Sustainable life

After my husband and I got married we were a couple of kids just playing house. Sadly I could make a couple of really good things, meatloaf, spaghetti sauce, cookies, vegetable lasagna and bread. As for the rest of our meals well lets just say we ate Hamburger helper and tuna casserole more than anyone ever should. As we have grown into a real family I have have found a true love of cooking  and even my company dishes ten years ago are rarely ever made. I have a library of cookbooks that are well used because to me there is nothing more satisfying then a good meal at the table with the people you love.

This is not a post about my love of cooking but of our belief in sustainable eating. We have given up fish due to the over fishing. There is no reason for us to eat Alaskan salmon when we live in central Texas, we no longer eat those cans of tuna. I love tuna fish sandwiches but the tuna are being over fished and really does every store in American need an aisle of canned Tuna? No. In fact it makes me sick. We are killing the ocean and if we don't stop the over fishing it will be the end of us. So I know it is a small stand of four people but we are doing our part. Really you should to. We have started buying all of our pork, beef, eggs from the farmers market. I need to find a farmer who sells chicken and I know of a couple but one is a CSA that $72 a month is a little high for us. I just want to be able to buy a couple of whole chickens a month for my family. I love the farmers that we buy our meat from and the others just don't have chicken ready yet. They are so proud of their meat and always remember me when I come to the market and asked how my meat turned out, how my family is doing and if we had a good visit. We are welcome to come to the farm to see the animals. I don't mind spending our money on good food and paying the proud farmers for their hard work.

We also have given up those awful boxed meals, most processed foods. I read all of the labels, so no High Fructose Corn syrup (I don't care what the commercials say it is a very chemical and unnatural process to turn corn into syrup), and I have a rule of thumb if I don't know what an ingredient is or I can't pronounce it we don't eat it. We eat pretty healthy and we are proud of what we are teaching our children about food.

We are not all the way to our goal of living a sustainable life we have a dream of a small farm where we raise all of the food we eat. So every house we live in we put in an edible garden. This house we have planted 6 fruit trees, with plans to plant three more, we have three kinds of grapes, three kinds of berry bushes, three pineapple guava bushes, two beds of asparagus. Theses are the things that the next owner will inherit from us. I hope they like fruit. Really in planning to feed our family and friends we are helping the earth find a balance even a small one in our backyard.

This is who we are, this is who I am and I am proud of the decisions we are making and look forward to the plans we have made coming true.

God is Good