Just a note, Paul and I recently watched the documentary "Food, Inc" and it scared the beejeezus out of us both. If you haven't seen it, I highly recommend. Michael Pollan is featured in the documentary and I've read his book - "In Defense of Food" and really agree with his thoughts, particularly following the recent salmonella/egg outbreak.I just spent 45 minutes walking around WalMart searching for food to put in Kate's lunch that we have to provide each day she's in daycare and Ashton's daily snack that did not have the main ingredients as high fructose corn syrup, sugar or some other random ingredient list. My goodness...even the Mott's applesauce has high fructose corn syrup in it (except two select varieties). But, after a week of little to no eating out, mostly organic and higher quality food, Paul and I both agree that we are feeling much better. He's had the energy to work out and I've been sick, but not sluggish. Ashton and Kate seem to be in better spirits as well. I think that going forward, to be sustainable, I'll try to focus on feed our family seasonal produce, organic dairy (to reduce the amount of hormones already large Kate is exposed to) and grass fed meat and free range eggs.
We are also planning on taking the kids to more working farms, farmers markets and really making sure they understand where their food comes from.
I highly recommend the change, it's worth the investment of both time and money.
The way I view the way our family eats is this, if I'm not spending the money to feed us well, I may as well plan to spend the money on medicine to heal us and I'd rather be proactive instead of reactive.
As the kids have had multiple visits to the dentist (Ashton's had a root canal!), my mother's been ill with mysterious digestive issues, my aunt is diagnosed with breast cancer, my father has issues eating foods and my husband's family has a terrible history of health problems, I have to really work and am trying to make sure my children have some sort of chance at health and happiness... We'll see if this is sustainable, and I hope it is, but even if it's not, I suppose every little bit helps.
Food Inc., check it out along with reading "In Defense of Food". Life changing.
