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There is an old food adage saying, “Eat lunch like a prince and dinner like a pauper.” Remember, food is energy. If we were hungry late in the day, we would eat a small snack. Doug and I call it “linner” (combination of lunch and dinner.) We found that when we ate our biggest meal “linner” in the early afternoon, we felt much better.

It was not the large evening meal that many of us are accustomed to. This meal was eaten in the early afternoon. The main and biggest meal of the day in the 1800s was what they called “dinner”. Breakfast for dinner is always a hit especially when you have an infinite amount of chicken, turkey, and duck eggs! If ever you are in a pinch, sourdough French toast, quiche, potatoes, and eggs are something everyone agrees upon. Of course, there will be days when you won’t know what to make.

Hamburger stuffed butternut squash with tahini sauce.

A topping for a hamburger sourdough pizza.

I would cook 2-3 pounds of hamburger meat with onions, garlic, and seasonings to use for 4 separate meals. Deciding to double and triple certain foods in our recipes helped to make three or four other meals for the week. I just needed to change up what we ate and not eat the same thing two days in a row. Doug is not a big fan of eating leftovers. Planning ahead one week at a time works the best for us. If you have a plan in whatever you do, it always works out. Without planning, we never knew what to make. Meal planning was so helpful in our home. Sometimes the simplest recipes are the best. For example, cooking a grass fed steak, baked sweet potato, and tossing a big salad from the garden with homemade salad dressing (most store-bought dressings are loaded with rancid oils and preservatives.) This meal will be bursting with flavor, nutrition, and is not complicated to make. You know that feeling you get after cutting the grass…….well, it is the same after preparing a delicious meal! Eat food that is closest to the way nature made it. We have a vested interest with our food to keep us healthy. Our food should bring us life and vitality, not sickness and disease. These convenience foods are high in preservatives, additives, dyes, and unhealthy oils.

It is easy to see how people migrated to restaurants, fast food windows, and boxes of processed food from the grocery store. It has to do with a relationship with the food. You truly are what you eat! Cooking from scratch isn’t just about making your own food. For the first time in our life, we both were grateful for our meals.įood is fuel for energy, for your mind, and your hormones. By going through the process of growing, harvesting, preparing and storing, we really appreciated what we were eating. We quickly found a new and exciting relationship with our food. Most everything was raised, grown, and prepared on the homestead.

We noticed that preparation and cooking was what dominated most of the woman’s day. In our spare time, we would watch old westerns and learn about the old ways of doing things and implement them in our daily life on the farm. We especially wanted to cook at home and not eat out as much as we used to because we wanted to take the best care of ourselves as we could and know exactly how it was prepared and what went in it. Doug and I decided to take charge of our health and nourish our bodies with the best foods possible and change how and what we were eating. We also wanted to grow organically without the use of herbicides or pesticides. Most produce loses 30% of its nutrients within three days after picking. By growing our own produce, it would make for better tasting food along with higher nutritional values. We discovered that many of the produce items we were buying at the store travel hundreds and even thousands of miles to get to the market. We wanted to get closer to our food and be more involved in the process so we knew how and what went into our growing of food. We wanted to live a similar way as the pioneers did of the 1800s. After living on our off grid homestead over a decade, our saying here is…….We are living the pioneer life in the 21st century.