Poverty Diet

In order to prepare ourselves for FXCC's "gift beyond words" contribution this Sunday, many of us are doing a "poverty diet". Lee and I decided that since we were gone all last week, and so busy the week before that no groceries were bought, we are just going to eat whatever we have on hand. It's a little different than was requested, but I'm excited about the challenge. You think about eating differently when you have to ration out food. For example, We have 8 pieces of week-old bread that will have to make it through the week. Fortunately I have a couple cups of flour and know how to make bread, :) so that will get us a little longer. But there is only a half of a half gallon of milk (is that a quart?) left that expired yesterday, but it still smells fine, so for cereal this morning I used as little as possible. For lunch I had half of a pb and j. Cole is getting the best of what we have. He will still be on formula until next week, and for lunch he had cheese, fruit, and crackers. If I water down his apple juice, I should have enough to last the week. Already I'm seeing how blessed we are: I may have to get creative, but there's no way we will be starving this week.That's a God thing.