Not much going on towards this project. I feel like I have a good handle on the recipes I’ll be using, and I’ve been doing what I can to test food preservation methods (mainly freezing things so far). However, I have come to realize that these 75 days that I’m going to soon be facing will be busy at best and difficult at their worst! With the restaurants and most grocery store convenience foods off the plan, I’ll really need a good plan each week for meals, and will need to spend a considerable amount of time getting things made ahead when possible.
One thing I know my kids are going to want is ice cream. I thought I was good there — last year my sister sent me an ice cream freezer she wasn’t using. However, my youngest loves chocolate syrup on his ice cream. Have you read the ingredients on a bottle of that stuff lately? If not, run to the refrigerator and do so right now — it’s shocking how horrible that stuff is! That, along with so-called pancake syrup, is pure sugar and corn syrup and high fructose corn syrup and flavorings and colorings. Hardly a natural ingredient in them. My youngest and I will use pure maple syrup, but I’ll be making fruit syrups for the others. And hopefully I can convince my son to just eat chocolate ice cream instead of drowning it in chocolate syrup as well.
Surprisingly, I think the vegetables will be the easiest part of this program. We’ll be using what we get in our CSA box, or from the garden or farmer’s market. It’s easy enough to steam them or grill them! The other stuff will be the chore of this program.
75 Days of Summer 