Healthier Food Options

After Christmas left my kitchen and body in shambles (mentioned in my last post), I'm trying some new food choices.  My inspiration for these changes comes from a blog I ran across 100daysofrealfood.com. On her blog she makes a pledge to eat real food for 100 days.  I'm not making that same pledge, there are some areas where I can't budge, but I am trying to be as close to her pledge as possible.

I have been super successful in implementing her pledge otherwise.  We have doubled our fruit and vegetable intake, cut our meat intake in half, and focused on eating mostly whole grains.  This isn't a timed pledge for me, for me it's a new lifestyle choice so my family can live a healthier and happier life.

Here are some reasons I'm not making the complete pledge:

• My husband doesn't believe in organic. I am indifferent.
• I have spent the last year collecting a surplus of food in case of an emergency.  I can't throw away or overlook my months worth of spaghetti noodles and justify buying whole wheat spaghetti noodles.  Although I have made the pledge to buy whole food items for my food storage in the future.
• I think white and brown sugar are a necessary evil when I have cravings and we already use honey for a majority of our food preparation, so I'm blurring the lines.
• Lastly, my husband uses Yoplait yogurt to treat his chronic canker sores, which breaks most of her pledge.

Check out her blog and see if there are any improvements you can make in your diet, but be cautious on her advice to watch Food, Inc.  That's one movie I wish I hadn't watched! and I still would have made the changes.