The next two days I'm going to focus on probably two of the BIGGEST ideas that have changed the way I think about my personal response to making a home - and tonight it's all about food.
Well, truly, it's half about food and half about priorities. You see, once upon a time I would have done just about anything to save money. And don't get me wrong, I still love to save money, but I've realized that there are some things in every household that are the 'breaking points'. For us, that's food. If I spend the money to stock our house with lots of well-loved foods, ensuring that we never have a frantic 'everyone is hungry and what am I feeding them?' moment then the rest of life just seems to be that much less worrisome.
For me, this pretty much translates into lots of meat in the freezer, cheese, milk, all the spices I need to make our favourite meals, fruit for quick and healthy snacks and a few convenience foods in the cupboards. I can pop out to pick up shampoo; I can wait a few days (or weeks) without q-tips if I have to, but when 5 o'clock rolls around and I have two shrieking children clinging to my legs I better have a meal at my fingertips and not, for example, just be starting on a lengthy process of making my own tortillas.
This is why it's a major problem that we're out of bread and cheese, and why I'm currently waiting for bread dough to rise and scanning grocery sales.
ReplyDeleteThere's a subtle art to balancing "I want my family to eat the best unprocessed nutritous food!" and "Sometimes we have ten minutes to make lunch and I'm exhausted."