Right now, I’m reading a book about food.  I know!  My exciting life!  –No, but really…this book is all kinds of awesome.  It’s educating and eye-opening and is really causing us to take a closer look at what we are putting in our bodies.  And, we’re ready to make some changes.

Meat – We had both been under the impression that all lean meats were best, but that’s simply not true.  Our country is on this whole low-fat kick (skim and low fat milks, cheeses, meats, drinks, etc) and it’s costing our bodies!  So, rather than focusing SO much on finding the leanest cuts, but more on WHERE IT CAME FROM.  We’ll be trying to choose hormone and antibiotic meats, as well as free/pasture range and fed.

Eggs/Dairy – Raw milk, handmade cheeses and butter from raw milk, and fresh farm eggs are also on the new list.  The antibiotics going into our bodies from milk products is CRAZY and turns out that the additives in the low fat milk we were getting are absolutely disgusting and horrid for us.

Fresh fruits and veggies – most of which will come from our own garden , while others we will buy or barter for, making sure the bulk of them are organic and not treated with pesticides and other chemicals

Fresh herbs

Sugar substitutes like honey, agave, and stevia

And, then of course…we’ll work on finding a better sea salt product, eliminating and finding a substitute for baking powder, learning to implement sugar substitutes into our cooking, grinding our own grains or at least switching from the plain white flour we use now, choosing extra virgin olive oil instead of just regular olive oil, and finding a better alternative to our current water source (distilled, maybe?).

Granted, this will be a slower process since we’ll be using what we have first and replenishing our stock with the better alternatives.  In a perfect world, we’d just throw out the CRAP foods and replace them immediately but our pocket book will need careful re-arranging, and most likely sacrifices in other areas in order to allow for these expenditures.  And, when it comes to eating out or being guests, we will choose to nurture our relationships and not sacrifice the things that matter most.  (Still, all things in moderation.)

I’m incredibly excited but a little nervous…

SUGAR!?!

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