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My husband and I went for his annual check up this week and it brought some good reminders that we were getting OLD.  Except for the usual, you need to exercise more and eat healthier, most everything was fine.  But it still let me know that I am getting old and my body is NOT going to last forever.

I have been diligently working these past few years at changing the way that WE eat as a family.  After our doctors appointment I finally got the okay from my husband to serve our whole foods diet that I have been wanting to do exclusively.  As anyone knows, it is super hard to try and stay on track when you have no real support for eating healthy.  I can do really well for a week straight and then the weekend comes and my husband wants to take us to the local pizza buffet.  Or better yet, wants to take us out to Chinese.  Then those few pounds that I worked so hard at losing, take a back seat for pizza!!!Now, that we are BOTH on the same page it makes life sooooo much easier.

I myself have been at a standstill since last year when I put out my modest mom weight loss challenge.   I started out, with good intentions of course, this summer of walking and eating healthy, but life happened and I had excuse after excuse after excuse.  I would work hard one week and then the next week fail.  I just gave up.  Well now that my husband has to make a few adjustments to his diet my healthy eating just took a front seat.

We also are committed to walking at a minimum of 3 times per week.  This will make all the difference in the world.  You can change your diet, but if you eat pretty well the only way to lose that fat is to MOVE.

Why are we doing all of this??  Definitely not to fit into the latest bikini swimwear—we wear a modest dress bathing suit.  We are doing this so that we can be healthy ,live a long happy life, free of pill addiction and medical problems.  I say this with the hopes that the Lord will bless me with abundant health if I hold up my end of the bargain as best I can.

This series is dedicated to all of the “natural alternatives” that my family will be embarking on this year instead of using the traditional methods for healing our bodies.

Up next……look for how I made my first tonic for the flu.

Breakfast for me over the last few years has gone through many changes.  I don’t usually enjoy making breakfast in the morning time.  While having my little ones, be so little, I resorted to an easy method of serving breakfast…..cheerios and milk EVERYDAY.  I would serve a breakfast for dinner one day per week just for fun.

Then I wanted to lose some weight and started serving oatmeal for breakfast instead.  It was easy and good for us.  Well my children got tired of oatmeal.

Now, I get up in the morning and make eggs for breakfast.  Yes, usually each morning, unless I had a bad night, I get up and prepare breakfast beyond oatmeal.  Some of the children prefer that and I can do that, but MAKING breakfast that is big for me.

Now I haven’t gotten to making pancakes and waffles just yet, that takes up WAY too much mess.  I did come across this recipe that is similar.  Another large family  friend of mine told me about a way she used up her eggs by making Swedish pancakes.  Since we have 20 dozen sitting in our refrigerator, I figured I had better use them up!!

If you do a internet search for oven pancakes or dutch oven pancakes, or baked pancakes or Swedish pancakes most all of the recipes are about the same.  I will just call them oven pancakes.

They are so simple to make and require no work, except for mixing. Blend the following together in a bowl:

• 8 eggs
• 2 cups flour
• 2 cups milk
• 1/2 tsp salt

In oven, while you are mixing up your ingredients melt 1 stick butter.  I doubled this recipe and made it in my turkey roaster pan!!!  
It used alot of butter, for future reference I will probably cut out some of the butter maybe down to 3/4 of a stick instead of a whole stick.  I don’t like my stuff greasy.  Even if the butter is good for you.

After melted, pour in your batter and put in the oven.  That is it!! Now let the oven do the work.  400 degrees for about 30 minutes.  The batter poufs up in the pan and it looks something like this.

Strange huh?  Yes, but has a wonderful chewy eggy taste.  We actually went through the entire pan with our family.  It was definitely something that they enjoy.  Plus I used up 16 eggs for one meal!!

We served ours with real maple syrup. I am thinking next time I am going to sprinkle some cinnamon and sugar into the buttery mass in the pan to cut back on the need for syrup.  Possibly sprinkle with some powdered sugar or even serve with our strawberry sauce.  Hmmmm lots of possibilities.  Definitely something worth trying.