How to Clean out your Pantry

It has been 17 days since we started this clean eating journey. The day I cleaned out the pantry I was scared. Many of the things we ate I knew weren't as healthy as the could be. Here is the criteria I was given by my coach:

What to avoid:
• All over processed foods particularly white flour and sugar
• All chemically charge foods...
• Food containing preservatives
• Artificial Sugars
• Artificial foods like sliced cheese
• Saturated and trans fats
• Sugar loaded beverages(juice)
• Alcohol intake(very limited)
• All calorie dense foods containing little or no nutritional value
• super sizing your meals

So I set out to clean my pantry with these simple guidelines. Here is a picture of what I got rid of:

So as you can see we had a lot of pasta, some condensed soups, Ketchup, and pasta sauce. The thing I was surprised was the worst thing in my pantry was the ranch dressing. It had so many chemical in it.

I also cleaned out the fridge. I had to through out BBQ sauce, dressing, and mustard. The fridge definitely was easier than the pantry.

So you want to get healthy let's start by looking at your pantry. IS there something you are questioning whether it is good or not?  Use a program like Fooducate tm (http://www.fooducate.com/) to see how it rates. If it doesn't rate well pitch it.

Now 17 days later we are feeling great. Even my 4 and 2 year olds are loving eating healthy. Find support and start today.

Other Projects

I thought I'd share with you some recent projects I have made. I've been busy with the girls and haven't had as much time to blog as I'd like. Plus there has to be time to craft.

First I want to share the girls birthday invite. I was so excited to see how they turned out. The wings open up so you can read the words.

The next are some of the presents I made for my husband for Father's Day. He got them today as I will be at a retreat tomorrow and we have church on Sunday. Plus A wanted to do a scavenger hunt for him to find them.

Pictures that are part of the pull out

Close up of the pull out

8x8 trifold album inside

This is the front of the album

Butterfly mobile

Hugs

Here is a shadow box frame I made for our MOPS table leader and MOPS mentor.

 Some of the ladies from Melissa Taylor's online bible studies were talking about scripture boxes. This is one I made for my MOPS table leader and our MOPS mentor.

Something else little I made for MOPS.

Hope you enjoy seeing my recent projects. I have a few more in the works right now. I'm hoping to get more picture up soon. Hope you all have a blessed day. 

Clean Mud

Today was a day where I needed an activity to keep everyone busy. We've stuck in the house too many days with sick kids and I wanted to stay in just one more day to make sure we were better. I've been wanting to try the clean mud/indoor snow recipe from the sugar aunts website for awhile (http://www.sugaraunts.com/2013/02/mess-free-indoor-snow-sensory-play.html). It was a ton of fun and A had a blast.

Tearing the toilet paper

Bar of ivory soap before the microwave

After two minutes in the microwave. This was A's favorite part

Finished product

I bought some plastic dinosaurs from the dollar store and some sand toys at the end of last season from Christmas Tree Shops.

She had a blast making all kinds of things in it

You can make it as soupy or solid as you want. Easy clean up too as it is just water, soap and toilet paper.