As I shared on facebook last week we’ve been working on a project where we record and photograph every single thing our family eats for a week. I’ve been posting a lot of our kids’ lunches lately, and it’s provoked some readers to ask…”Well, what do you eat?” So it was a lot of work and sometimes hard to delay taking that first bite until we took the picture, but we figured we would just share it all! And what we ended up with were a ton of photos so I am breaking up the results into three sections: breakfast, lunch, and dinner/dessert.
Now, based on some of the feedback I’ve gotten when I share school lunches on facebook I feel as though I need to preface these posts with a disclaimer:
These meals are just a brief snapshot of our lives, and while I am sure some will feel we ate too much of X and not enough of Y, please know that we do not claim to be perfect (who is?). We simply do our best to eat a wide variety of satisfying whole foods while also only eating enough in order to feel full. In most cases we took pictures of our plates before we started eating and sometimes it was the right amount of food, but other times it was too much or too little. We didn’t prepare a special meal plan for the project, we just captured what happened. And I’d also like to add that it’s much easier to make judgments about one’s eating habits when you see their meal photos all laid out on one page like this (while you are NOT simultaneously trying to race out the door to school or work or after school activities)!
So in summary, this is a typical week at our house and while we are always open to suggestions and feedback we ask that you please be respectful in the comments as we put ourselves out there like this. As always, our mission is to share our personal experiences to hopefully inspire other busy families to eat more real food. :)
I would also like to mention that most of what we buy is organic including everything from produce to grains to dairy so rather than me saying “organic” over and over a hundred times please just assume that most everything you see is organic.
Breakfast
Sunday Family Breakfast: Scrambled local eggs, local strawberries, organic bacon, homemade granola chunks, and water to drink.
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Most Mornings with/after Breakfast: I had a maple mocha 5 out of 7 days after breakfast and my husband had one cup of coffee with milk (no sweetener) most mornings at work. He also had herbal tea a few mornings instead of coffee.
Kid Breakfast Most Weekday Mornings: A homemade granola cereal and puffed whole-wheat cereal mix (1-ingredient store bought cereal – we usually get puffed brown rice, but it was sold out), bananas, and whole milk.
Weekday Breakfast for both Lisa and Jason (most days): Homemade granola with fresh berries (in the winter we use frozen berries), whole milk, and a glass of water. We eat the same thing most weekdays and like it. :)
Morning Snack for our First Grader: She’s the only one in the family who typically has an AM snack and it’s almost always oatmeal (by request) made with whole milk and topped with a drizzle of honey, cinnamon, vanilla extract, and raisins. She brings it to school in the pictured thermos to keep it warm until snack time.
Another Version of the Weekday Kid Breakfast: Homemade granola cereal mixed with a shredded wheat “biscuit” (Barbara’s brand), fresh berries, and whole milk.
Wednesday Breakfast for Jason: He was running late for work so he grabbed a banana, a Lara Bar, and some water before heading out the door.
Thursday Breakfast for our Preschooler: Our younger daughter doesn’t start until 9 A.M. so there is a little more time for something special…here she had plain whole-milk yogurt mixed with homemade berry sauce topped with granola and bananas.
Friday Breakfast for Jason and our Preschooler: No preschool on Fridays (and my husband happened to take that day off of work) so there was plenty of time to make oatmeal with whole milk, raisins, a drizzle of honey, a touch of vanilla, and a dash of cinnamon for them. I still had granola with whole milk and berries.
Saturday Family Breakfast: Whole-wheat banana pancakes (our 7-year-old made them on the griddle by herself…hence all the odd shapes!) with local strawberries, a little pure maple syrup, and water to drink.
Lunch
Kid Lunches
My kids’ lunches probably aren’t that much of a surprise since I often post them on Instagram and Facebook, but here is the week summary anyway.
- Saturday we all just had a random plate of leftovers or whatever we could find in the fridge (the 10-year-old’s bowl has leftover pulled pork in it).
- Sunday we were planning to have lunch at home, but our early morning gymnastics meet ran long. We were hungry, so we found a decent place nearby that sources ingredients locally. The 12-year-old had waffles with fruit, and the 10-year-old had eggs benedict with fruit (I ate the asparagus).
