What To Do With Ten Pounds of Tomatoes: Make Super Awesome Ketchup

We get the bulk of our produce from a local organic farm through a CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) program. Once a week, we go to the farm and pick up our share of veggies, fruits, and berries. We get different things each week, depending on what's in season and what's available. I love it. We've gotten things we never would've tried otherwise, and before we started this diet, the desire to eat things before they were wasted got us to eat more vegetables.

This week, I was picking out tomatoes and one of the workers explained that the pretty red tomatoes were the ones available for CSA members, not the less-pretty heirloom tomatoes. She said the heirlooms were being boxed up to be sold for making sauce. They were the blemished, the scarred, the rejects. They were $15 for 10 pounds.

Lemon(less) Herb Chicken

I've been making lemon herb chicken thighs in the crock pot every few weeks. I do a big batch and freeze the extra. They reheat in the oven really, really well. I thought they might get dry, but they don't. I planned on making a bunch tonight, because I'll be out of town for about a week and I know James likes them and will eat them while I'm gone. The only issue was, I forgot to get a lemon when I went grocery shopping. I tweaked a few things, and you know what? They are super yummy anyway. And of course, they are SCD legal. So I thought I'd share.

Finding SCD Recipes

I've been thinking about starting to do the whole "meal planning" thing. As opposed to what I normally do, which is take out whatever meat I think will thaw fastest and throw together some veggies. Clearly, I need some planning. I need some kind of routine, so I will remember to pull meat out of the freezer well before I'm wanting to cook it. Also, some of our veggies from the CSA have died in the fridge, and that's just not acceptable to me. The whole point is to eat local, fresh, in-season produce.

The Meat of the Matter

I've watched tons of documentaries on food. Food and medicine; what's wrong with the standard American diet; what happened to family farms; why diets don't work...I can't get enough. It's a topic that's near and dear to my heart (and family). These documentaries inspired me to start juicing and join a local community supported agriculture (CSA) program, which provides us with fresh, organically grown vegetables on a weekly basis.

Is it Hard? Are You Crazy?

When people ask about this new diet we're doing, and hear us talk about it, they usually look at us with wide eyes full of disbelief. "Isn't that hard?" they ask.

Spicy Turkey Sausage

I can't believe it's been almost a month since I posted! We've been so busy. James has been sticking to the Specific Carbohydrate Diet for three weeks now. All of my food preparation has paid off. I've been keeping at least sausage and soup in the freezer, and we've only run out twice. So whatever else is going on, there is something James can heat and eat if he gets hungry.

Homemade Chicken Soup

I'm up late tonight catching up on laundry, freezing chicken soup, and prepping zucchini to be cooked tomorrow. According to the phases from SCD Lifestyle, zucchini is allowed in the phase after the introductory phase, but it must be peeled, seeded, and cooked. The introductory phase lasts two to five days. I want to make sure we have some foods for James to eat once the introductory phase is over, so I'm getting a head start on some of them.