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!
1 comment:
Hi!
A few months back now I went to the doctor with certain symptoms that I knew, from having been around others, that were diabetic in nature. I was actually surprised when the doc said I was PRE-diabetic - but if I didn't clean up my eating... I started really reading labels. Being single, living alone, I was almost all frozen foods - which all have high fructose corn syrup. Once I eliminated almost everything with that evil substance (I'm still human and my food stamps are only $16 a month, so ...) the majority of my symptoms disappeared! So reading someone else having this journey - AND having this journey with small children, which I don't have - is enlightening and informative! Thanks for sharing!!!
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