Saturday!

I am hoping to put myself back into a routine...it's very hard here in Bermuda because there's tons going on! :)

I went to the Farmer's Market today to get me some CHICKEN! I have to take a moment here to plug Wadson's Farms --- they are AWESOME! Everyone I ever come into contact from there is always so friendly and knowledgeable! I found out that they are definitely opening a store at the farm, and they hope to have it done by Easter!

I got a whole bunch of food today, and you know what - it didn't cost much more than what an old weekly shopping trip would have cost...I just got different stuff!

I also went to Lindo's in Devonshire (I can usually be found at the Warwick location!) and WHAT A DIFFERENCE! They have EVERYTHING there that I could possible ever dream up needing! I am so much more inspired now (they even have Wadsons' chicken there too!)

My haul includes white beets (the red ones were yummy, but I ate enough to make trips to the washroom very, um, colourful!) - and you can eat the greens too, so I made sure to pick a really nice bunch as I am trying to eat more greens...I never really had cooked greens as a kid (not even spinach) soooo I have to be inventive as an adult, and think it's good timing so I don;t have to subject my future kid(s) to experimenting with this!



Pink lady apple there in the foreground - never had one before!






The best part of all this organic food is that it's all "single-person" sized too! See how little that head of cabbage is! :)If i bought a 'regular' cabbage, I'd be eating it alllll month or it'd go bad before I got the chance to get to it :(

I also got two other kinds of sugar to test out. One is organic "less" refined, and one says it is unrefined demera. I found the unrefined demera in the regular sugar aisle. I am planning on making some banana bread this weekend (and maybe some cookies!) so I'll let people know what worked and what didn't!

So far, here are my white, refined, sugar replacement choices:



I guess it all depends on what your aim is in changing sugar. Mine, for the time being, is to find a non-refined kind of sugar...then I may try to move towards a 'healthier' solution for sugar.

AND - guesssss whhhhaaatttt! The oranges seemed done enough, so I scooped them off the tree!




I also made MAYONNAISE this morning! It was soooo easy! Sheesh!



Slowly but surely getting there!



(Lookit the organic FRESH milk there! That makes me the most excited of all!)