Back on the Wagon

Can I just say how much easier life is when you have a plan...a dinner plan that is.  This was something I was successful at in the past, but when the girls were diagnosed with Celiac Disease, it really made me hate food.  I hated thinking about it, buying it and more so, cooking it.  I find that I can get stuck in the mind set of  'we are so limited on what we can eat'.  There have been soooo many days when five o'clock rolls around and I still have no idea what I will be serving my family for dinner.  I also found that I was constantly running to the store to buy food for meals.  Can we say, "expensive!"  Something had to change.  I had to change.  So at the end of the year, I sat down and planned out the whole month of January.  Then I made out my shopping list.  Such a great feeling!!  As we are more than halfway through the month, I can tell you that I have much less anxiety about dinner.  Each day I can get up, know what dinner is, get it in the crockpot or ready to be put in the oven later and move on with my day.  It has also made it so I can focus on the afterschool needs of the kids.  I hope to have as much success next month and the months after that!