It’s day ten. I’m a third of the way through my challenge. I have more energy during the day, my hair has become unusually soft, my (TMI ahead) bowels have calmed and regulated.

Today I ate sardines for lunch. I love a nice sardine pâté. I had steel cut oats with fruit for breakfast. In the afternoon I shared some fresh popcorn with Freya — popped in coconut oil and seasoned with salt and nutritional yeast. For dinner I made chicken soup using one whole chicken, homemade stock, carrots, onions, celery, and parsnips. After the girls get to sleep I’m going downstairs to have a cup of tea and a piece of “pumpkin pie bread”, which is a dairy-wheat-sugar free quick bread I made this morning. It has the flavor and texture of pumpkin pie. It’s amazing. I used some pumpkin purée that I made last night.

So this whole deal is making me more into cooking from scratch than usual, apparently.

It was an amazing weekend. I didn’t get to everything on my list, but I did organize the pantry and attend a beautiful party for a beautiful little three-year-old girl. Oh and the Seahawks won. Yay!