I’ve spent my holiday free hours reading as much as possible in preparation for our family to spend 30 days eating meals according to the guidelines of the Weston A. Price Foundation and the Price-Pottenger Nutrition Foundation. We’ve been casually moving more and more towards that style of eating and food preparation but I want to give it 30 days of being strict about it.

The biggest challenge for me I think will be making sure that all of our grains (and nuts) are properly soaked – and somewhat reducing our reliance on carbohydrate and start heavy foods. Even though we don’t eat wheat or gluten-containing grains we do eat a lot of rice, corn, and potatoes. I’d like to take some focus off those things.

I’ll blog about it as I go through it and the kids and I will be strict. That means no processed food, and we’re also going no treats with the possible exception of homemade ice cream (made with a WAPF approved recipe). This will be a little tough on me because I have a weakness for a late night snack of Pasta Roni Shells and White Cheddar (I know, it’s horrible!) and ok… I’ll admit it… Ben and Jerry’s Strawberry Cheesecake ice cream.

I’ve read a book on children’s nutrition which was really excellent (I’m going to do a full review of it for the site so stay tuned) and I’m going to try and incorporate the special guidelines for growing children (and nursing mothers) into our diet as much as possible. Scott has agreed to be a guinea pig here at home, but I won’t make promises about what he’ll choose to do at work It would be nice to see this improve the entire family’s health, though.

I have a few more books to get through that have been recommended, but I’m armed with two good cookbooks (though some modifications may have to be made to the aforementioned Art of French Cooking I think it’s pretty WAPF friendly overall) and I’ve been working on scouting food out. Another challenge is working this type of eating into a family budget and a busy schedule.

I’ll be doing full overviews of resources that help us as we go along, and how we’re feeling and keeping up with everything. I’m planning to start on the 12th since we’ll be back into the homeschool routine and that gives me another week to finish my books and plan some meals!