(Waiting in line for the Toy Story ride at California Adventure.)
President's Day weekend was our ONE year anniversary on GAPS! I couldn't believe it had already been one year. It has flown by so quickly!
We decided to celebrate BIG, so we took the whole family over to California for a week. We told them we were going to Disneyland, but we also surprised them with Legoland when we got there.
I was a bit nervous to go, we hadn't been on a real vacation, since starting GAPS. We had been to our family's cabin a few times, but only for a few days, and this trip was going to be 7 days. Luckily we were able to book our time share, so I knew we would have a kitchen.
So the food planning began. The week before I decided to quadruple the meals we ate, so I could take double to California. (Usually I double, so we can have leftovers for lunch the next day.) I made a spaghetti meat sauce, chicken alfredo, cauliflower sausage soup, moroccan beef, took meat over for hamburgers, some chicken and hot dogs. Wow, that was a lot of food that week. Then, I decided to make all snacks beforehand too. (50 sausages, 4 loaves of bread, 75 little pancakes, graham crackers, yogurt, sauerkraut, broth, trail mix, and of course, some chocolate). I just wanted to reheat when we got over there, instead of making the dishes once we got there. So, two ice chests later, we drove over to California.
It was a good thing most everything was prepared, because when we got over there, the kitchen had been the smallest kitchen I had ever seen in a time share. They had a 2 burner stove, no oven, a microwave and a refrigerator. (I'm glad it was a full size refrigerator!) I had to adjust a little, but it all worked out just fine! I bought all our veggies and fruits in California.
We took our food into Disneyland and Legoland. Both days were the same. I heated soup in the morning for our lunch w/ bread, and we had cold waffles, boiled eggs and avocados for dinner. It wasn't deluxe, but it worked!
We had so much fun, and it was nice not having to meal plan, shop, and fix from scratch 3 meals a day for a whole week. It felt like a true vacation!
It was a lot of work leading up to it, but it was worth it. It's harder to vacation as much as we used to, because the prep work is a lot, but it's fun and I think crucial to do it every once in a while!
LEGOLAND!
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DISNEYLAND!
We were lucky to have my sis-n-law and neice Navy come with us too!
Keep Eatin' Fat!
Brittney
