Why a Blog

This is a blog to document our food journey for my own reference as well as friends and family (or anyone else who stumbles upon it). Thanks to Jaime Oliver's Food Revolution and the WONDERFUL Food Inc friends and family are no longer calling me crazy but actually calling and asking for my advice! I am NO EXPERT on health/nutrition or anything of the sort! All I am is a Wife and Mommy who is doing the very best she can do provide her family with the wonderful food God has given us. I am researching, questioning and praying all in hopes of bringing quality, nutritious foods into my house so that we are able to enjoy food as well as enjoy being healthy and fit.

In 4 months I have lost atleast 40lbs of "baby weight" thanks to the changes in our diet and breastfeeding. I eat ALLLLLL the time! I am careful what I bring into the house so that when I am hungry I only have healthy choices (and lots of them)! I enjoy TONS of fruits and veggies, nuts, avocado (mmmmm, always have them in the house) and a LOADED salad full of all the "goodies" as my grandma says (sans the sweetened dried cranberries, those are reserved for treats :)

I am off all but one of my allergy/asthma medicines (down from 5 at best, 7 at worst), ADHD is not an issue any longer and I feel amazing! I am a busy momma who survives on little sleep and have been able to keep exhaustion and illness away. The same is true for the hubby. His schedule is beyond crazy! I pack his lunches/snacks, and a cup of hot tea each day. He has managed to stay illness free and keep up with his schedule. My toddler is amazing and her behavior is predictable. She is cranky when tired or hungry.....who isn't! Her behavior is night and day when comparing how we eat on a regular basis vs a day where she has had a "treat" at a bday party of family gathering. The days we deviate from our normal eating I pray for patience!! Her constant runny nose is a thing of the past as is her eczema. Woohoo for food ;)

No, I'm not saying food cures all or is the cause of all.....but I believe it is a huge factor. God provided us with amazing things to eat and we have taken them, changed them and tried to create something "better".....really?? It seems that the further away we get from eating food as God created it we end up with more illness, more obesity and more hunger (I'm amazed at how I can be hungry after eating a large order of fries!! What's in those things???) What the Bible Says about Healthy Living discuss much of this.....as does Food Inc. My favorite "food rule" from the movie is that we shouldn't eat anything our grandmother (or great grandmother) wouldn't recognize as food.....makes things pretty simple :)