Dearest readers, I’m not sure if I deserve the attention, but I occasionally receive a request to share a realistic look at what my household eats during a typical day or week. Luckily for you curious ones, Shannon at Nourishing Days is running a series called “What do Real Food Bloggers Really Eat?” and I’m featured over there today.
Breakfast: Soaked oatmeal (with a little spelt flakes for phytase) with 1 spoonful of virgin coconut oil, cinnamon, raisins and raw milk
Lunch: beef barley soup with homemade stock, grassfed beef, soaked barley; sourdough focaccia, and a small glass of raw milk
Snack: half piece of homemade sourdough toast with homemade raw butter (frozen from last May for Vitamin D) and raw honey
Dinner: Sourdough pizza with store mozzarella cheese and pepperoni but homemade pizza sauce. Romaine lettuce salad (not even organic) with crispy sunflower seeds, organic carrot sticks, conventional brocoflower, with homemade garlic ranch dressings and pineapple slices.
Fascinating, yah? *sticks tongue out* If you want to see the rest of the week of my food journal, click here. I should probably keep another, more accurate recording to denote the added sugar that popped right back into my diet after Lent was over, though! I’m not always so “pure” in my realistic eating. I’ve been surprised to realize that I have quite often felt bloated and “off” in the gut since Easter, and I’m seriously thinking I need to crack down on myself even more on the junk…especially since I’m encouraging you all to cut back on the refined sugars this week!
**Have you entered to win a gigantor tub of freeze-dried fruit for your emergency snack stash?**
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This actually sounds really yummy. Would you share your ranch dressing recipe? I’ve been dying to make my own.
.-= Allison´s last blog ..Rock ‘n Roll Baby =-.
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Katie Reply:
April 14th, 2010 at 12:01 pm
Allison,
Katie
It’s right here: http://www.kitchenstewardship.com/recipes/homemade-ranch-dressing/ I also use a 1 part mayo, 1 part sour cream, 1 part yogurt and a dollop of pesto that is AWESOME. Adding fresh garlic to the ranch is super good, too.
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I love homemade pizza sauce. It gets a little better every time you make it!
.-= Denise Therese´s last blog ..Food and Stress: Partners in Crime =-.
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Katie,
I have a food blog (only pics/descriptions of food) to force me to 1.) create healthy foods for our family of 9, and 2.) inspire others to eat healthy at home. Here’s my blog: http://inspirationfood.posterous.com/
You’re inspiring me to keep it up.
Renee Harris
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Katie, this is hilarious! I posted a similar post today! Great minds think alike! Subscribed to you in google reader! What do I eat??? I’ll tell ya!
.-= oystergirl´s last blog ..Its all for the birds! =-.
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Oh wow that soup looks so good, do you have a recipe posted for it?
.-= Sarah @ OneStarryNight´s last blog ..Wordless Wednesday: At the Chicago Botanic Garden =-.
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I am not even kidding that I was just thinking this week that it would be interesting if you’d post your weekly menu like so many bloggers do. (Or even last week’s menu as a journal of sorts!) The nice thing about it is that you can link to recipes that new readers may have missed, and it’s also inspiring to see what other people are doing.
And I think I *finally* figured out what the giveaway is and I soooooo need one! I was thinking of asking for one for my birthday, even. What are the chances that I might win? :>) Enough that I’ll wait on the birthday present!
.-= Lenetta @ Nettacow´s last blog ..Spring Cleaning – Get the Sugar Out =-.
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Homemade whole wheat sourdough with butter and raw honey is one of my favorite snacks/breakfasts too! !
I think that our food always sounds more exotic in writing when you add all the “real food” adjectives than it seems when we are eating it. If we lived back in the days when everyone ate this way, we would just call it “food.”
No big whoop. 
I am inspired to try the foccacia now! Thanks for sharing!
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That looks like something I’d eat! (oh, except this week, inspired by you, I made sourdough banana breakfast bread).
Yum!
.-= Simple in France´s last blog ..Do you wish you spoke any other languages? =-.
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