Day 5 - Reality vs. Toni

As much as I try to avoid it, one must occasionally have a brush with reality, though living in it is entirely optional. (Toni-ism)

REALITY: Unless we are going to spend the month grazing on the grass that is currently buried under ice & snow, everything we consider "food" is processed somehow--cleaned, cut, milled, pasteurized, baked, blended, chopped, frozen, canned, etc. A brighter person might have selected summer for this experiment so one could grow their own vegetables--and in fact, a brighter person would have figured out how to grow said vegetables instead of losing them to bugs and weeds--but it was my idea to launch into this in February, so we need to clarify things a little.

The guidelines we're working from now:

1. Does it look like food?
2. Could we have made it ourselves?

#1 encompasses vegetables & fruit in their normal, found-in-nature (though not necessarily in our garden) state, and meat.
#2 allows things like flour, butter, WINE, cheese, etc. (NOTE: I did not say "can." I said "could" in the more "if-we-knew-how-and-the-cooking-gods-were-in-a-good-mood" sort of sense)

We have also opted to allow the chocolate soy milk we drink in the morning for protein. Andy is lactose intolerant & I am allergic to milk, so we're making this a technical exception because, hey, it's our experiment.

Now if I could just figure out how to make cinnamon bears.....