If you’ve been following my posts here at 5 Minutes for Going Green, you know I’m all about taking baby steps toward eco-living. In other words, I tend to take two steps forward, followed by at least one squarely on my cushy bottom.
One step forward I’ve taken recently is to bake and cook healthy, whole-food after-school snacks for my kids. I’m tired of buying over-processed, heavily-packaged snack foods that destroyed my grocery budget.
Three winning recipes my (picky) kids happily eat:
Egg and cheese sandwiches:
2 packages English muffins (I buy wheat)
2 dozen eggs (I go with free range)
24 slices cheese (cheddar for our family)
Optional: ham slices or the veggie equivalent (we like Yves brand)
Fry the eggs individually (we cracked them right into circular cookie cutters on the griddle to keep their shape).
That won’t be the only farm I will visit this year.
When my family and I began this journey going green, we started with simple recycling. I am telling you- it is really addictive. We began to notice that trips to the alley for the garbage dwindled as the trips to the recycling center increased. Good, but I knew we could do better. The next step was creating ways to discard even less and begin reusing materials more.