Day 14 & 15

Last night, we had another church supper, so no recipes were cooked. We just packed the usual tote bag: carrot juice, Barley Max and greens. The turkey dinner smelled heavenly!!!

Tonight, I made Veggie Burgers pg 155. I doubled the recipe so we could freeze some. I did not have the liquid smoke that it called for so I substituted Bragg's Aminos and also added some sauteed mushrooms. I cooked them in a frying pan with Grapeseed oil. They browned beautifully and they tasted great. I served them in whole wheat rolls with a slice of avocado and Veganaise on top. Yummy! Hopefully, I can fined liquid smoke tomorrow an add it to the rest of the batch. Josh, 17, rated the burgers "check ++".

In regard to diet, I feel like we have come almost full circle back to our days of living off the land. The main difference being that I now buy the organic vegetables instead of growing them. It really was a tremendous amount of work and the crops didn't always come through even though you put the work in. I remember one year I tried to grow Fava beans. I had great hopes of supplying all my family's need for protein with this crop. The beans came up and flourished and by July huge beans dangled from every stalk. Surely, they would mature by fall so I could dry and preserve them for winter, or so I thought! However, my four year old decided to help Mom by picking every single bean long before anything had grown inside the pod. My entire crop was gone. He didn't miss a single bean!