- Monday’s lunch for my 12-year-old is actually getting posted in the treats section as well. She went on a school field trip and wanted to get a bagged lunch like everyone else. She ordered the vegetarian one, but by the time her table was called only the deli meat sandwiches were left. So this entire lunch was pretty much a “treat” between the Rice Krispie Treat, chips and white bread, but a girl’s got to eat. And this was the best she could do for a picture for us LOL :)
- Monday my other daughter had a defrosted panini (with pesto, roasted bell peppers and cheese), sliced cucumber, oranges and homemade granola.
- Tuesday both kids had leftover Ricotta and Kale Quiche, apples, leftover pork tenderloin and a little salad.
- Wednesday is normally our “soup day,” and they both had homemade (defrosted) potato soup (from my first cookbook) with cheese to go on top, BLTs and apples.
- Thursday they had more of those defrosted paninis, a salad with cheese and apple, plain yogurt mixed with a little pure maple syrup and frozen raspberries and homemade granola.
- Friday is “make your own lunch” day at our house, and both kids had a variation of grilled sandwich, grapes and apples with peanut butter for dipping.
Adult Lunches
My lunches actually weren’t too bad this week (coincidentally) … no days eating a random assortment of snacks at the counter (or in the car)!
- Saturday I had mostly the same leftovers as the kids (pulled pork, corn, whole-grain crackers with tomatoes and salad).
- Sunday was when I took the girls out to brunch after the gymnastics meet and I had eggs benedict with asparagus.
- Monday I chaperoned the 7th-grade field trip and knew I would not be into the bagged lunch myself, so I carried around leftover homemade Butternut Squash Salad (with a little ice pack) and a Whole-Grain Pumpkin Muffin all day until lunch time. Once again, not only was I the only person who brought my own food, but I was also the only person taking a picture of it – a little embarrassing, but that’s okay!
- Tuesday I had the same leftover salad, but this time with leftover pork tenderloin pieces on top, a ricotta/orange/mint/honey toast on the side and a half a grapefruit.
- Wednesday I had leftover Cajun Alfredo with Shrimp (from my first cookbook) and sliced pears.
- Thursday I had a lunch appointment and ordered a Caprese sandwich with a salad on the side. I only hate half the sandwich and brought the other half home to my 10-year-old for her snack. :)
- Friday I had a light lunch of avocado toast (from my second cookbook) and some homemade popcorn (not pictured).
This is what my husband ate … we clearly had a plethora of leftovers on hand this week, which is not always the case!
- Saturday he had the same leftovers like the rest of us.
- Sunday he was on his own, so he just had a variety of snacks when he got hungry for lunch.
- Monday our 10-year-old made a second plate of her same snack (whole-wheat pita pizzas) for his lunch. I believe he ate more than what was pictured on this day, but this is the photo I got!
- Tuesday he had a big salad with some of my ricotta toast that I had made and a fried egg (with roasted bell peppers on top).
- Wednesday he had leftover cabbage rolls (from dinner) that had basically just fallen apart by then, leftover carrots and an orange.
- Thursday more leftover cabbage rolls with an apple.
- Friday he had whole-grain crackers and cheese, a grapefruit and some defrosted chili (from the freezer).
That concludes our lunches for the week.
Dinner
Our week of recording our meals kicked off with dinner at our friend’s house. We brought the dessert (pictured down below) and the rest of the food (burgers, salad, crackers with cheese & tomato relish, chips & dip and homemade popovers) was provided by others. I do technically consider the handful of chips each of us had a treat since they are deep-fried!
Family Dinners
This is what the rest of our dinners for the week looked like…
- On Sunday I made Butternut Squash Salad (with a homemade tahini dressing) and a Veggie Pasta Dish (that will be featured in my next cookbook!)
- Monday I made Ricotta and Kale Quiche, pork tenderloin and a salad for dinner.
- Tuesday we experimented with a Cabbage Roll Recipe (with sausage and whole-grain wild rice inside that ended up being too time-consuming and messy, but it was edible!) along with cooked carrots on the side.
- Wednesday I made the Cajun Alfredo Pasta with Shrimp (from my first cookbook).
- Thursday the kids had leftover pasta from the night before while the adults had a date night out (see below).
- Friday my husband made Shortcut Chicken Pot Pie for himself and the kids while I was out with friends (see down below).
Other Dinners (Out)
We had a couple of nights out mixed into the week.
- On Thursday Jason and I tried a new (to us) restaurant and had a mushroom and beet appetizer, scallops, chicken and a braised beef cheeks dish.
- Friday I went out with friends and shared the pictured appetizers with the table. My main dish was a salad.
