I think I got most of my insights around the SNAP Challenge in my first week of doing it (see my earlier blog post here). This week I see that it is more accurate to do this for a month, because the staples I got the first week took up such a large percentage of … More SNAP Challenge Lessons, Week 2
Our final SNAP Challenge Supper was tortilla soup, made from the bone broth of the chicken roasted earlier, along with leftover (frozen from earlier this week) shredded chicken, salsa, and most of our leftover items–sauteed onions, peppers, and garlic, the rest of the tomatoes, the rest of the black beans (not turned into the black … More Swan Song Saturday, SNAP Challenge Edition
I missed posting yesterday because I’ve been busy. My spiritual center has moved, and I’ve been over there yesterday and today unpacking and trying to get our Sunday School operations organized to be ready to teach our students by Sunday. So here is the laser update: Yesterday for lunch, I took the focaccia, split it … More Catch Up Friday, SNAP Challenge Edition
Not a lot of exciting new food for you in this post. Even after eating mostly leftovers yesterday, we still had a lot of leftovers! The last time I did the SNAP Challenge, I did have leftovers at the end of the week, which we ate the following week. But this time, we are going … More Rethinking Wednesday, SNAP Challenge Edition
As I wrote one of my posts during my first SNAP Challenge week, food waste is a big ecological problem. As much as I try to keep our eating green, I must confess to that bad behavior. I make a dish, but I don’t like to serve the same dish too many days in a … More Too-Many-Leftovers Tuesday, SNAP Challenge Edition
Meatless Mondays are a program to reduce the environmental impact of our eating while improving our health by committing to a primarily plants-based diet on Mondays. We’ve done this for years (not religiously….when it is a holiday or special occasion, I substitute a different day for our meatless regime), so of course I want to … More Meatless Monday
So here we are–starting our SNAP Challenge Take 2. This Sunday’s meal looks a lot like our Sunday meal on the first SNAP Challenge. For lunch, we had another green soup. However, this is not my squash soup, it is my faux cream of broccoli soup. I replace the cream with potatoes, which don’t have … More SNAP Starting Sunday
Starting tomorrow, we are going to start another installment of the SNAP Challenge, in which we will dine for a month on just the amount of money we would get from the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), known informally as food stamps. We did it for a week last month and had a good … More SNAP Challenge Shopping Saturday
I’m still reflecting on my experience with the SNAP Challenge. I do know that I’m really glad I did it. Here are some of the things I realized. Feeding people is one of my love languages. Are you familiar with the book The Five Love Languages: How to Express Heartfelt Commitment to … More Lessons Learned from the SNAP Challenge
The Town of Cary runs a Gallery Walk on the Final Friday of every month where galleries and town offices and businesses that display art (such as several restaurants and a local winery) stay open late to allow people to drop by and see the latest exhibitions. Since my son is an artist, we have … More Final Friday, SNAP Challenge Edition
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