Day 6:

We've been enjoying leftovers, and yesterday I ate WAY too many pieces of my gluten-free corn bread.  Oh, my gosh.  I love it.  I'm relatively certain that I had about 15 pieces (okay, it might have been more), and I gained 4 lbs. over night.  Literally.  I ran several miles up a big hill this morning as penance.  

The food I wanted to focus on today, that we have REALLY been enjoying, is not really a food.  It's grape juice.  We have a ton of it; both from red grapes, that produce this gorgeous, dark purple juice, and green grapes, which makes a murky, brownish juice.  Because we are naturally frugal people, we don't ever buy real juice from the store.  We buy water flavoring.  I always figured that the whole idea behind any beverage is to get someone to drink water so that they, you know, stay alive and stuff.  So, this is what we've done for years:

It tastes good, it's cheap (six packets in each for $1.72?!), the kids love it, and most of the time they can make it by themselves with relatively little mess.  In the 6 days we've been doing this though, I decided to not use the rest of the Wyler's Light that we had on hand, but to go straight to our supply of for-real, authentic, super-healthy, won't-leave-colored-mustaches grape juice.  It has been DIVINE.  If you've never had for-real, authentic, super-healthy, won't-leave-colored-mustaches grape juice, it's not like the nuclear purple grape juice you buy in the store.  It's beautiful and very natural looking.  It's not sicky-sweet, but it is naturally sweet enough that the kids find it appealing.  Ethan asks for it constantly.

Isn't it beautiful?

So, even though we're eating lots of fun mixtures of food storage meals + things we already had on hand (ground beef, rice and cheese wrapped in a tortilla---yum!), this is today's take-away: real juice is awesome.  Go squeeze yourself some grapes today!