Preparing for battle

That sounds a bit dramatic, but in my mind this sure is a battle. I don't know what my whole plan is yet but I do know that I would like to keep the food inside our home as healthy as possible, that way when we have the chance to go out with friends, or my husband and I go on a date it can be a special treat.

First up on the agenda today (once the girls were busy with their school work) was to clear out all of the junk that has slowly crept in… Dr. Pepper I used for a recipe, packaged food I would grab at target when I was too lazy to go shopping, microwave popcorn (the girls didn't appreciate that), random canned food… The basket is stuff I can donate, the trash bag is partially eaten or perishable goods that needed to go!

The other thing to go today was artificial sweeteners. I don't have a big weakness for soda, I cut out sodas years ago, and now when I have the occasional diet coke it doesn't really bother me that much. My weakness is for iced tea, which would be perfectly ok if I wasn't using sweet n low to sweeten it. I've used sweet n low in my tea since I was a teenager so this is a sore spot for me, and embarrassingly hard to give up. When it comes down to it I want to be ok with choosing calories over chemical so sweet n low and all anther artificial sweeteners got the boot. From now on I'll be working on easing my way into liking tea less sweet, or maybe even transitioning to hot tea with honey (which means I need to learn to like honey a whole lot more).

Brianne