I know I’ve talked about this here before, but recently, I’ve had several opportunities for further observation into this matter!
Several times each week, I hear someone tell me that “It’s too expensive to eat healthy food.” I’m also often found on the receiving end of comments like, “We can’t buy all the healthy foods that [...]
Here’s an exceptionally healthy recipe for Chicken Cacciatore I discovered via the Weston A. Price Foundation (www.westonaprice.org). It’s by Amanda Love (a.k.a. The Barefoot Cook). Give it a try and let me know how you like it… and let me know what time dinner will be!!
Chicken Cacciatore
(Serves 6)
* 1 pastured chicken cut into parts (Grassway [...]
Another little recently published article that I thought you might enjoy…
http://articlesmind.com/?id=66916
It’s not that I don’t believe that lunch, dinner and snacks are important… it’s just that we really seem to be blowing it with our breakfast habits! This might be a good starting point for making healthIER – not perfect – choices. If you can [...]
My dad spent the night a couple nights ago on the tail end of our Thanksgiving adventure.
He had to get up pretty early the next morning to head to work, so I made a healthy breakfast and packed some snacks and lunch for him while he got ready. I figured that must be something he [...]
OK, since you asked…
Tonight’s dinner was part one of “cook it once, eat it twice”. Sounds thoroughly disgusting… but it’s not at all! It’s about saving time, money, energy… and planning for healthy choices.
I cooked/browned a couple pounds of grass-fed ground bison. (I cook it in pure coconut oil.) I set a little more than [...]
Here’s another recently published article that might offer you a little guidance in helping your family make healthier food choices.
Spoiler warning: this is VERY simple!! : )
Enjoy, and pass along to another health-seeker!
(Click this link)
http://articlesmind.com/?id=55188
I don’t actually “do” recipes! I know, it infuriates many people who want to know EXACTLY how I make certain healthy meals and snacks.
Sorry – I’m no Rachel Ray or Martha Stewart! Everything I make is pretty basic and kind of “freestyle” cooking! No recipes… 99% of the time, anyway. I’m open to change… especially [...]
You probably guessed today’s mystery “food” pretty easily – macaroni and cheese (the leading brand, who shall remain nameless).
Seems relatively harmless when you read the ingredients with two glaring exceptions, and a few not-so-glaring, sneaky ones.
First, the artificial colors are toxic.
Second, where IS the health-building property of this food? I don’t see the 4 Golden [...]
Just thought I’d share how our family applies my mantra of “Getting healthier isn’t about being perfect… it’s about making better choices more often.”
Creating health through nutrition requires making more pure and sufficient choices, while decreasing the toxic and deficient ones.
Sometimes, I just feel like having a tasty toxin. So there.
Last night was one of [...]
It’s finally here! Your solution for healthy breakfast, lunch and snack ideas… no more confusion, no more scrambling for last minute ideas… this menu will be a LIFESAVER for you, just like it has been for me!!
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How about some very “real life” nutritional and food choice updates? Just to remind you that we are most certainly human… we are NOT perfect… and that getting healthIER does not require perfection, it just requires making better choices more often!
Saturday:
Was a busy day for us since hubby and I were teaching a seminar for [...]
Healthy Breakfast for the Kids
(Click link to watch the video)
Here’s a REAL look at our nutty household in the morning! Complete with silly children, bed head, and the destroyed dining table in the background that the kids transformed into a fort as soon as they woke up!
Welcome to our life!
I’m not sure if you’ll get [...]
I haven’t written the specifics about our food choices for awhile, so I thought I’d post an update about some of our healthy and not-so-healthy choices lately! (Aren’t you glad that I’m honest??!!)
Some of the not-so-healthy choices I can recall from the past several days:
1. The kids polished off a box of cereal last week. [...]
Yesterday was a party day. We headed out on a 2.5 hour venture to attend a family reunion.
I knew we’d be hard pressed to find nutritional purity and sufficiency there – and that’s perfectly OK! – so I made sure of two things:
1) We filled up with health FIRST. We had fresh fruit and “protein [...]
Again, another party tonight! Fun, fun, fun!
That means our focus AGAIN today has been to keep it healthy all day long so we can enjoy “tasty toxins” tonight if we so choose.
Breakfast was fresh fruit, whole milk organic yogurt, and some free-range organic eggs. Shortly after, the kids had almond butter (and grass-fed organic butter) [...]
The overall theme of today is definitely “fill up with health FIRST!”
We’re heading out for a soon-to-be-seven-year-old’s birthday celebration with some other little munchkins. We’re going to the movies and to Rainforest Cafe afterward. I’m not anticipating that we’ll be loading up with purity and sufficiency at either location!
We’d don’t get popcorn when we go [...]
As a parent in a free country, I’d like to think that I’m still allowed to choose how to parent my children. I don’t think that anyone has a more vested interest in the welfare of their child than that child’s parents.
I think it’s my job as a parent to keep my children safe and [...]
OK, fine. I’ll get back into “logging” what I/we eat around here… I’ve heard from several of you that it was helpful to read the reasons WHY I say yes to some things and NO to others.
I’ve also heard that you get a kick reading about my poor choices! Glad to know I have a [...]
Hmmm… I’m thinking I need to change things up here, regarding these nutritional choices posts. I’m looking for a little feedback…
My original intent was to share how I incorporate some healthier choices into my diet (and my kids’), without worrying about being “perfect” or spending TONS of money on better nutrition. Logging my choices for [...]
Another day’s worth of food and beverage choices… some good, some not.
Early morning: 1 cup of coffee, 1/2 cup kefir, 1/2 banana
(Pure & Sufficient): organic coffee (and less of it than usual), organic cream, organic kefir and organic banana
(Toxic & Deficient): I know, I know… the coffee. Causes release of stress hormones (cortisol and catecholamines). [...]
