Supper from our backyard!

Supper tonight was awesome! We ate chicken, broccoli and rice casserole, green beans and bread. For dessert we ate apple turnovers. It felt great to  see the fruits of all our hard work. The chicken was the chicken that we raised, killed and processed ourselves. We used the first batch of broccoli from our garden and the green beans and apple pie filling we canned the year before. 
This was the first meal that we have had where over half of the meal was grown, raised and processed ourselves. It felt great to see all of our hard work pay off in a delicious meal. This motivates me to soon have a meal where 100% is grown or processed ourselves. After the meal tonight, I can really see that it is an attainable goal. Everything tasted so fresh and delicious.
I loved knowing exactly where the food came from (our backyard!!) and what the chicken was feed and that nothing was sprayed on the vegetables and that they are non-GMO foods. Food cannot get any fresher that that! The best way to know what exactly you are putting in your body is to do it yourself.  At the grocery store there are so many hidden ingredients in foods that are bad for you or foods that are genetically modified that most people have no idea what goes into their bodies. It would be great to know that when the next news article comes out about some food that is contaminated with e coli, or salmonella that I wont have to worry about getting sick. 
We also canned homemade strawberry syrup with strawberries we bought from a local farmer. When we cannot grow enough food to can, it feels good knowing that we can support local farmers and the fruit was picked that day at the field beside the vegetable stand we buy it from! Our goal is to produce everything ourselves, yet until that happens, we love to support local farmers. We do not want to go to the grocery store for anything other than basics like toilet paper.Tonight was a big step in our goal , it proved to us it is possible! 

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