Over reaching

A necessary grocery shopping trip came before I had the energy and time to make my own peanut butter.  So of course I bought some already made. And bought some pre-made granola too.  Though I still intend to try to make my own! The thing about buying stuff from the store is that all those preservatives I would like to get out of our diet lets the food last much longer than if we made it ourselves. I think a solution is that I need to get more efficient about having a meal schedule. Then I can plan to have things eaten before they go bad.

School started for me again and it comes with a nerve wracking drop off and pick up schedule for the kids. I need lots of help from Jeremiah to do this and I don't want to overburden our friend who's doing the childcare for us. So I feel guilty about the whole thing. But the first day worked out ok so here's hoping the routine becomes routine!

We had an appraisal this week because we're refinancing our house and the lady was taking pictures and asking questions about everything. She asked if we had a garbage disposal and I quickly responded "no! we compost!" and then felt like I was being all judge-y.  And the thing is, that's not even really true. We don't compost our food waste directly. Our compost bin is for things like avocado seeds and jack-o-lanterns and leaves. All of our food waste goes to feed our chickens.

What would we ever do without chickens? We absolutely need to keep chickens around, at least until the kids are older and capable of eating a full serving of food. And capable of keeping it all on their utensils and not all over the table and floor. It takes the guilt out of our wasteful eating since we have to feed our chickens something, so might as well be healthy food. At least somebody's eating it!