My husband loves to make chili, which is a welcome dinner at our house in the wintertime.  His chili is delicious and he has even won several friendly chili cook-offs.  Anyway, I made his recipe the other day with four pounds of meat and one pound of kidney beans.  I fixed everyone’s bowl and then filled mine.  I grew absorbed in my thoughts and did not notice that my family all helped themselves to seconds.

Later I got up and to my disbelief all the chili was gone.  Not a spoonful was left.  In fact, it looked as though someone had licked the pot.  I was mad.  I confronted my family about where all the food went.  They looked at me with blank stares.  I explained to them the amount of food I had prepared and how I thought it was ridiculous that there were rarely any leftovers.

My husband finally spoke.  In a matter-of-fact voice, he said, “Well, Lara, if you want leftovers or seconds, I guess you’re going to have to cook five pounds of meat.”

Ahhhhh! I cannot stay mad at him for long even when I want to.  Now five pounds of chili has become an inside joke in our family.

I was helping Lane make chili again this week.  As I was chopping onions, I was absent-mindedly humming Christmas carols.  The Twelve Days of Christmas came to mind and instead of singing “Five Golden Rings”, I sang “Five Pounds of Chili.”  From there we came up with our own version of this song.

When you are raising five growing children, your grocery bill is high.  When you are raising five growing children on the Specific Carbohydrate Diet, it is out of this world.  And, we don’t depend on the grocery store for all of our food needs.  So don’t be alarmed by our list.  As my husband says, “It is what it is.”

In Twelve Days of Eating at the DeHaven household, we consume…

12 cups of almond flour,
11 sticks of butter,
10 dozen eggs,
9 gallons of iced tea,
8 pints of yogurt,
7 apples each day,
6 pounds of honey,
5 p0unds of chili,
4 pounds of cheese,
3 links of sausage,
2 bunches of bananas, and
1 bottle of stevia.

Though this list might seem unbelievable to some, sadly it is pretty accurate.  The bigger your family, the bigger your food bill.  That goes without saying.  However as much as we have benefited from eating on the SCD protocol, the cost of eating on it needs to be considered before beginning.  One thing that I keep in mind to justify the expense is that we are eating healthier, our bodies feel great, and we have virtually no health expenses other than food.

I hope you don’t mind our silly song.  It was just timely and, for us, fun.

Tags: 12 days of Christmas, 12 days of Eating, cost of SCD, DeHaven Household, SCD, silly song

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