I am finally starting to get a hang of this home cooking diet. My body wants food more than it wants to sit around and watch television. I don't feel like cooking and cleaning is as much of a chore because the reward is worth it. I feel compelled to cook. I don't have to force this action on myself as much as when I started.
My frugality has resurfaced as well, due to the massive amounts of lettuce I go through. It's no longer worthwhile to get the pre-washed, pre-cut salad greens any more. I stock up on raw, unprocessed ingredients. Washing and cutting don't seem like a time sink now that I enjoy my time spent cooking. I go to the grocery store more often because fresh veggies takes up a lot of space, but I eat a lot of them. Going through greens so fast is motivating me to push up my gardening plans by starting out with a cold frame, a mini greenhouse that will let me cultivate spinach, cabbage, and lots of other staples.
I was thinking about building a cold frame, but after comparing the price of materials and a prebuilt cold frame, I will go ahead and order one online. I really want to kick myself for not buying one when I saw it at the hardware store last summer. I convinced myself that since I was there to buy a not-so-cheap shed, that all other expenses could wait. Unfortunately, waiting caused me to lose out on a perfectly good deal. The cold frame I plan to order is a double wide, though, so the extra expense is more like I'm buying two at once.
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