Treats
On average we have a “once a week treat.” On occasion, we end up splurging a little more often. It’s nothing I stress about because I feel like we all eat pretty well (i.e., not highly processed) most of the time! Again, this is just a one week snapshot; things do of course vary somewhat from week to week.
- Saturday we went to a potluck dinner with friends and brought this platter of homemade whole-wheat cookies to share.
- Sunday (the day we woke up at the crack of dawn for a gymnastics meet) I let my 10-year-old get a double chocolate frappucino from the Starbucks in the arena. I ordered a latte with whole milk and one little packet of honey, not really a “treat”, but I happened to photograph them together!
- Monday my 12-year-old went on a school field trip and wanted to get a bagged lunch like everyone else. I also shared this on the lunch post, but her entire meal pretty much ended up being a “treat” between the Rice Krispie Treat, chips and white bread because they ran out of her requested lunch.
- On Thursday at our adult date night out, we ordered some cocktails (that were yummy, by the way).
- On Friday when I was out to dinner with some girlfriends, we were celebrating a birthday, so I shared a chocolate dessert with 6 others (I had two or three bites .. and it was good, too!).
And there you have it, a “Week with the Leakes!”
I feel bad you had to list that disclaimer. Of anything it makes me realize I still could do better with our meals. It is slowly coming for me and my family and your blog is helpful. I bought block cheese today and plan to shred it myself after your post last week. I have fresh jam from your post and now seeing your meals I may mix it in Greek yogurt as a treat.
Thank you for posting this. It is most helpful for the visual. Also, like stated earlier, I am sorry you had to post a disclaimer in the beginning. My question comes from your comment about eating until you feel full. I am working on this currently. In your picture of the eggs with bacon, strawberries and granola. The amount of bacon seemed more like “just a taste”. Is that amount typical? I am not being judgemental here, just trying to understand how others determine portion size. I guess bacon is not really something that fills one up, so maybe just a taste is sufficient, but I did not want to assume.
That’s a great question! I actually bought the bacon for a recipe and only had a small amount leftover…that’s the main reason you don’t see very much on my plate. In general though we do try to keep our meat consumption in check. Here’s a post explaining why: https://www.100daysofrealfood.com/2011/03/25/mini-pledge-week-3-meat/
Like all the others who have responded, I am so very appreciative of your efforts, Lisa. I have shared your blog with lots of friends. I’m a grandma now so I’ve lived though the little kid stage. Knowing what all the moms with little ones have to go through in a day, I’m even more impressed with what you are doing. I find your posts extremely helpful and inspiring. Keep up the great job that you are doing!
Thank you!! I really appreciate this. Our family is eating a lot better since I first found your blog about a year ago. And my packed school lunches have greatly improved as well, thanks to the information that you post. Just last week, my kids were wishing that we had cold cereal, and pulled out the granola I had made previously and said “We can eat this as our cereal!” I was surprised and pleased. I hadn’t offered it to them that way (only as a dry snack) because I didn’t think they would like it. But they did! I’m very pleased at the progress we are making and I owe so much of it to your blog.
I find that I can eat the same 3-4 breakfasts without wanting much variety. It’s lunch and dinner that I struggle with more. My husband likes lots of variety for dinner. Variety to him means not the same taste origin multiple meals in a row (no Italian three nights running) and not the same meat multiple meals in a row (no three nights in a row of chicken even if it’s different flavors.) I sometimes struggle with coming up with a good mixture of flavors within a week. So, all that to say I’m looking forward to your lunch and dinner posts. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you so much for all your hard work. We have slowly made changes to our eating and are seeing such great results. Your posts give me great ideas. Love, love, love! Thanks!
I actually did something like this for the past 2 summers and I posted a list of exactly what we ate for each breakfast, lunch and dinner AND included pictures and “HELPFUL TIPS”…. http://pinkcookieswithsprinkles.blogspot.com/search/label/3%20months%20of%20no%20shopping%202011
It was our challenge to go three months with no major shopping (we would allow ourselves $20.00 to spend a week on produce and we purchased a gallon of milk every other week). No other money was spent on food for that time frame and all of our meals were cooked from food storage ingredients and what we had in our freezers and what we grew in our garden. My goal was to show just how GOOD and healthy you can eat from your food storage and by cooking every meal from scratch!
ANYWHO, I love to see the creative and yummy things that other people make who try to eat REAL food and not very much processed stuff. You have an awesome and amazing blog and I always go away feeling INSPIRED by you!! Thanks for all you share!
