My 10 Nourishing Foods Goals
I like goals and lists, it helps give me something to strive for. So the following is my list of Nourishing Food goals for this coming year! I’ve made it pretty ‘achievable’ and also very specific because I like to actually meet mt goals, not get overwhelmed by them.
- Learn to ferment at least 2 vegetables
- Learn to make cheese
- Try eating liver/organ meats once a month
- Plant 2 new vegetables in the garden
- Perfect a soaked bread recipe
- Learn to sprout
- Grind my own flour (this means I’ll have to save up for a grain mill first)
- Try 2 new sweeteners
- Incorporate more fish into our diets – throughout the year I started slacking on my normal once a week goal
- Get back to meal planning! – this one starts now.
And a bonus one
- Cut out refined sugar again!
So there you have it, what I’m striving for this year. Have you thought about where you want your nutrition to go this year? Even if you can’t think of the whole year at this point in your life, what goals do you want to achieve this coming month?
And if you’re looking for some great ideas of things to incorporate in your diet, check out Kimi’s Nourishing New Years Resolutions.
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This seem really achieveable and great ones! Keep us posted on how you do?!
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donielle Reply:
January 7th, 2010 at 12:03 pm
@Jodi, I’ll definitely keep you posted. Helps me stay a bit more accountable. Maybe I should do a monthly recap at the end of each month…..
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You encourage me, Donielle! I’m not there yet but maybe someday I’ll have some of these goals. Organ meat…what are the chances my hubby will try it?
My food-related goals for this year are: find a supplier for grass-fed beef and free-range chicken in Chattanooga, eat seasonally, and buy most of my produce at the farmer’s market or from a farm. I am so excited about moving–the private school my DH teaches at has an organic garden and we can buy from them for a discount! They also have a full-fledged farm with a CSA program. Once Libbie is a little older I hope we can do the “work for our CSA order” program so she can learn about farming and where food comes from.
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donielle Reply:
January 7th, 2010 at 12:03 pm
@Vanderbilt Wife, Those are awesome goals!! And how fabulous that you have access to an organic CSA. It’s one of the things I’ll be searching out more this year for sure since I don’t think I currently have enough time to grow everything I’d like.
And I plan on trying to make the organ meats meatloaf that we had at the Wise Traditions Conference. And not telling my husband what’s in it! I seriously couldn’t tell a difference at all.
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Donielle, you should check out http://users.sa.chariot.net.au/~dna/kefir_cheese.html It’s super great cheese making site that teaches you how to make cheese without all the fancy cultures and presses and stuff. I used it this summer as I was making cheese in trade for our milk
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donielle Reply:
January 7th, 2010 at 1:55 pm
@Sarah Bauer, Thanks for the link – I’m checking it out now!
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I love sprouting foods but have a hard time keeping up with it financially.
I’ll be interested in any posts you do on fermenting foods. I want to try that too. I did make our own kimchi type cabbage that was yummy but I want to try carrots and beets too.
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Those are great goals! My main goal is to find a source of grass-fed beef that we can afford. I also wanted to let you know that I couldn’t afford a grain mill so I just bought a cuisinart burr coffee mill (http://www.amazon.com/Cuisinart-DBM-8-Supreme-Grind-Automatic/dp/B00018RRRK) . It only does about a cup of flour at a time (so it takes a little longer), but I’ve used it successfully for about a year now. It is only about $40!
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donielle Reply:
January 8th, 2010 at 3:22 pm
@Meagan DeLong, I have heard that you could use a coffee grinder! Hmmm….I do have one but it’s sooooo little. I could do maybe a 1/4 cup at a time! I have thought about using it though just to try some sprouted flour! I’ll have to go look at the link you sent -thanks!
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