So Broke

I don't get paid for another two days, which is really not too horrible.  I'll survive.  I have plenty of junk in my kitchen to eat, not that I really want to eat it.  I think that when the cans and boxes are gone the flour and sugar is going to get donated (if closed) or tossed.  I have been reading up on Whole30 and I know that my husband and I will be doing that.  I've been planning and looking up a ton of recipes.  I have even done pricing research and I think that going Paleo won't be much more expensive on our immediate grocery bill than what we were eating before.  After all, we're cutting out chips, cookies, and my husband's overly priced Propel packets.  No crackers either.  I think I'l miss crackers in my soup most, but I think I can make soups that are so hearty I won't mind the loss.

Plus, no eating out.  We haven't done it for 3 weeks now, so I think we'll be ok.

I also kinda look like I tried to kill myself by slitting my wrists two different ways.  I cut them in creative ways while trying to get coconut meat out of the shell.  I bought three of the buggers and the second one would not cooperate to save my life.  In fact, it tried to kill me.

I'm bummed about now having anymore onions.  I don't know how I'm going to survive a whole day without an onion.  Man, what a turn around.  Before I was 19 years old I wouldn't touch onions.  I thought they were gross.  Actually, I don't think I ate vegetables.  I think carrots were the only vegetable that didn't have to be smothered in something horribly processed for me to eat it, and that's just barely.

I have been searching google like mad for stories of people's Paleo failures that go beyond a week.  Most people get the low-carb flu and quit or stick with it forever or decide that yeah, they feel great but they want their bread.  I haven't found anything that compares to what vegans and vegetarians face from weak teeth, hair loss, and other, scarier problems.  The closest thing I've seen is a guy that cut out pretty much every carbohydrate for six months and got sick from that.

I'm still looking though, since the illnesses that people got from playing pray species got me to rethink getting my family on a plant-based diet.

Gah.  Stupid brokeness, and frustrating hundreds of soup mixes I have to figure out how to go through!