Monday, November 8, 2010
From Kate
Out of nowhere and direct from Kate's mouth to my ears today: "Mommy, I love being four years old." Yes, Kate, I bet you do. :)
Saturday, November 6, 2010
Organic Food Update
Quick update on our food change. It seems to be working! Ashton's having more green faced days at school, Paul and I have had the energy to hit the gym 4-5 days a week, I've lost 7 lbs and Kate, well, she always ate well.
We aren't 100% organic and unprocessed 100% of the time, but have focused on organic dairy (to help keep the hormones away from Kate's undeveloped body), organic produce for items that would be directly sprayed with chemicals(apples, grapes, etc) as opposed to items in the ground such as onions, traded up for much better tasting free range eggs and eliminated almost all high-fructose corn syrup. (I even have HFC free ketchup, but can't find a similar Ranch dressing product). It was shocking as I paid attention to the food labels of the products I was buying and where I found high fructose corn syrup. I may pay $7 a bottle for pasta sauce, but it tastes as good as it is healthy.
The other thing that I think has been of tremendous health benefits is we are getting away from the "meat and two" mentality. Instead of thinking of dinner as meat-centered and a veggie and carb side, I plan our meals around veggies/fruit in season with meat as a seasoning or side. This is proven to be less expensive and I think helps us up our fruit/veggie intake.
Great examples:
Stir Fry
Pasta dishes (just tried the butternut squash pasta sauce from Costco and Ashton loved it!)
Rice and veggie casseroles
Seafood dishes
Curries
I hope you've made some changes and are feeling better too!
We aren't 100% organic and unprocessed 100% of the time, but have focused on organic dairy (to help keep the hormones away from Kate's undeveloped body), organic produce for items that would be directly sprayed with chemicals(apples, grapes, etc) as opposed to items in the ground such as onions, traded up for much better tasting free range eggs and eliminated almost all high-fructose corn syrup. (I even have HFC free ketchup, but can't find a similar Ranch dressing product). It was shocking as I paid attention to the food labels of the products I was buying and where I found high fructose corn syrup. I may pay $7 a bottle for pasta sauce, but it tastes as good as it is healthy.
The other thing that I think has been of tremendous health benefits is we are getting away from the "meat and two" mentality. Instead of thinking of dinner as meat-centered and a veggie and carb side, I plan our meals around veggies/fruit in season with meat as a seasoning or side. This is proven to be less expensive and I think helps us up our fruit/veggie intake.
Great examples:
Stir Fry
Pasta dishes (just tried the butternut squash pasta sauce from Costco and Ashton loved it!)
Rice and veggie casseroles
Seafood dishes
Curries
I hope you've made some changes and are feeling better too!
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