Inspiring keep up the good work!! I love it!! Helpful hints!!
Thanks so much Lisa. I can’t wait to see the lunches – it’s been a challenge for me since we are trying not to eat processed meats. Last week was chicken salad, shrimp salad and pimento cheese which all take mayonnaise although I use it sparingly. We eat lots of salads in warm weather and soup in the winter. Your blogs are very helpful.
A tip to others about breakfast – your pumpkin muffins (pumpkin bread recipe) doesn’t use a whole can of pumpkin so I use that in your pancake recipe instead of bananas sometimes. Yummy.
Thank you so much for posting! It doesn’t look like much food to me, but I’m not sure if that’s related to dish size or what. Would you mind mentioning how many eggs (approximately) you eat when you do eggs for breakfast? Or, how much dry oatmeal you use to make a serving? I find that when I make eggs, I make 2 for me, and I’m still a little hungry, and I give 2 to my 2-year-old, and she begs for more food (I give her usually some yogurt or cheerios (we had 2 costco boxes in the pantry that i’m trying to work through… i hate wasting food))…
I know I’ve always struggled with portions, and my daughter seems to be a giant eater, so getting a good idea of how *much* food would be extremely helpful for me. So far, I’ve been mainly focusing on making sure that if my daughter’s going to eat a ton, it’s at least mostly healthy food, but I don’t think more than 2 eggs in a morning would be good for her!
I don’t know about Lisa, but I use 1/3 cup dry oatmeal for myself sometimes with berries or chopped apple mixed in. I also make a 1/3 cup dry oatmeal for my 21 month old son. Sometimes he almost finishes it and sometimes he only eats half. I’ve found that any he doesn’t eat at breakfast he’ll usually finish reheated about 2 hours later for morning snack. He loves! oatmeal. For your daughter you might try sticking with two eggs but add other food like the yogurt you mentioned and some sort of fruit to give her a larger nutrient variety at one meal. You may find that she eats larger amounts of food at different times of the day (i.e. maybe she eats a large breakfast, a medium lunch and a small dinner) and that’s perfectly fine. I myself am an all day snacker eating 4-5 smaller “meals” throughout the day.
I can speak to the granola – it is a LOT more filling than store bought cereal. I make Lisa’s recipe, and I eat about 3/4 cup of granola with fruit in the morning. When I was eating cheerios and other cereals, I was eating closer to 1.5 cups. Even with half the amount of food, I now stay full until lunch. Plus it tastes so much better!
Agreed!
When I make eggs just for me, oftentimes I’ll make one whole egg and one egg white. You get the added protein which keeps you satisfied, but not the cholesterol of the second yolk. I put it on a whole wheat biscuit with some cheese, and it’s your own breakfast sandwich! Keeps me full for most of the morning.
Tuxgirl – We find real food to be much more filling than the refined/processed stuff. Also part of eating real food is really listening to your internal cues and stopping as soon as you feel full…meaning not overeating at all. When you eat eggs do you eat anything on the side? I usually make 2 eggs per person as well, but if we have fruit, toast, and bacon there will occasionally be some leftover. For oatmeal I use about 3/4 or 2/3 cup milk and 1/2 cup oats.
My younger daughter is also a BIG eater. Most meals end with me telling her the kitchen is closed (poor thing!) but I do worry about her getting a tummy ache from eating too much. She can eat more than my husband and me more often than not. I’ve asked the pediatrician about it and he says if I tell her I am done serving food (and she’s clearly had plenty) and she leaves the room without bringing it up again then she’s fine. I hope that helps!!
Lisa, please let me know if you find anything about the whole grain puffs. I eat them, as well as offer those to my 1 year old son as a snack with goji berries almost everyday. Would hate to know that I’m feeding my family something toxic!!! Thanks again for all that you do, as you’ve greatly helped impact our families eating habits and making the transition to wholesome nutritous, foods!!!
Chrissy – I will…my husband is going to help me research the topic, but so far with only one unpublished study he does not think there is any reason for alarm. We are definitely going to look into it though and just like with any one food we won’t be relying on it solely for breakfast.
Thank you so much for posting this! I want to give this real food diet a shot and this helps SO much to see what a daily day is like for you all!
Thanks for sharing your breakfast with us! I am wondering if you have make ahead tips that help you get breakfast on the table when you are trying to get kids ready for school? I feel like we are always pressed for time and eat something quickly like sprouted grain toast with all fruit jam. But I feel like they get bored with eating the same thing. Both of mine will not eat oatmeal and it is so frustrating!
