Day 1 of 7

Today is the first day of our 7 day journey of limiting ourselves to 7 foods.

I woke up before dawn feeling deprived.

HUH?

I seriously did, and I hadn't even started.  Pitiful, right?

The fact that I felt deprived without even ever facing real deprivation in my whole life just shows me how accustomed I am to luxury and abundance. Just the thought of limiting myself brought negative feelings. (Not to mention the fact that hubs and I just spent 4 days in Charleston--the cuisine capital of the south.)

I'm not going to publish our menus every day, but I'll give you a peek into what I've eaten today:

Breakfast--2 scrambled eggs, dry whole-wheat toast, water

Lunch--Sauteed onion and spinach sandwich, pear  (surprisingly delicious)

Dinner--Baked chicken, rice, spinach

Here's the upside...I HATE grocery shopping, and our trip to buy 7 foods yesterday happened really quickly.

Here's a strange twist...At the store we visited yesterday, there was no fresh spinach.  Evidently there was a freeze, and spinach is expensive and hard to come by.  What irony!  It made me think, though.  I am used to going to a grocery store that is not only full of food, it is full of almost any kind of food you can imagine from anywhere in the world.  What if food was scarce even in our grocery stores?  What if it was limited?  Truly food for thought and thankfulness.

Tomorrow I've got a special pre-Valentine's treat cooked up, but I'll be back later in the week to report in.  My bold declaration that I would blog every day this week is probably bogus, but I promise to update.  :)