Day 1Today's dozen homemade pitas, six oatmeal pancakes, three dozen chocolate chip cookies with organic chocolate from scratch and 16 ground sirloin meatballs meant six sink loads of dirty dishes, which Dirk and I have to do by hand. We don't have a dishwasher. It's not that we want to experience an authentic Jamestownian existence here in Virginia. It's just that our 1940s original kitchen has no room.
We also had an unexpected turn in our hypothesis about the kids. Aidan's been psyched about the expriment for days, and Patrick's been bad mouthing Fresh Mouth from the start. But today Patrick was a champ and ate everything we offered with no complaint. Aidan did every dance of procrastination he could think of at all meals - getting up for water, bathroom trips and retrieving napkins for anyone who needed them. We rewarded them both though with homemade cookies - Aidan for a valiant effort of eating a meatball with something green in it (parsley) and Patrick for eating everything.
Dirk and I are exhausted from cooking and getting ready for tomorrow.
Menu
Breakfast: Oatmeal pancakes, clementines, apples and juice with fish oil.
Lunch: Homemade pitas, hummus and yogurt.
Dinner: Ground sirloin meatballs with parsley from the garden and garlic, whole wheat spaghetti, green salad with veggies and homemade balsamic vinaigrette, organic milk, and chocolate chip cookies with organic chocolate.
Nugget o' the Day: "These meatballs smell like they have veggies in them." - Aidan after gagging at the thought of green in his meat
3 comments:
You are a trooper and crazy and I can't wait to see how it goes. Maybe you should consider moving to my house for the next 30 days... I have a dishwasher :~)
tears- You are more of a woman than I am! I can imagine Aiden's face at the thought of eating vegetable laced meatballs. Good luck!
too awesome!!! you guys are GREAT!~!! Is this the subject of a new book? or at least an article in the New Yorker... best of luck!!!
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