I can't believe we are once again at the beginning of another new year. We have a lot of plans for this year, including another long trip, though we might make a few alternate plans just in case of a government shut down. Several national parks are on the itinerary and sadly if there is one thing you can count on, it is politicians to NOT agree on anything other than disagreeing.
We ringed in the New Year in our "normal" manner. We drank freshly pressed NO SUGAR added grape juice, played games, and watched a movie. Then we watched the ball drop in NYC. That is a feat in itself. It is really annoying to watch all the "Rockin Eve" festivities, but get switched to local station about 1 minute before the ball drops. No one cares about the Dallas festivities and it leaves us scrambling to find a YOU TUBE LIVE feed to try and watch the last 30 seconds before the ball drops and we can finally stick the kids(and ourselves) in bed.
We are NOT a family that makes resolutions. I figure we know what we need to be doing all year long and some arbitrary date each year isn't what I should wait for to implement better habits. That being said this was the PERFECT time to implement a sugar detox. The rules for this are simple we can eat NOTHING with added sugar or artificial sweetener. That means no drinks, no creamer, no cereal, most breads and pasta, no condiments except real mayo and mustard, apparently French fries even have sugar added to "give a uniform golden color". Why?!! We are on Day 5 and I am not going to lie it hasn't been pretty. We don't really eat a lot of sugar, but completely cutting it out has been a little harder than I thought. For example, today after we came back from the basketball games I heated up organic chicken nuggets (no sugar) and couldn't have BBQ sauce or ketchup. It sucked. Everyone has been pretty irritable the past couple of days and I am pretty sure if a girl scout wandered down our driveway there might be an all out fist fight over cookies. Surprisingly though, most of what we are all talking about is not sweets or desserts, but real food. My daughter wants ranch, my son wants queso and chips, I want a burger and fries (which is probably the weirdest because I NEVER want to eat a burger), and my husband wants wine. 2 more days! Arghhhh!!!
T started basketball season this week. His new jersey came in and he did not have to wear one that was 4 sizes too small! They lost the first game by a couple of points and won the second game by a couple of points. Thanks to a draft system this season the teams were pretty evenly matched.
Sorry for no pictures this week, but the only thing I took a picture of this week was the grocery list. Blame it on the detox. If you are interested I need fruit, oil, butter, milks (we use 3 types), vegetables, toilet paper, and multi grain tortilla chips.
Happy New Years Every One!
We ringed in the New Year in our "normal" manner. We drank freshly pressed NO SUGAR added grape juice, played games, and watched a movie. Then we watched the ball drop in NYC. That is a feat in itself. It is really annoying to watch all the "Rockin Eve" festivities, but get switched to local station about 1 minute before the ball drops. No one cares about the Dallas festivities and it leaves us scrambling to find a YOU TUBE LIVE feed to try and watch the last 30 seconds before the ball drops and we can finally stick the kids(and ourselves) in bed.
We are NOT a family that makes resolutions. I figure we know what we need to be doing all year long and some arbitrary date each year isn't what I should wait for to implement better habits. That being said this was the PERFECT time to implement a sugar detox. The rules for this are simple we can eat NOTHING with added sugar or artificial sweetener. That means no drinks, no creamer, no cereal, most breads and pasta, no condiments except real mayo and mustard, apparently French fries even have sugar added to "give a uniform golden color". Why?!! We are on Day 5 and I am not going to lie it hasn't been pretty. We don't really eat a lot of sugar, but completely cutting it out has been a little harder than I thought. For example, today after we came back from the basketball games I heated up organic chicken nuggets (no sugar) and couldn't have BBQ sauce or ketchup. It sucked. Everyone has been pretty irritable the past couple of days and I am pretty sure if a girl scout wandered down our driveway there might be an all out fist fight over cookies. Surprisingly though, most of what we are all talking about is not sweets or desserts, but real food. My daughter wants ranch, my son wants queso and chips, I want a burger and fries (which is probably the weirdest because I NEVER want to eat a burger), and my husband wants wine. 2 more days! Arghhhh!!!
T started basketball season this week. His new jersey came in and he did not have to wear one that was 4 sizes too small! They lost the first game by a couple of points and won the second game by a couple of points. Thanks to a draft system this season the teams were pretty evenly matched.
Sorry for no pictures this week, but the only thing I took a picture of this week was the grocery list. Blame it on the detox. If you are interested I need fruit, oil, butter, milks (we use 3 types), vegetables, toilet paper, and multi grain tortilla chips.
Happy New Years Every One!
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