Paleo Traveling

In the past when traveling, I have cooked for a month ahead of time, freezing food for my girls. Then, when the time comes for our trip, I pack it all in an ice chest.  While we travel we have to keep getting fresh ice, stay where we are sure there is a refrigerator, etc... you get the picture. If we were traveling by air, I would check the ice chest like luggage. I would have enough packed for 2 girls for a week or longer depending on the length of our trip. In the beginning stage of gut healing, the girls followed the SCD. Meeting their food needs during this time was very stressful and nerve wracking in general, and definitely took the fun out of vacation.
This summer the girls went to camp. I didn't want to have to go through all that again especially since their guts seem to be doing well and they are no longer following the SCD. Plus an ice chest with pre-frozen food is probably not all that tasty, not to mention they are older and realize other people don't eat like we do :s Our whole family is Paleo now and I decided it was time for a new travel plan.
So this time I loaded the suitcase with these:

We also took Lara bars and Terra sweet potato chips.

These provided them with protein and some snacks. Then I told them they could eat whatever salads, vegetables and fruits they were serving at camp. I think this was probably a lot more appetizing for them and worked great for me!

They were definitely happy campers!!

Maine by the Sea

The last couple of days of our trip we decided to go to Maine. We loved Maine as much as New Hampshire. It was just as beautiful with gorgeous gardens and quaint little cottages all along the Maine seacoast and little inlets.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Notice that cute little dog looking out of the door window. He had probably never seen someone drive by take a picture of his house :)

 

We stayed at the most charming hotel. It was an old hotel that had been remodeled and kept beautiful through the years. It actually had locks on the doors, not the newer kind where you use the little card. There was NO t.v. either which we didn't miss at all, especially since we don't have t.v. at home anyway.

 

 

The best part of all, I felt so clean!! Usually in hotels I get a yucky dirty feeling (and we are very careful where we stay). There was even this hanging in the bathroom...all GREEN clean too!

The little garden outside our window.

 
 

And what would Maine be without lobster. We ate at Mabels...twice! It was soo good the first night, we decided to go back again the second night. It wasn't anything fancy, just good simple REAL food. Like lobster and fresh vegetables. No fluffy fillers.

 

All too soon, it came to an end,

 

a very beautiful end.

 

 

 

Our Own Little Trip

While our girls were at camp, Doc B and I had our own little trip. We had such a wonderful time. We decided that America is so beautiful, who needs to travel abroad. There is more right here in our own country than we ever realized. We even liked our trip better than a cruise. We had no schedule. We ate when we wanted and took trips at our leisure. Our time together was blessed as well as our girls week at camp. The first part of the week we spent in New Hampshire. Neither one of us had ever been and we were both very surprised and amazed by its beauty!

We didn't realize when we planned our trip that we were actually in a popular tourist area. However, we chose instead to go the back roads and were very glad that we did. We saw the most lush, gorgeous gardens, including veggies and fruits as well as flowers. I would have thought with their cold winter weather that wouldn't be possible. I guess though they don't have the scorching heat and drought that we do which usually kills our gardens here in the south by mid summer.

 

Love the laundry hanging in the background...just like me :)

 

 

My husband loved the hotbeds (like a greenhouse in the ground) you see in the background here.

We assume they heat with wood since most houses had large stacks close by.

 

 

Just had to get a pic of these goats. Not sure why since we have had dairy goats of our own. Maybe that's why, I think they're actually cute :)

We've never had sheep though.