A Slow Goal

Due to reading In Praise of Slowness and some other thoughts that have been swimming around in my head lately, I've decided to go for a new goal.

My new goal is to cut out pre-made or over-processed foods. I guess I don't know exactly how to define the type of food I'm talking about. I'm talking about things that people made from scratch 30 years ago but now we depend on mixes or frozen boxes for.

This isn't a big leap for us; I already cook nearly every meal we eat at home and most of our grocery shopping is already from the perimeter of the store. I haven't bought frozen pre-cooked chicken fingers or bagel bites since we've been married (5 months today!). Those used to be my go-to lunches, so if I can cut those out, it won't be hard to stop the rest. I already no longer buy canned vegetables, they're either fresh or frozen fresh, and we don't buy pre-cooked meats other than pizza toppings. So for us this means no more Bisquick pancakes (I've made pancakes from scratch many times, so not a biggie), no more brownie or cookie mixes (everyone loves these anyway), and no more Kraft mac & cheese.

The last one will be the hardest, I eat mac and cheese for lunch all the time. Don't get me wrong, homemade mac&cheese is no stranger to me, this is just one area where convenience has me so won over it will be hard to break the habit.

Thinking on this same topic last night I asked Shawn what he thought about getting rid of the microwave. I don't think that idea went over too well.