Healthy Eating, Day 1

Day one is always easy on any eating program (at least for me). Basically I started going grain free with no unnatural sugar (or artificial sweeteners) today. The hardest part so far is getting used to cooking with cast iron. When I would make eggs, I would leave about 75% stuck in the skillet, and then I'd have to spend a long time cleaning the skillet, repeat for next meal. Today, this problem was solved thanks to this Prairie Homestead blog entry! For the first time, I have successfully made scrambled eggs in a cast iron skillet with the pan remaining clean (no egg stuck on it). It requires cooking with more fat (which is hard because I'm so used to cooking with as little oil/butter as possible to omit the calories), and letting it get hot enough before putting in the scrambled eggs. Once they are in, leave them alone for a few seconds to form a sort of "crust" and then swish them around until they are done. So simple, except for the fear of overusing fat. That's one of those habits that will take time to break, but I'm sure I'll get there.

My skillet after just a wipe out post-scrambled eggs.