The Home-Cooked Challenge

I think those of us who need a Home-Cooked Challenge all have a different reason for needing it. Maybe meals have become too fast or too processed. Maybe we’re not eating as many fruits and vegetables as we’d like, or we’ve fallen into a rut of taco and pizza nights and not much else (and believe me, I am not dissing taco and pizza nights). Maybe, as with our family, the snacks that were meant as occasional treats have quietly taken over.

This week, KJ Dell’Antonia and her family are trying to do “The Home-Cooked Challenge” and have gotten rid of all the processed food in their house. “For me,” Dell’Antonia said, “it is only partly about ‘replacing’ the prepared foods. It is also about the things we eat that we wouldn’t eat if they weren’t so easily available.” The goal of the challenge is to see how differently her family eats (very differently, I imagine), but I’d be more interested in seeing how her grocery spending changes. Once you have the ingredients on hand, you could probably make a lot of bread at very little cost.

Photo: Bradley Stemke

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