28 Day Real Food Challenge – Week 1 Recap

Thanks to the 28 day real food challenge over at Nourished Kitchen, it has been one week since I had sugar, soda or coffee. One week without using processed foods in my home, one week making everything, and I do mean EVERYTHING from scratch.

This week we purged our pantry*, filled it back up, learned about the proper way to prepare all grains (soaking, souring or sprouting) for maximum digestibility and nutritional benefit. I sprouted wheat, dehydrated it and ground it into flour. I prepared a sourdough starter and made pancakes with it – and next week will be making my first loaf of sourdough bread. I prepared steel cut oats, numerous loaves of bread and noodles all from scratch with the proper soaking methods. I fed my family real, wholesome, delicious food and didn’t hear one complaint.

It was a great week in our home. In the next week my hopes are to stay on track! I have a kombucha starter & water kefir grains along with two kits for making fermented vegetables (pickles here we come!) all on the way.

I am feeling really good about these changes – changes I have been trying to make for a long time and I am SO grateful to Jenny of Nourished Kitchen for putting this whole thing on – I’m sure it is a TON of work, she should be so proud of herself for giving lots of families like mine the kick in the pants they needed to get started eating real food!

*I will admit to there being a pile of butterscotch candy in the cabinet… I however, have not touched it. I kept it on hand in case a sugar withdrawl hit and I was about to take it out on the kids. Thankfully that has not been the case at all, and I’m sure it will land in the trash, as I don’t even have a desire to consume it.