatoes.  When I got home, I cubed the sweet potatoes, and cooked them in EVOO with some cinnamon/sugar.  DELISH!  Once they were done, I plated them up, added a little fresh EVOO to the pan, and fried up the cubes of chicken in Shake-n-Bake that I'd had lying around.  Microwave a few cans of spinach, and it was a great dinner.  I even got 3 kisses from my youngest, Hans, who foolishly bet the cook that I didn't add cinnamon and sugar to the sweet potatoes.  Hmmm...  he needs to stay away from Vegas.  Forever.

I realize that this still doesn't really say anything about me or why I'm doing this, but it's late, and my brain is done.  To quote George W., "I can't thinkificate right now!"  LOL

Here's to another day!  And remember - no egg is too tough to crack!
-Kris