Farm Cook!

chupacabramamma

Good morning, and happy new year!

I live on a small farm with my brother and his family, and I do the cooking. He's on a weight lifting and weight loss protocol, so I'm logged in here to calculate recipes and get a rough idea of what the family's eating. There are seven of us here, and I'm finding that increasing measurements of ingredients and calculating serving sizes are not just good for the household health, but help the food budget tremendously. I haven't had much weight gain or loss since I moved here, which isn't surprising since excepting shut-in weather and kiddo-watching, I'm on my feet 12 to 15 hours a day. We've got goats, a couple meat steer and small farm pigs. I do most of the child care, plumbing, roofing and a lot of the fence maintenance along with the cooking and kitchen management. So I'm pretty generally active. Probably my biggest deficit is drinking enough water.