Everybody, meet Liz - The Ice Cream Diarista. Liz, meet everybody.
There. Now, don't you feel better?
Liz spreads her fabulous brand of Mommy And General Life Wisdom over at My Ice Cream Diaries. I first met Liz when her family moved away from my Hometown, into my New Town. (Hehe...leeeetle joke. My church met in Newtown. heh.) Small world, right? To make the world even smaller, it turns out that Liz and her crew lived within a mile of my grandfather, back in my hometown. Add to that the fact that her two youngest children were the same age as my two children, AND that they played Really Really Well together...and you've got the basis of our friendship. The additional treat of finding a friend who both blogged AND was a crafter? Well...my dear, dear friends....it just doesn't get much better than that. Oh, the hours we spent huddled on my couch trying to teach ourselves how to make granny squares.....or the middle-of-the-night sewing playdates where we tore old clothes apart and put them back together, Frankenstein-style, to make clothes for our daughters....or the time she showed up hours after the sun went down to help me clean my house after the movers had taken all of our belongings away...good times, y'all. Very, Very Good Times.
And now I've moved away from that New Town, back to my Hometown, and she's moved away as well, on to bigger (and beachier) adventures in North Carolina. I'm seeing a North Carolina vacation in my future.....but that is neither here nor there. Right now, we are introducing Liz!
This morning, on Facebook, I saw that Liz had announced a month-long Real Food Experiment. I begged her to come on over to Suburban Housewife Uprising and share her journey with us. I'll let her explain her experiment...but I'm really excited to see how this month goes. I told my husband about it, and while he was really happy for our friend, he responded, "That's going to be EXPENSIVE. The more processed the food is, the cheaper it is." I think that, right there, is why Cheez Doodles are considered a starch, and ketchup is counted as "fruit and/or vegetable" in our school lunches.
Please help me make Liz feel welcome!
First, Hi Liz!! Good luck with your experiment! (We were doing pretty well...until preggo struck, and we've added back a few goodies...like tortilla chips....and the occasional candy....oops...)
ReplyDeleteSecond....LO GUNG!!! Real Food is NOT more expensive, ESPECIALLY when you factor in cost/daily allowance of vitamins, and lower medical costs. (Remember, I lost 20 pounds last year by eating food I made myself, and going out running a few times a week??) Plus, you can't live on Cheez Doodles, they're pure cash suck on your budget.
Thanks for the intro, Aunt LoLo. And I have to agree with Myrnie that eating whole can be very cheap, if you stick to the basics. I will have to do a cost analysis post later. ;)
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