Sorry it's been so long...I don't know if anyone is still checking in. I guess it's been a very busy March.
I definitely fell off the wagon the past couple weeks. I travelled, then got really sick, then had company and was very busy so the whole foods went by the wayside. And it wasn't pretty. It's yucky. I am at a place where my mouth tells me to eat junk, but my body is not used to it and it feels terrible. One week me and the kids were home alone for 2 weeks with influenza. One day I just could not muster up the energy to make anything or go shopping so I got everyone in the car and we went thru the Arby's Drive-thru. It was disgusting. It wasn't even good. Even the kids were like "YUCK!"
Then we had company who brought forbidden foods. At that point when the stuff is in my house, I tend to just eat it...I have no willpower. If someone leaves us pop, I drink it.
Well, finally all of it is gone, and I have a choice to make. I think I need to stay with the whole foods.
Justin has been doing really well the past month and re-committing to whole foods. He is going all the way, eliminating commercial dairy, bread, etc. For him, he can't do the "mostly" thing. If I bake bread, he doesn't stop at eating 1 slice. He just has to forgo all of it. So he immediately lost weight again and feels better. I think once you start eating well, you can digress, but it's not pretty for your body. I just wish it were easier. It's like being an alcoholic that has to live, eat, and sleep in a bar, surrounded by partiers 24/7. Food is hard to escape.
I am doing a partial fast today to pray for my friend Crystal and our neighbor, baby Max.
I am also trying to get thru the Biblical Health Institute Bible Eating program so I can teach it.
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
We're back...Interesting lessons
We are back from MIAMI! We seriously considered abandoning all responsibility and staying there forever. We had a great time and lots of sunshine.
We started out trying to eat healthy. We were off to a good start. At Paula's she fed us some amazing home cooked meals. Melody made us black bean and veggie burritos.
Most of the trip we ate what I would consider a "healthy American diet", the foods that the Americans who are health conscious would eat. We'd pick salads and meats and veggies at the restaurants, avoid fast food, and snack on fruits. We ate cereal for breakfast and a lot of seafood. The biggest "unhealthy" foods we ate were a lot of unclean meats. We ate shrimp, crab, pork, oysters, yum...
Toward the end we weren't as careful and as time ran out we ended up at Fast Food sometimes. We still naturally chose the better options.
Here are some of the lessons we learned: (On our trip I thought of this in terms of "research" and "experiments" and "lessons" instead of failing or cheating)
It is really super hard, if not impossible to eat ALL whole foods on vacation. While we ate fairly healthy as I said, some things you just can't avoid in those situations. Like at someones house, or in an unfamiliar place where you can't find fresh fruits, or when you have really hungry kids and no where else to eat or no where to prepare fresh foods.
2. Another little experiment we did was with the kids. Since we were out and about, the kids saw a lot more snacks and junk food so they begged for it. They quickly wore us out and we said fine, we don't care. We can't put up with the begging forever. Interestingly, it didn't help. They begged for more junk food the more we gave them. So we didn't save ourselves any grief by giving in. I realised this once after we had given them a treat of donuts for breakfast and an hour later they threw a royal fit because they wanted ice cream! HAHAHAHA! So if you ever feed your kids whole foods, and feel bad because you are "depriving them" of fun food and you can't keep saying no all the time, keep this in mind. It doesn't help.
3. The "healthy american diet" is still a long ways off from the whole foods diet. While it's great to eat as well as possible and any little bit helps, it's not the same. I've heard from a lot of people (including myself a few months ago) that "we eat PRETTY healthy!" But it's not. Let's look at it this way. Most "healthy" people eat lots of good food to compensate for bad food. Like if I eat 3 oranges, I can eat ice cream too. While this way of thinking isn't all bad, after all, it's better than not eating oranges at all, it doesn't equate. I am pretty sure that you end up barely making up for the crap. You are never getting ahead. So you eat lots of healthy food that doesn't benefit you as much as it can. So you kind of do the hard work without the benefit. But just think if your body didn't have to continually "catchup" or repair the damage constantly. It just got better and stronger, or had more fuel to fight toxins in the air or other problems. Instead, it has to use the good nutrients to only counteract the bad ones. It can't ever use the good stuff to fix the problems or to build immunity. So if you are eating bad along with the good, it would stand to reason that you might still have all the same problems you had if you werent eating anything good because its never getting ahead. You might not be getting a lot worse, but never gain ground.
Also, I would be willing to bet that we ALL tend to overestimate the good food amounts compared to the bad (like, if I eat 2 pieces of fruit, I can have a bowl of ice cream, a candy bar, and a soda). And we also don't know how many superfoods you really need to eat to compensate for that diet soda.
(BTW, if you ever think that diet soda is better for you than regular, think again! It's poison!)
