It’s amazing how much thought and effort goes into our lives when it comes to family, kids, clothes, hair, job, home decorating and social life just to name a few. Unfortunately, the food we eat every day isn’t necessarily on that list unless we’re deciding flavor, drive-up options, or which ready-to-eat concoction to remove from it’s box and heat in three minutes max.
It’s not necessary to be so radical as to refuse to eat anything that’s not organic or was grown on a corporate farm. However, it is necessary to make the extra effort to learn why some foods sustain our health and other foods destroy our health, and shop and cook accordingly. There are many good books dealing with all these areas.
Keep things simple and you’ll have more success. My own personal guideline lists whole grains, vegetables and beans and legumes as the most important. Also important and delicious are seeds and nuts, fruit and some meat (mostly chicken), and cheeses. Condiments, olive oil, herbs and spices make things interesting.
I fry very little, maybe an egg now and then. Steamed vegetables are so good. I mix all kinds of stuff to make trail mix which I munch on quite freely. And, I finally got a George Foreman grill which I now believe no home should be without. Cooking methods are equally simple. Soups in the winter, salads in the summer, good comfort food anytime, delicious breads, quick sandwiches and wraps and interesting ethnic foods when I’m feeling creative.
You can make your own guidelines personalizing them to suit you, your family and your lifestyle. Then shop with your guide in mind and a few points to consider. Do buy natural and organic as often as possible. Avoid as much processed food as you can. It’s nutritionally dead. You might as well eat dirt. Remember to cook and eat simply and do learn to cook from “scratch”. Look and feel better and have more energy as toxins in your body are replaced by nutrients that sustain and heal on a cellular level naturally.
Once food was just pure food, raised without chemicals, poisons and bio-engineering and technology. Not so today. Everyone needs to get, and stay informed about the food in America. It’s a real eyeopener.
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