Au Naturale

Kent and I have been talking lately about getting serious about choosing healthier meat options.  As it is becoming more and more apparent that the meat and eggs in our grocery stores are anything but natural (or good for you) we have decided to go ahead and make the jump to organic and natural meat for a one year trial.
Yay! and Ugh!
Yaaay, because we like to eat and care about what we eat. Ugh, because it will mean "so long" to that economy sized bag of Costco frozen chicken...you and your saline solution were such a good deal.
We have been hearing awesome things around town about Bill the Butcher so yesterday we kicked off the year with a field trip.
It was the first butcher shop I have been in and was quite impressed...it all felt very European.  Small, personal, and all the people there are chefs who really know their meat.
So we got some dry cured bacon for our cobb salads yesterday (sooo good), and two chicken breasts for tonight's dinner.

Spendy. We might be choosing the vegetarian option at home most nights. But we are excited for the challenge!
Now this doesn't mean we won't have our splurges now and then. Sometimes a couple needs a jumbo jack...don't ask questions just eat. And we won't be picketing for a chicken's right to vote either so just put that Hippie Hate sign away.
But for us, for this house we are ready to eat meat the way we were intended to, for a year at least.