A Few Thoughts on the Daniel Fast and Our Menu Plan for the Week
A few things I’ve realized this week while we’ve been on the Daniel Fast:
- It seems like we center everything around food; meeting friends for coffee, getting together for the Super Bowl or even just watching TV at night when the kids are in bed.
- I’m having a problem with giving up coffee. We’re best friends. What can I say?
- The first three days I slept many hours and had headaches. Headaches are gone now and the naps have stopped. Hallelujah!
- We’ve been eating a lot of homemade french fries with homemade ketchup. This stuff is seriously awesome. We will continue to eat this after our fast is over. Probably with a cheeseburger.
- It’s all just food, right? It’s not a big deal. That’s what I keep telling myself. I’m learning some good self-control, which I need. And I have to say my Jesus time has been really good this last week (when I haven’t been sleeping!). He’s been showing us new things, changing our way of thinking, bringing us from glory to glory. It’s been amazing! And I know things will continue to get even better from here on out. Jesus is so good!
Okay. I’m about to bore you with my meal plan. You can go to a different blog now if you want. I won’t be sad.
Potatoes and rice, people, that’s what we’re eating. For being a “foodie”, I’m kind of boring.
As I started typing this week’s meal plan I realized it was pretty much the same as last week. (Told you I was boring!). So, if you’re really curious to see what we’ll be eating you can look at our meal plan from last week. I do have plans for eating a ton of this Mexican Rice, though. I can’t get enough of it. It’s that good! And a friend gave me some vegetarian chili, which is about to end up on top of some baked potatoes. Yum!
I hope everyone has a fabulous week!
– Jill
It must be so hard giving up coffee I don’t know what I would do
Yeah, it hasn’t been easy. I realize now that I was drinking way too much coffee! When we’re done with this fast, I’ll have to keep it in moderation.
Great post Jill. I found it really encouraging and I enjoyed reading the new-to-me Daniel fast recipes. I hope you don’t mind I pinned a bunch of them!
I just saw you pinned some! Don’t forget the homemade ketchup! Today I’m making homemade spaghetti sauce and if it turns out I’ll put that up sometime soon. It’s really hard to find a store bought spaghetti sauce that isn’t full of crap.