So, for most people eating from food storage is, well, an I’ll-do-it-when-I’m-dying-of-starvation experience.  In other words, not so tasty.  However, that just doesn’t happen at our house.  I don’t know what the green thumb-equivalent of cooking is, but Missy’s got it.  Who knew that you could make so many really tasty dishes out of rocks, dirt, and twigs?  

My favorite things about not store shopping:

1. Whole wheat homemade tortillas – Wow. Who needs fresh vegies when you’ve got those. Really, I never knew tortillas could be amazingly good. Of course, it’s probably mostly just Melissa’s amazing cooking magic. One of these days I’m going to be a good husband and buy/make her a tortilla press.
2. Bread. Good (really good) bread. She’s moved to making more of the skip-the-pan-artisan-style breads. so tasty & fancy. I think that may partially be a product of having a short toaster oven and that bread in pans gets burnt on the top because it rises too much, but still.  Delicious and beautiful.

But most of the time I don’t notice we’re "roughing it." Melissa just makes such good food no matter what. Shift to vegitarian? No problem. Vegan? Sure thing. No groceries? Piece of cake. How does she do it? I have no idea. Amazing. Simply amazing.