Catching Up

Fresh juice; beets, ginger, carrots, & pears

Kelsey's favourite oatmeal, she loves it for breakfast and before figure skating. The oatmeal has in it hempseeds, cinnamon, apple cider, gogi berries, dehydrated apples, and almond milk.

Gogi berries have protein, fiber, vitamin A, vitamin C, calcium, iron and other vitamins and minerals. They taste great in hot apple cider, oatmeal and herbal teas, the kids love them. They are good in berry herbal tea with honey and fresh ginger if you are not feeling great.

Hemp seeds are great sprinkled on foods, they don't have any taste really and provide a lot of nutrients. I try to add hemp, flax, chia or sesame seeds to foods for extra nutrients. Hemp seeds have omegas, calcium, iron, vitamin E, zinc, magnesium, and phosphorus. You can sprinkle them on just before serving the food.

We have been using the dehydrator lots lately. We used the market fruits and have done apples, strawberries, apricots, pears and grocery store organic bananas. Yum! They make great school snacks. They don't last long here, they get eaten very quickly!

My SIL baked Connor gf banana bread and saltine crackers for his lunches. Connor loves banana bread and he was so happy to finally have it again. The saltine crackers were great and we have enjoyed them in soups, rice crackers are just not the same in soup. :)

Connor's lunch for the first day of school; gluten free noodles, local market vegetables; carrots, celery, broccoli, & cucumbers, hormone free leftover steak, oil dressing. He loved it. :)

local fruit from the market

We are back in the fall routine with school, homework, figure skating, Acro and hockey. Connor has been taking cooking lessons and loving every minute of it. We are going to the market on the weekends and enjoying all the local foods, we are going to miss it this winter. Starting to make fall foods and drinks and getting my fall menu plan ready.

What are your favourite foods and drinks in the fall?