In Stages

Hey! Long time, no "see"!  I know, that's my fault, not yours. I have had little time for blogging (or much of anything) lately. Between everything I have going on, I should be able to find some time, though so I am going to try.

You see, normally I am an "all or nothing" type of person. Either I can clean everything exactly the way I want it now, or I don't do anything at all. Either I blog every day and promote the blog and read other's blogs, or I don't. Either I eat healthy... well you get the idea.

I am going to try to start doing things in stages. Stage one - write a blog every so often. Clean for 10 minutes when I have the time. And eating... well that's why I sat down to write.

You all know I was trying to do GAPS. And then I wasn't. I couldn't do it all exactly the way the book says to do it. So I stopped. I went back to full SAD (Standard American Diet). You know, fast food, convenience food, cereals, hot dogs and potato chips.

So my first stage will be not eating out. I don't mean restaurant .. that almost never happens, LOL. I mean take out and fast food. I shouldn't be doing it for more than one reason. But I do. What happens is I say we are only going to eat from scratch. Then, when we have a bad day or we're out later than we expect or whatever, I have nothing to just throw together... so we end up with take out.

My solution will be we don't have to eat from scratch. I will also try not to just do all pre-package. That would be my all-or-nothing solution. My stages solution will be that breakfast and dinner will be cooked, using a combination of real, fresh ingredients and convenience items. I can buy bread, frozen potatoes, frozen veggies, etc. But I have to cook the meat, eggs and whatnot. Sandwiches for the kids for school, and for me, yogurt and apples or something light. I never did like a heavy lunch, anyway. And I don't have to make the yogurt!

In the past, once we started down the path of not all from scratch, (including baking bread and making yogurt), we would be down to hamburger helper. So this time, stages! I can do it!

Anyone else have all-or-nothing-itus?

God's Blessings on your home!
One Christian Mom