What is your journey like in trying to eat healthfully? I have been trying all my life to eat right, but much of the time my diet was far from healthful. I will talk about where I have come from and where I am going in this lifelong adventure called healthful eating.
My family of origin was not tuned into whole wheat bread, vegetarianism, sugar reduction. So as a child I loved Wonder Bread, Ho-Ho's, lots of candy, Slim Jim sausages, pot roast, pot pies, packaged cakes and pies of every description. Carrot sticks and Celery sticks were something we made for parties, just like deviled eggs.
Later, in my 20's, I snuck out to fill the car with gas while my husband watched the kids. I purchased Suzy Q snack cakes or the like, and consumed them blissfully-but guiltily on the way home. I reasoned that there was a little nutrition in the sweet treats.
Later, in my 30's, a friend and I decided to leave off all sugar and fat for a few months. We often made some wonderful potato soup with cashew cream. We had a cook book we referred to as "our cookbook" because it was vegetarian and was written to be therapeutically ascetic about sugar and fat. We tried recipes from it, fed them to our growing kids and reported the results to each other.
I wanted to feed my family healthfully. I talked about it and took interest in it. I always served cooked vegetables at every meal. However, although I talked about healthful salads and fresh stuff, I did not serve them much or eat them much. I hated to work with salad materials, it seemed so putzy and it took so long to clean it! And the water was COLD! So, I ate and served cooked food. My family and I were missing out on the real nutrition of fresh greens.
Today I am eating greens and fresh things more. Some days I do better than others. I live in a rural area and the grocery stores sometimes lack a good supply of attractive fresh foods. But I bought a juicer and juice whenever I have the green veggies and the time. My children who are grown are also doing this because we have all talked about the importance of fresh green food.
Just this morning I started my own sprouts. I am excited about trying this out!
On her DVD she takes her aunt to the store to talk about what to eat for optimum health. Her aunt says she will have a time when she craves something that is bad for her. Kris asked her what she will do if she could not eat the Snickers Bar, or whatever. She said she would cry.
Kris said, "So cry, and eat the *^##** watermelon." She said this with a calm, matter-of-fact, and gentle way.
That has become a little saying between my husband and myself because it illustrates the strength needed for eating healthfully in a world where foods are created to stimulate the senses and not nurish the body.
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