Courageous Joy

Saturday – 1 April 1, 2006

The day began at 2 a.m. I had great hopes of baking bread, making pizza sauce, spaghetti sauce, cookies, peanut butter cups and ice cream. It didn’t work out that way.

Mike wanted to change the oil on both cars. I took the opportunity to go commissary shopping. While there I priced the produce items I bought this week through the produce co-op. I spent around $107.00 at the co-op; at the commissary the same produce would have cost $231.34. AND I didn’t have to pay the surcharge or tip the bagger at the co-op. I saved $124.34 on produce by buying through the co-op. Thank you Heather…what a blessing.

My big finds at the commissary today were the organic hamburger and the tomato paste with only one ingredient “tomatoes”. YES! I also stocked up on PEAR juice. Zander used to drink apple juice like it was water. It is a no-no on stage 1 of his program. They suggested Baby Pear juice instead. The first time I gave it to him he literally spit it in my face. One day he got desperate when Stacia was drinking it and said it was good juice…and since then he calls it apple juice. I’m nervous to try the apple juice now that we are on Stage 2. I think we’ll keep doing pear juice at home and if he gets apple juice while out that will be fine. Of course, if he drinks real juice again he is bound to wonder WHY Mom’s apple juice tastes so funny. {G}

Back at home I was about to begin my bread, sauce, ice-cream, cookie baking spree when Mike noticed the steaks coming out of the bag. He asked if we could grill…and so I took a break and we had yummy steaks with “Chili seasoned Sweet Potato fries”, French fries, “Churches honey biscuits” – not much like the real ones but good, a great salad and fruit. THEN I made the pizza sauce and the spaghetti sauce is still simmering. I decided I’d try bread and cookies tomorrow and we’ll make do with the ice cream we have left from last week.

I’m still trying to figure out the software for Shop Natural co-op. I am supposed to be able to get it set up so each member can input their own order – which will save me HOURS. I just need to get it figured out. I printed out the manual tonight and if I can’t figure it out, I’m sure Mike will by tomorrow night.

Kelly, not sure what I’m doing with carob/chocolate. I am not against either…..I am leaning to chocolate because we LIKE it and we’ve given up so much these past few weeks that we like. I’m about to begin looking into flax seed and flax oil….as Jamin read that he needs flax oil. I think I’m winning them over…..I’ve still not brought out the vegetable sausage patties…..or the turkey bacon…I thought those would be treats but they seem to view them as a threat. The list of ingredients is about 4 inches long and it killed me to spend real money for something so obviously fake…but I did to quell the bacon revolt.