Well I sure had an eventful day today! I am feeling very accomplished. I think a switch went off subconsciously for me when October hit. I have kept saying i was going to get back on track but something always prevented me. I have had fun being back in the kitchen, giving it a big purge and clean , digging out my appliances, learning to make my own soup and baking again!

I know its only October 3rd ( for another 20 mins) but I am trying to be active every day even just for an hour. So I have gone to yoga twice and yesterday my friend Claudia and I went for a 2 hour hike around kenna cartwright. So feeling that today but man it felt good! I even managed to get 2 loafs of my low protein bread made.

After yoga today, I came home and tidied up the house a bit, and then I started to sterilize my jars for my first attempt at canning.  While I was doing that I made 2 batched of pizza pops. In between batches the reporter who came to my house last week sent a photographer out to take some photos for the article. The story is tentatively suppose to run on Tuesday. He was cool. Shot with Nikon and took photos of me baking and we chatted about some of the things I have to do for my PKU and how much planning and prep work go into daily life. Things you don’t even think about anymore and how second nature they have become. He took photos of me making my pizza pops, of standing by my low protein pantry, with bags of my pasta and then with my mix quick box pointing at the nutritional facts. Even of me doing a blood dot card. ( which i meant to mail on my way to work but forgot)

It was fun and thank goodness my kitchen was clean!

After he left I finished my baking and then got out my pears. Peeled them and cut them and made the “syrup” the hole process took a lot longer than I thought and for all the pears I was able to reach and pick, I only made 5 cans. For my first attempt at canning and on my own i’m pretty proud. What is even better is that they are from my tree in the front yard. They are very yellow and juicy. I think they are Bartlett pears. I ate a few but tried to save them for the cans. I followed a recipe I found online with step by step instructions so hopefully I did it right.  I cant wait to eat them! Cole is going to get the ladder out on the weekend and pick the rest so I can can them too.

Now that we have had our first frost I need to dig up the rest of my carrots and harvest the kohlrabi. The weather has defiantly changed I can feel it in the air. Its gotten crisp and the temps have dropped to 1 or 3 at night.

I bought a bag of apples yesterday , so my plan tomorrow is to get my crock pot out and make some apple butter and can that. I also want to make applesauce and apple crisp. I have one small pumpkin left to so maybe on the weekend I will try to make a low protein pumpkin pie!

I have been drinking lots of tea this week to, my sister in law Rae-Anne has bees and kept the hives in Clinton and she just made her first batch of honey. She gave me a jar and it is sooo good! The best honey I have ever had. So a few days ago I had a sore throat so i made a hot tea of her honey, fresh grated ginger and lemon. It was so good! I never use to like ginger or lemon now I find them very “Clean” and “refreshing” tasting. I love the smell too.

I think I am going to do a small food order. I need a few more bags of pasta, and some low protein scrambled egg mix. I also have a cambrooke gift card since my tortilla wraps kept arriving damaged so maybe use that to get some more bigger bagels. I love the onion and garlic bigger bagels.  I need to keep it under budget though and set myself a limit. I just did all my finances since January , it was a real wake up call. A total slap in the face to see how much I have spending and how I have been living. I am terrible with money. So now I have to get my head out of the sand and grow up. I have set myself a budget , my goal is to pay off my debut and stop relying on my over draft and credit card. I want to get out the red and stay on track by December, than start putting money away and saving in January. I have no savings at all. I have been spending way more than I make. I went back and printed out all my debit statements and credit card statements from January forward and wrote down each value in each category. I learnt alot , but I also learnt I have been spending 300-600 dollars a month on food!!! just on my own. Not including what Cole buys!! that is outrageous!! That includes low protein food and trips to coopers. So I have set a budget for 300 a month, my half only. Including low protein food! It is going to be very difficult but I just have to stick to to. So glad to have the night line again at work. Really need it and to hold onto it.

well thats all for now. I think its time for some soup and a pizza pop!!