FeedingThePrices

{all about healthy eating} Ok, I know it was a rerun, and I’ve actually watched it before {probably was one more bump into the direction of this blog} but it meant even more to me this time around. I am watching it over again, so I can share some of the best points with you, my faithful readers. =)

My motivation is my children.

I love my children. I want to shield them from the truly most difficult thing I have ever struggled with in my life. My weight/health. {Yes, I am aware I lived a somewhat charmed life}. But you also may not know how deeply it affects me every single day of my life. Again, another day, another blog post.

I want my children to grow up healthy, and unlike many of their peers that eat processed food all the time. My goal for them is to eat a variety of “real” healthy food, most of the time. I don’t think junk food and pop {aka soda. I will always call it pop} needs to be eliminated {at least not until I can eliminate it from my own diet.} But I would love for them to be for Friday movie nights, rather than an everyday occurrence.

How do I get there? Cook. What will make me cook more? FeedingThePrices. Aha, it’s all a cycle…

From Oprah:

• We should be eating minimally processed plants, animals, and fungi
• Don’t eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn’t recognize as food
• Avoid products that contain ingredients that a third grader cannot pronounce {I think this is HUGE!}
• Eat only foods that will eventually rot
• Food is alive, and it should die
• We think it’s too expensive when things die. We think we’re wasting food when we throw out a half a head of broccoli, and while we shouldn’t be wasteful, moving toward heavily processed foods to avoid that hurt of throwing out the broccoli isn’t a good trade-off
• Do you want to pay for groceries, or do you want to pay the doctor later?
• The low fat kick made everybody fatter
• Eat all the junk food you want, as long as you cook it yourself
• How often are you willing to make french fries? Maybe once a month? That’s probably as often as we should eat it.
• Cook A LOT!
• Corporations don’t cook that well
• It’s not that hard to eat well if your willing to put a little more time into it, a little more thoughtfulness into it, and yes, a little more cost.
• If you take a dollar, and go to a supermarket and try to buy as many calories as you can for that dollar, you will find yourself on the processed food aisles buying chips, cookies, and snacks, and you will get 1250 calories for that dollar. Take the same dollar to the produce aisle and get only 250 calories for broccoli or carrots. We’ve made it rational to eat badly.
• Consumers are the biggest voice. We get three votes a day, and we don’t have to get every one of them right, but if we just get one right a day and buy foods that are true to your values, we can change the food industry.
• You don’t have to give anything up. Just add healthy foods into your life.
• You can flirt with a healthy lifestyle, you don’t have to jump in all at once

I don’t in any way want to make it seem like I’m up on a soap box. I am SO in the learning process of all this. This blog is nothing but the journey.