When I was with my previous husband him and I tried the vegetarian living. He was in it longer but while it lasted for me I came up with this little sandwich. Years have gone and this still is one of my favorite thing to eat for lunch. What’s in it?
In the pita bread (this one is whole wheat) I put:
LOVE LOVE LOVE it! Very easy and very healthy too.
Bombarding you with days of photo updates since my computers are all sick… So here’s day 46. I make Jovie’s baby food. And Emma’s when she was a baby. We do buy pre-made food but we only use them when we’re traveling or we forgot to grab some before we leave the house. We just think that it’s better and we know exactly what’s in our kids’ stomach. It doesn’t take long to make either and when they get to 8-months, like what Jovie is now, I can add more spices.
This one is potatoes, sweet peas, and grass fed ground beef with a clove of garlic sauteed in olive oil. After all is done I put it in a blender and store in ice cube trays to freeze. That night I made this dish and also a tofu, carrots dish a dash of ginger dish. For fruits I blended up some pears and apples. I now have enough food for 1-2 weeks. Besides the above, in the same week, she’d also eats bananas and avocado. I don’t blend those, I just scrape them with a fork and feed her. Jovie also have been eating yogurt and loves plain tofu. She’s also of the age to eat them raw so I’ll just mash up a bit of tofu and feed her for snacks. She gets a variety of things; she loves her meals!
I am a foodie. I love all sorts of good food and I never count calories or figure its nutrient content as long as the food was made fresh. I got it from my grandpa and my aunt whom I lived with during my high school years… and kind of my dad although he can be off and on. I was taught that good food are fresh and made from scratch and that eating is not just about stuffing your stomach with edible (food like) content but it’s about nourishment. Without your body you’re nothing so you got to take really good care of it. If you have a family cooking is also a good way to show love. You love your family enough to make you want to wake up early in the morning to go to the market (to get the fresh and best picks) and spend hours in the kitchen prepping (this is if you’re in Indonesia). I was also told to eat proportionately and exercise (which I ignore right now – I am eating for two still) — dieting is stupid. Granted I had my share of junk food and even now and then I crave McDonalds (although I’d regret it half way through my hamburger) I can say that I eat well.
Food is very important to me and I’ve been very fortunate to have found partners who share the same food ideology. Due to a misdiagnosis my ex and I started eating organic and natural products. If possible we’d by our veggies from the Saturday farmer’s market. This was around 1998. Life took a turn and I met my husband — who used to eat cold soup straight from the can. The first time I made him fresh, from scratch, spaghetti he got heart burns. I thought that’d be the end of our dating life but he was willing to try again and slowly he became a foodie too — sometimes I think more so than me.
I’ve also been fortunate in terms of friends. Those close to me on a daily basis love food and are good cooks. It’s wonderful to be able to share recipes, new information, and things like that. The resources I’ve gathered from them have helped shape our current food intake.
This year we’ve decided to do more. On my part I wanted to make more things from scratch. On his part he wanted us to eat less meat. I’ve always wanted to eat less meat but coming from a family of meat eaters (I’m not sure if being from the South adds to it or not) it was hard to convince him. Michael Pollan convinced him and I’m glad.
Last week Drew started reading Omnivore’s Dilemma and today I started In Defense of Food. I read Omnivore over a year ago and that’s what made me get grass fed meat and more into growing our own produce. I know there are many books that talks about food but Pollan’s books were the ones we ended up with. We’d like to see Food Inc. Although we’d probably not want to eat anything but our own grown food after it.
To some we’re weird and it pisses me off. It’s not because they think we’re weird but it’s because my husband gets made fun of at his work for bringing real food. I’m very glad he’s the outspoken one but it still pisses me off.
We didn’t get the products just because it was featured in Oprah. We knew about it from a friend and after talking to Susan, who coincidently stamps too, and is a distributor we decided to purchase.
We’ve been getting greener and greener each and everyday. Since I was in Boise, I have been into organic/natural and healthy food, and it wasn’t hard to persuade Drew to convert. It’s like one of those thing, once you’ve tried it, you can’t go back. Although a few things taste a bit weird, for example many organic wheat pasta, taste like cardboard, many things really make your food taste better. Plus, I really believe that due to our food intake, we hardly get sick. Emma just got over a minor cold but this was the first time she got sick this year. For a toddler who goes to daycare/school, I think that says a lot. Anyway, even though the cost is slightly higher (and in Warrensburg, you need to go to a few different stores/vendors to get all that you need), we thought that the benefits outweighs the cost and really, since we’re both working, we can’t really say we can’t afford it. Eating healthy has also forced me to make many more things from scratch. I can’t make pasta from scratch but many other easy items, e.g. pancakes, waffles, pasta sauce, we do.
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I have this obsession, or desire, to move or at least check out Vermont. If you read the previous post you would have read about the different states that I’m interested in. I have no stinkin’ idea why or how I got to VT but I really want to go there. I looked at houses a few days ago, in Stowe. There’s this one super cute one for $299k. Love it!
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