The Year of No Processed Foods - Day One

Forget December 21st--today is the longest day of the year. Today we are 365 days away from packaged and processed foods. I shall dream of Diet Pepsi tonight.

For breakfast we had toast (with real butter) and coffee. Lunch had to be a bit creative as I have been on a bit of a kitchen strike since the 3 Christmas soirees we hosted--which includes no trips to the grocery store. Andy had made rye bread in the bread machine overnight, so I split a chicken breast, cooked it with some onion, then broke out some of my green tomato chutney and a tiny bit of extra sharp cheddar cheese, and piled everything on toasted rye bread. For a desperation scrounge, it was a really good sandwich if I do say so myself. Which worked out well as I did not have a back-up plan as I usually try to do when I'm experimenting wildly. I briefly flirted with the idea of trying to incorporate some pumpkin puree in there somewhere, but thought better of it. We'll save that sort of thing when it's been a month or two without soda or pretzels and we're starting to have hallucinations.....