"In the end, as always, it’s about knowing what you’re buying and who you’re buying from, and eating in moderation."
As spring starts to appear I have been thinking about cleaning up my diet, and helping promote a healthier diet to those around me. The boys have been served the same food for years (any fast food) so they are accustomed to it and like it. I just don't get how Taco Bell is "soooooo good" and then 20 minutes after eating it they all are complaining of stomach aches. Darren and I watched a documentary a couple of weeks ago called Food Inc. It was about the food industry and how everything is a factory set up to produce more and more. They are creating a monopoly and making it impossible for the independant farmer to sell any thing or stay in business. Cows are being genetically modified to be meatier. Chickens are growing breasts 4 times the natural size in half the time, so that their legs cant keep up and they collapse after one step. Those are the dark parts of the movie, the message at the end was know what your buying and try to support organic growers. If the majority of people shopping at a grocery store are buying the earth friendly products and organic things the store will get the message and start bringing in more options of what the shopper is interested in.
In light of the recent commercials saying that corn syrup is just corn, and the ever increasing numbers of diet pills and new spins put on fast food as healthy. I am ready to boycott it all and start a farm of my own. Veggies, eggs, milk and meat all raised under the pure idea of growing them how God would have. Darren and I have been struggling with diet options for months now feeling fat but not having enough energy to fight it a buy better food. It is a huge factor to have to fight the boys on their complaints about what they like or don't, but what are we teaching them then?
So I am going to try it this week for the good of myself and my husbands bodies, and the possibility of teaching the boys something they might not have had before. I will plan and buy meals that are better for us, and still creative.
