What's scarier?

I wrote this like 3 weeks ago, and forgot to Publish it. Sorry, I am still alive ;-)


The fact that I'm making bread from scratch today, or the fact it appears to have turned out?

I've come to the conclusion that yep, I've really gone off the deep end. I mean I don't think I have, but after being told that quite a few times, and making my own bread, I guess it must be true. Oh well. I truly started down this road of trying to go more natural, and back to basics as a two part effort. One was to clear #1's diet of most red dyes and excess sugar, and the other was I found it is cheaper and moving every 2 years takes it's toll on a budget. Since I have been asked how I manage to keep our food budget down the easiest answer is that I buy very little convince/snack foods, lots of generics, and do things like have Monday be Soup Night (hence the homemade bread to go with the black bean soup I'm planning for dinner). I found out soup is actually easy and cheap to make as long as you go with in season veggies or things like beans and lentils.

What is surprising is that on the way down this road I remembered I use to be an environmentalist, the reason why I was and how I planed to save the world. Even stranger is the fact that I've noticed that this is the cumulation of the two parts of my personality I've always struggled to combine.