Try making a whole batch of Lisa’s waffles or pancakes and then freeze them. Everybody can pop them straight from the freezer into the toaster or toaster oven and then eat them on the go like toast….if they have fruit in them (we’ve done bananas, blueberries, and strawberries) there is no need for syrup. We have both of these items once a week, so I only have to cook them every two weeks. We get 16 waffles/16 pancakes out of Lisa’s recipes (1/4 cup batter each) and that’s 2 waffles or pancakes per person…two meals for a family of four cooked all at once. We also cook hardboiled eggs the night before…everyone gets two. Lisa’s Egg Casserole Bites also go great from freezer to toaster oven for a quick breakfast. Try finding hot cereal recipes that can be cooked the night before, “fridged”, then nuked for a minute or two in the morning to warm them up. If you aren’t leery of the microwave, all sorts of scrambled egg combos/quiches/frittatas can be “fridged” the night before and warmed up quickly in the morning. Except for weekends, I always plan for breakfasts that can be handled the night before. :)
What I do is the night before I set up every single thing possible (basically all the dishes, utensils, and non-perishable foods) so in the morning I literally just get out the milk and everything is all set up for me to make oatmeal…it takes 2 -3 minutes to cook. Since your kids don’t like oatmeal you could make pancakes ahead of time and just pull them out of the fridge and toast them in the morning. Same goes for french toast, waffles, etc. Cut up fruit and have it ready to go in the fridge. Set out the plates/napkins/forks/cups the night before. I really think having it set up saves a lot of time! I hope that helps.
My 16 yo daughter made Whole-Wheat Banana Pancakes for me yesterday for Mother’s Day. They were awesome!
Thanks so much for sharing. Your breakfasts look great; seeing them is inspiring. Looking forward to the rest of this series.
Love your blog, I live in Belgium so I am going to the recipes with a translator at my side, lot of words I don’t know :–)
I made already a lot of the recipes, and they all taste great!
Now I am searching for a slow-cooker but those are still very uncommon here in Europe…. for 2 persons what is a good size?
We have a 4 quart slow cooker and it’s great. It’s big enough to make large batches of things to freeze, but not too big that it takes up tons of storage space.
So glad you are enjoying the site! We actually have a 5 quart slow-cooker because we’ve found that if your crock pot is too small you can’t fit a whole chicken in there, which we cook frequently. You can always freeze the leftovers so I wouldn’t get one that is too small.
Amazing post as always. Thank you so much for openning your families life to the public. Keep up the great work. However, it was sad that people can not be civil and non-judgemental and you had to post our disclaimer/rules. Know you have a core group of people that support you and will not take you out at the throat like has happened before. Once again thank you…
Thank you so much for going to such trouble to post these pictures complete with descriptions. I was very intimidated by the idea of whole foods and the cost…but your site has made this a seamless transition. Thank you!
Thanks for this post! It makes me feel like I’m on the right track and I’m sure it helps everyone see how do-able and delicious healthy eating can be!
Thanks for your post! I love that it’s a whole week’s worth! Great pictures! Your blog really is an inspiration!
Thank you for sharing! I sincerely appreciate it. I just blogged my food journal the last 3 weeks and completely understand the anxiety over putting yourself out there! Thanks again! You have been a great inspiration to me and my family.
Seeing pictures makes it seem so much more doable, in my opinion. Not to mention it all looks so very good!
oh my gosh it all looks so yummy! more more!
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Looks great!! I really struggle with breakfast but you’ve made it look fantastic and easy! Truly an encouragment…thanks for posting it! =)
This is so great! I was actually going to e-mail you and ask if you would consider doing this exact project as a blog post in the future. So glad to see it…thanks!
Thank you for doing this!! I love that you keep it simple, and really appreciate the ideas I’m getting. Thanks a million!
I appreciate the ideas and love to see how others eat!
love this post!
Great post! I’ve got to hunt down some of those shredded wheat biscuits. :) We like Post Shredded Wheat and Bran which is two ingredients. I can get it with coupons, and it tastes great with little honey for breakfast OR for snack, dipped in a little mustard.
Dipped in mustard? Who would have thought!
