My cookie ideas are going to be an extra challenge now. I have decided that I will go gluten-free for two months.
This decision comes from a lot of thinking and a tip from my cousin- that going gluten-free might greatly assist my dreams of having children. As far as I know, I am not gluten intolerant. But I have seen studies that may show that not eating gluten can greatly increase fertility. I don't know what will happen. I do know that there is a bigger plan out there, and maybe this is my way of being guided. At the very least, I will have a chance to do lots of experiments with new recipes, ingredients, tastes, and who knows what will happen!
I will be going to the co-op today to get some ingredients in bulk form, and hopefully they have what I 'think' that I need. There are so many strange flours and starches in gluten-free recipes. I have no idea of cost or if the store will even have them. I may end up coming home with a bag of Bob's Red Mill Gluten-Free Flour Mix!
Also, from my last post, here is how to make one chicken last for many, many meals:
Day 1: Roast large whole chicken with tons of root veggies for dinner
Day 2: Slices of chicken with leftover veggies for lunch, chicken marsala pizza for dinner
Day 3: Leftover pizza for lunch, buffalo chicken pizza for dinner
Day 4: Leftover pizza for lunch, chicken soup for dinner (made with boiling the carcass in water, straining broth out, then adding the rest of the meat back in with veggies)
Day 5: Leftover soup for lunch, stretch out soup with more veggies and black beans
Day 6: Leftover soup for lunch. Leftover soup for dinner.
Day 7: Leftover soup for lunch. Leftover soup for dinner with extra side dishes (didn't I say black beans are amazing?!)
Day 8: Leftover soup for lunch. Just over a week with one chicken!
And that is how we keep grocery bills down!
This decision comes from a lot of thinking and a tip from my cousin- that going gluten-free might greatly assist my dreams of having children. As far as I know, I am not gluten intolerant. But I have seen studies that may show that not eating gluten can greatly increase fertility. I don't know what will happen. I do know that there is a bigger plan out there, and maybe this is my way of being guided. At the very least, I will have a chance to do lots of experiments with new recipes, ingredients, tastes, and who knows what will happen!
I will be going to the co-op today to get some ingredients in bulk form, and hopefully they have what I 'think' that I need. There are so many strange flours and starches in gluten-free recipes. I have no idea of cost or if the store will even have them. I may end up coming home with a bag of Bob's Red Mill Gluten-Free Flour Mix!
Also, from my last post, here is how to make one chicken last for many, many meals:
Day 1: Roast large whole chicken with tons of root veggies for dinner
Day 2: Slices of chicken with leftover veggies for lunch, chicken marsala pizza for dinner
Day 3: Leftover pizza for lunch, buffalo chicken pizza for dinner
Day 4: Leftover pizza for lunch, chicken soup for dinner (made with boiling the carcass in water, straining broth out, then adding the rest of the meat back in with veggies)
Day 5: Leftover soup for lunch, stretch out soup with more veggies and black beans
Day 6: Leftover soup for lunch. Leftover soup for dinner.
Day 7: Leftover soup for lunch. Leftover soup for dinner with extra side dishes (didn't I say black beans are amazing?!)
Day 8: Leftover soup for lunch. Just over a week with one chicken!
And that is how we keep grocery bills down!
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