Day 29:

I still haven't found the absolute perfect wheat bread recipe, but I am one step closer.  Today, I ground my own wheat; something I have been kind of avoiding since starting this challenge.  Knowing that I had tons of cans of white flour out in the garage, I knew that I didn't really have to, and I remembered it being a lot messier than it really was.  Where my kids were concerned, the wheat grinder was a super star, and they were all extremely eager to help.  Tommorrow, on the final day of this challenge, I really, really, REALLY will make homemade wheat bread.  I almost promise.

For lunch today, I ate one of my favorite things that I've talked about before; frozen peaches, all warmed up, topped with a little bit of stevia.  As you can see, they aren't perfectly devoid of frost, and I have left the peels on.  This was very much on purpose.  First of all, I freeze peaches because it is SO much faster than canning them.  I wash, quarter them, lay them out on cookie sheets and freeze them that way, then scrape them off the pan the next day and put them in gallon baggies.  Freezing them separately first makes it so they don't all end up in a frozen, nasty, nearly unusable lump at the bottom of the bag that you have to chisel out with a butter knife and a hammer.  Ask me how I know this.  Second, I would like to say that I leave the peels on because it adds more fiber and significantly increases the health benefits of preserved peaches (I can them with peels on too), but that really isn't why I do it.  I have a limited amount of time that I am willing to devote to food preservation, and it's not worth it to me to spend such a huge allotment of my time resource on removing something I don't really care about.  Sure, I prefer to eat them later without the peel, but I really am not picky enough to not eat them if it hasn't been removed.

Tonight, it's pork (prepared, shredded and frozen) and veggie soup!  My family is getting MOST anxious to eat "normally" again.  I have to admit, the grapes at WinCo were mighty tempting.  I think they will be the first thing I buy when I go back to normal shopping!