Hi Lisa,
Thanks so much for sharing this. I find your blog truly inspiring – it has helped start my family on the path to better eating. I find that I am constantly reading ingredient lists in the supermarket now and pretty much putting everything back because apparently everything has something high fructose or hydrogenated in it. Who knew? Certainly not me. Thanks for enlightening me these past few weeks – and I am looking forward to reading your blog all the way through.
Every blog is so encouraging to me. Thanks for being so transparent.
Wow! Looks great! Why would anyone criticize those breakfasts? I love that your daughter eats oatmeal for snack! I eat oatmeal almost every morning. This may not be “organic”, but I microwave mine and it is done in three minutes.
After reading your blog one time, I was inspired to gradually change our eating habits. I am trying to think of food as sustenance and pleasure, rather than just pleasure. I can’t imagine any one being negative toward you. Thank you for what you do.
Thanks for the ideas! I will have to try the granola bars. Lisa have you tried the kashi cinnamon harvest cereal? It only has 5 ingredients and I figured its better than some of the other cereals out there. The only thing I saw as questionable was the evaporated cane juice?
I think the general objection to Kashi (aside from most of their products not being organic) is that they use at least some GMOs. Recently they issued a statement on their plan to eliminate all GMOs from their ingredients over the next # of years. I’m sure it can be found on the website.
I have not tried that cereal, but evaporated cane juice is basically sugar so it would depend how far down the ingredient list it is.
I love your web-site and I love your motivation behind it. From reading your blog, I understand you want to feed your family healthy foods because you love them. Me too. That being understood, I’m guessing you don’t know that puffed cereal is toxic. Lab rats die when they eat puffed cereal. To read more about it see Nourishing Traditions by Sally Fallon, p. 462. I would want to know if I was unknowingly feeding my kids something toxic and I would hope my friends would let me know if I was. I hope you take it that way!
I actually have that book right here and just read the page you suggested. We will definitely do some more research about this particular topic. Thanks for sharing.
I’d be interesting in knowing what you find in your research! After a quick google search, I only found the results of one, unpublished lab test.
I would also like to know as I eat puffed corn & puffed rice! My google search also only yielded an article about an unpublished study.
Just because one person says something – or even because it is published – by no means ensures that the information is correct. As a person with background in statistics working in the field of applied statistics, I am appalled at the flawed studies that make it into print. There are so so so many ways a researcher can make a flawed study – and when they do that, the foundations behind the statistics are completely incorrect. It’s not that people do it on purpose, but so few people truly understand statistics that even in studies published in blinded peer reviewed journals get it wrong sometimes… and in a small journal or book who want to send a specific message – it’s easy to see how things get fuzzy. Check out a very eye opening book “How to Lie with Statistics”… and if other people are only finding one excerpt from a book and 1 unpublished story… there is probably a reason for that.
On a different note – Good for you for publishing all of this!! It’s sad that people are so critical…it’s real life, not some pretend perfection. I’d love to see what the critics are feeding their family day in and day out! Sure, some people can get it 100% right part of the time, but no one does it 100% right 100% of the time. Or if they do, I’d be curious as to how the rest of their life looks. Live is a balancing act between eating right and doing the right things to raise a happy healthy family. And reality is exactly that – reality! Keep up the great work Lisa!!
I think it was sad that you had to preface your post but also a great reminder for people that you are opening up your personal private life to share this with people! If I had to post online about every single meal my family ate, gasp! Wouldn’t even want to imagine the commentary I’d get. So thank you for your genuine openness and hopefully people remember that. That being said, I really learn a lot from what you share and find ways to incorporate certain things into my family. For example, I absolutely love your granola recipe and the banana pancakes have become our favorite pancake recipe.
I would just like to second this comment all the way around! Sad you have to preface your postings, but happy you share with us your ideas. Keep it up!!
Agreed – Thanks for sharing!! Through any amount of naysaying, keep in mind there are that many plus many more that beleive in what you are doing and are so glad you’re sharing!!
Yum! Looks very tasty. I am super jealous that you have local berries; we probably won’t see them for another several months so we’re still using frozen, which just aren’t the same texture-wise. I look forward to the day my 2.5 year old will make the pancakes for me. :)
Thanks for your willingness to share so much about the food you and your family eat. Love the pictures!
I think it is wonderful and brave of you to post everything that you eat. It gives guidance to some of us that are new to this idea and a bit of inspiration that we are all far from perfect and some days are not laid out as ideally as we would prefer. The key is mindful eating. I appreciate your realistic outlook and desire to make the food your serve your family a priority, even when it is a challenge.