My Kitchen Sees A LOT of Action

After I shared our “Day in the Life of FPIES“, I got a lot of comments about how much time I spend in the kitchen and how focused we must be on food all the time. So I thought it would be fun to document everything we cooked for a week just to see if an FPIES/Fructmal Mama/family really does spend more time in the kitchen than most people.

Here is everything we cooked last week from Sunday to Saturday. Let me know if you think this is a lot of cooking or if I whine more than I should about how much time in the kitchen we spend!

Sunday:

• One loaf of bread
• Double batch hamburger hash
• One serving of hash browns
• One package of pork sausage
• Two trays of quinoa tortilla bread
• Pitcher of quinoa milk
• One steak
• Heated up one serving of quinoa for me
• Heated up a bowl of quinoa for Zac
• Heated up two 1 oz. servings of pork for Zac
• One batch of candy bars without chocolate
• Chicken, carrot and bell pepper stir fry w/ leftover mac ‘n cheese
• Strained off pork broth that had cooked overnight
• French fries for a snack
• Ran the dishwasher twice

Monday:

• Double tray of quinoa tortilla bread
• More quinoa milk
• Heated up leftover sausages
• Heated up 1 oz. serving of pork for Zac
• Made a triple batch of hamburger hash
• Hash browns with chopped up leftover sausage
• 2 hamburgers for Jed
• Heated up dinner leftovers from Sunday night
• Made a mix of Quinoa and ground beef stir fried in olive oil
• Ran the dishwasher twice

Tuesday:

• Made a double batch of hamburger hash
• Made a pan of bacon (in the oven of course)
• Three hamburgers
• Cooked a steak
• Made millet flour brown gravy w/fresh sliced mushrooms
• Fresh green beans w/red bell pepper and mushrooms
• Tray of quinoa biscuits
• Quinoa/hamburger stir-fry mix for me
• Bowl of rice cereal for Jed
• Ran the dishwasher once

Wednesday:

• Bowl of rice cereal for Jed
• Steak and hash browns for my breakfast
• Turkey sandwich w/ potato chips
• Cut and served a bunch of candy bars
• Heated up leftovers from last nights dinner
• Ground beef/quinoa stir-fry mix for me
• French fries for a snack

Being worn out from the reaction caught up to me today; I didn’t feel well and was very tired so went for leftovers as much as possible.

Thursday:

• Rinsed and cooked a pot of quinoa (3 cups)
• Piece of toast with sunbutter
• Turkey sandwich w/ chips
• Quinoa stuffed peppers
• T-bone steaks
• Big pot of mashed potatos
• Homemade lemon-lime soda
• More Quinoa/ground beef stir-fry mix
• Ran dishwasher twice

Jed ate two bananas, too!

Friday:

• Bowl of rice cereal w/ banana
• Double hamburger hash
• Sirloin steak
• Leftover mashed potatos
• Cooked another package of sausages
• Ran dishwasher once

Another wiped out day; Jed ate lots of quick foods (leftovers, bananas, candy bars).

Saturday:

• 10 pieces french toast
• Heated up leftover sausages
• Sliced bananas
• Heated up 1 oz. of pork and quinoa for Zac
• Steak and Hash browns
• Pot of quinoa (4 cups)
• Spaghetti squash
• Pork chops
• Green beans
• Steak for me
• Heated up more pork and quinoa for Zac
• French fries as a snack
• Cleaned out our deep fryer
• Ran dishwasher twice

And of course, several times every day, I fed Zac bowls of quinoa. I only mention this because I may or may not have documented it each time, since all that involves is scooping quinoa from the big pot in the fridge into a smaller bowl for him! It doesn’t really feel like food preparation because it’s so easy!

So what do you think? Is that a lot of cooking or pretty normal for you, and are you an FPIES family or not?

I feel like it’s pretty normal; maybe even a little lightweight. I didn’t cook up any bones for beef broth this week, or dehydrate the broth. I also didn’t make any beef jerky or potato chips from scratch this week. And I couldn’t claim credit for the pork roast because I cooked that right before my “document the week” began!

Also, we had a bit of a rough week and a few days I just didn’t get much sleep, so, I was tired and went for our version of convenience food for a couple days there.

I should also point out that I am not the only person who did all this cooking. Some of these items were cooked entirely by Darrel on days that he was home. This was just to show what is cooked in our house in a week – not necessarily who cooked it! (Thank you, honey!)

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Have you ever written down everything you’ve cooked in a week? What did it tell you about your lifestyle?