I think I have this figured out finally. In order to not eat processed food, one must learn to plan ahead. If one is hungry at 5:45 and wants to have dinner at 6:00, one can't just pop a frozen pizza in the oven (Or one can't until I figure out how to make my own frozen pizza) or open a can of soup (Or one can't until I get over my fear of the pressure canner and make my own soups). Yesterday at noon I put a pork roast in the crock pot so it could cook on low and be ready for dinner. I think that might have solved my crockpot problems--whether it's me or this crockpot, nothing ever survives being cooked on high even if it's just for 4 hours EXACTLY like the book claims. It's 3:30 now and I just took some shrimp out of the freezer. In the morning, I'll set some beans to soak for dinner tomorrow night. Tomorrow for lunch we'll have leftover pork roast. As long as I spend much of my day thinking about food, we're fine.
Housewives of old must have been masters of organization. In the Little House on The Prairie books, which I'm greatly identifying with lately, there was a wash day, a baking day, etc. etc. etc. I can see that. There have been days when it feels like I didn't ever leave the kitchen. Baking bread can be an all-day affair and it turns out that if you forget and leave bread dough rising, there isn't a finite rising threshhold--or at least it isn't exceeded before the dough drops onto the counter. I am now amazed that the saying is "greatest thing since sliced bread." It really should be, "greatest things since bread you didn't have to bake yourself!"
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Toni & Andy,
Here is a different bread using nearly unprocessed ingredients:
http://www.rockinrs.com/Living%20Cookbook/Wine%20Bread.htm
or you could grind your own wheat into flour and make:
http://www.rockinrs.com/Living%20Cookbook/EarthyFrenchBread.htm
www.rockinrs.com Yum - Bread and Tango [Argentine - International Ballroom, American Social or Round Dance choreographed ballroom lessons for couples - and a white chocolate martini after class sounds just perfect.
I have always loved the Little House on the Prarie books - but the one episode of the TV series I saw was a total abomination. Yerrch!
I've gotten to the stage where I actually prep tomorrow's food whilst tonight's is cooking. Stir fries are so much quicker when you don't have to slice everything up as you go, and we have tuna pasta bake in the fridge, waiting to be baked for tonight. This is partly because my work hours are otherwise totally incompatible with J's early dinner ideal (and because if he cooked, I would be living off of cholesterol soup with double fried croutons).
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