Hello Paleo!

Well hello again. It has been awhile since I have blogged. We moved again. I have been going through a lot of personal exploration lately. I like change, it helps me grow. I am making a major change in my families life and I would like to use this blog to document what we are doing and the results we have good or bad. The change I am speaking of is switching to the Paleo/Primal lifestyle. Living in Mississippi it is like watching a salmon trying to swim upstream to eat and live this way. I am ready to challenge conventional wisdom on nutrition. I am tired of autoimmune diseases and sickness, I am ready for vitality and life. Going gluten free did major things to improve our health, time to take it a step further, time to go Paleo. I invite you to follow along or join me in this change, share your ideas, reconsider everything you think about healthy eating.

What's In The Box Wednesday?

Here are some pictures from this weeks CSA share, my children Love the baby carrots!  The taste difference is amazing and it is wonderful to be able to speak every week with the people who grow our food!  No pesticides to worry about!

Love,
Good Food Mom

What's In The Box Wednesday?

Every Wednesday I go pick up our share from the CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) farm we participate with.  We get a family meat & produce share, an extra meat share, 2 loaves of Amish Bread, and a bag of handmade Amish pasta which costs us $116.00 per week and of course the amount and variety of things we receive changes throughout the season.  I will show you what kind of things you can purchase from local farmers in most parts of the country by going to http://www.localharvest.org/ and finding your local CSA program, our local program is http://www.avalon-acres.com/ .  If you can't access a CSA you can also find Farmer's Markets locally and even try growing some of your own food!  I think this is what God intended for us to eat, not food that's been fattened up in a lab and shipped in from thousands of miles away.  It's local, it's organic, it's free range and grass fed, it's green, it comes from the USA, I don't care if it costs me a little bit more than non-organic, corn fed, cooped up foreign food at the grocery store because I think the health benefits, earth benefits, community benefits, far out way the cost difference, plus it just plain taste better and my children know that food comes out of the ground instead of cellophane!

Enjoy this weeks picks/pic's I know we will!

Becoming a Food Snob . . . .

I have never liked snobs. My dad is a truck driver and my mom is a waitress, I am from Mississippi. I have been trying to not be part of the redneck culture for a long time, when my advanced English teacher tried to teach us how to properly pronounce words I hung on everything he said. When my dad would take us out on the bass boat I would draw sketches of the woods and lake instead of fishing. I used to cringe when I would here my own voice on a recording because of my Southern accent. Oh well, I will be 30 in about 2 weeks and I am giving up on all of that, it's like I used to say when people told me I needed a tan, I have come to terms with the fact that I am white. What am I talking about! Well I have decided to become a SNOB! A Food Snob that is. I have five beautiful children now who depend on me to feed them and they are simply not going to eat the way I used to feed my self. I have been developing a self education in nutrition in the past four years since my son was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes at 21 months old. God has really opened up my eyes to the epidemic of bad food we as Americans eat! So now what? I want to share with you what I have discovered in my effort to feed my family and myself better food so that we as a country can have better health. Oh yeah and as a Stay at Home Mom of five on one income, with medical expenses we are on a "Budget" so I always consider cost! I have been called a food snob and a food Nazi, but I have decided instead to make myself a food super hero and become "The Good Food Mom!" Follow along with me and see what alternatives there are to what we have been guilted, peer pressured, expected, advertised, brainwashed, etc. into feeding our family's! WARNING-some food "manufacturer's" may become angry with me.

Love,

Jamie the Good Food Mom