New Year Food Resolutions? .
Reading some of the comments on the "Manliness" thread inspired me to write this.
Our eating habits have evolved greatly over the last 25 odd years of being together. When I first met the man he had a typical bachelor's apartment complete with a glass D/R table and black leather and chrome director chairs. His pride and joy in the kitchen was the toaster oven his parents had given him for his first apartment some 15 years before and his freezer was stocked with copious amounts of ice.
Enter me and we have a mahogany D/R table that seats eight, Phillip Stark chairs,"modern stove and fridge (OK. I admit that I stabbed the old refrigerator to death; manual defrost was just not on my agenda anymore but but I dinna shoot the original stove's deputy). And 3 different freezer units filled with bones, stocks/broths, homemade prepped dishes, flash frozen veggies and aromatics and of course meats on sale.
Yeehup we'll be ready for the revolution or zombie apocalypse, which ever comes first:B.
Oh and I replaced the toaster oven at my earliest convenience with a microwave oven which next became a convection/microwave oven which delights "our" lives more than the nuker did.
Along with the other accouterments, the man, gained a someone with an avid interest in changing how we eat so we could continue our Oscar and Felix battle for as long as possible. In moving, he recently tried to hide 4 cans of Chef Boyardee; 1 can survived. Every single can of Franco American gravy of whatever type, didn't.
More vegetables eaten, less processed foods and ingredients and finally less protein and carbs.
This year I've decided to try to eliminate as much sugar as possible from our diets. Inspired by an article in a local paper, I decided/decreed we should embark on a sugarless month and see where it takes us. That means his preferred store bought salad dressings are toast but his acquired taste for crystallized ginger and sugarless dried fruit will past muster.
Any want to do changes thought or planned for on your end?
Our eating habits have evolved greatly over the last 25 odd years of being together. When I first met the man he had a typical bachelor's apartment complete with a glass D/R table and black leather and chrome director chairs. His pride and joy in the kitchen was the toaster oven his parents had given him for his first apartment some 15 years before and his freezer was stocked with copious amounts of ice.
Enter me and we have a mahogany D/R table that seats eight, Phillip Stark chairs,"modern stove and fridge (OK. I admit that I stabbed the old refrigerator to death; manual defrost was just not on my agenda anymore but but I dinna shoot the original stove's deputy). And 3 different freezer units filled with bones, stocks/broths, homemade prepped dishes, flash frozen veggies and aromatics and of course meats on sale.
Yeehup we'll be ready for the revolution or zombie apocalypse, which ever comes first:B.
Oh and I replaced the toaster oven at my earliest convenience with a microwave oven which next became a convection/microwave oven which delights "our" lives more than the nuker did.
Along with the other accouterments, the man, gained a someone with an avid interest in changing how we eat so we could continue our Oscar and Felix battle for as long as possible. In moving, he recently tried to hide 4 cans of Chef Boyardee; 1 can survived. Every single can of Franco American gravy of whatever type, didn't.
More vegetables eaten, less processed foods and ingredients and finally less protein and carbs.
This year I've decided to try to eliminate as much sugar as possible from our diets. Inspired by an article in a local paper, I decided/decreed we should embark on a sugarless month and see where it takes us. That means his preferred store bought salad dressings are toast but his acquired taste for crystallized ginger and sugarless dried fruit will past muster.
Any want to do changes thought or planned for on your end?
