Fresh-Start Challenge, Week 1, Day 1

Welcome to the Challenge! This week, you'll be cooking part of your meals from scratch in just 20 minutes a day. Next week, you'll use those skills and more to cook all of your food from scratch.

Day 1, Week 1.  

• Get any groceries you need (plant-strong or classic)
• Set up your Stoup container if you don't have one
• Make Vinaigrette for use later in the week
• Make and enjoy dessert:
  • Plant-Strong:  Sweet-Sixteen Oatmeal-Raisin Bars
  • Classic: Chocolate Pudding with banana slices 
    

 

Every day, you'll enjoy delicious, healthy, and affordable food. How affordable? During the second week, the classic meals average just $5.33 a day per person and the plant-strong ones only $5.22, using prices gather this week here in Raleigh.  

Food prices have gone up during the two years since I gather prices for Wildly Affordable Organic. But the real, seasonal food on these menus is still a bargain compared to processed food wrapped in packaging, stored in warehouses, and transported for thousands of miles. Good food is a bargain at the market and a bargain for your health and for the planet.

Thanks for your interest in the Fresh-Start Challenge! Share your thoughts in the free Cook for Good forum. I've started a general discussion thread, but feel free to start a more specific thread (Fresh-Start for New Moms, for example).