The most interesting thing I learned on vacation is that while I ate a lot of food I shouldn't have, I never felt like overindulging. Even for the whole week, I never got any cravings or addictions to the bad stuff. It still didn't satiate me like it used to. I found myself reaching for that orange after McDonalds because it tasted good. In the past, I would have ate as much junk as I could, just because i was able to. I never did try any pop! Occasionally it would sound tempting, but I just never did. That was nice. And the best part? When we got home and I went shopping yesterday? I bought all whole foods. I don't think we are going back. We know too much now.
I don't think we can do it 100% of the time as there are always difficult situations, but probably 90%. It just finally got to the point that our knowledge is finally in sync with our bodies. Before we knew what we SHOULD do, but we couldn't get over that addiction. Now we can. It's really starting to sound a lot more appetizing to us.
So tonight we had organic, pastured chicken, sweet potatoes, salad, and homemade blueberry pie for Willa's 1st birthday.
And I couldn't wait to get home and eat deviled eggs again!
So if we are really creatures of habit, the trick is to change your habits to whole foods and get in a whole foods rut!!!
We started out trying to eat healthy. We were off to a good start. At Paula's she fed us some amazing home cooked meals. Melody made us black bean and veggie burritos.
Most of the trip we ate what I would consider a "healthy American diet", the foods that the Americans who are health conscious would eat. We'd pick salads and meats and veggies at the restaurants, avoid fast food, and snack on fruits. We ate cereal for breakfast and a lot of seafood. The biggest "unhealthy" foods we ate were a lot of unclean meats. We ate shrimp, crab, pork, oysters, yum...
Toward the end we weren't as careful and as time ran out we ended up at Fast Food sometimes. We still naturally chose the better options.
Here are some of the lessons we learned: (On our trip I thought of this in terms of "research" and "experiments" and "lessons" instead of failing or cheating)
It is really super hard, if not impossible to eat ALL whole foods on vacation. While we ate fairly healthy as I said, some things you just can't avoid in those situations. Like at someones house, or in an unfamiliar place where you can't find fresh fruits, or when you have really hungry kids and no where else to eat or no where to prepare fresh foods.
2. Another little experiment we did was with the kids. Since we were out and about, the kids saw a lot more snacks and junk food so they begged for it. They quickly wore us out and we said fine, we don't care. We can't put up with the begging forever. Interestingly, it didn't help. They begged for more junk food the more we gave them. So we didn't save ourselves any grief by giving in. I realised this once after we had given them a treat of donuts for breakfast and an hour later they threw a royal fit because they wanted ice cream! HAHAHAHA! So if you ever feed your kids whole foods, and feel bad because you are "depriving them" of fun food and you can't keep saying no all the time, keep this in mind. It doesn't help.
3. The "healthy american diet" is still a long ways off from the whole foods diet. While it's great to eat as well as possible and any little bit helps, it's not the same. I've heard from a lot of people (including myself a few months ago) that "we eat PRETTY healthy!" But it's not. Let's look at it this way. Most "healthy" people eat lots of good food to compensate for bad food. Like if I eat 3 oranges, I can eat ice cream too. While this way of thinking isn't all bad, after all, it's better than not eating oranges at all, it doesn't equate. I am pretty sure that you end up barely making up for the crap. You are never getting ahead. So you eat lots of healthy food that doesn't benefit you as much as it can. So you kind of do the hard work without the benefit. But just think if your body didn't have to continually "catchup" or repair the damage constantly. It just got better and stronger, or had more fuel to fight toxins in the air or other problems. Instead, it has to use the good nutrients to only counteract the bad ones. It can't ever use the good stuff to fix the problems or to build immunity. So if you are eating bad along with the good, it would stand to reason that you might still have all the same problems you had if you werent eating anything good because its never getting ahead. You might not be getting a lot worse, but never gain ground.
Also, I would be willing to bet that we ALL tend to overestimate the good food amounts compared to the bad (like, if I eat 2 pieces of fruit, I can have a bowl of ice cream, a candy bar, and a soda). And we also don't know how many superfoods you really need to eat to compensate for that diet soda.
(BTW, if you ever think that diet soda is better for you than regular, think again! It's poison!)
The most interesting thing I learned on vacation is that while I ate a lot of food I shouldn't have, I never felt like overindulging. Even for the whole week, I never got any cravings or addictions to the bad stuff. It still didn't satiate me like it used to. I found myself reaching for that orange after McDonalds because it tasted good. In the past, I would have ate as much junk as I could, just because i was able to. I never did try any pop! Occasionally it would sound tempting, but I just never did. That was nice. And the best part? When we got home and I went shopping yesterday? I bought all whole foods. I don't think we are going back. We know too much now.
I don't think we can do it 100% of the time as there are always difficult situations, but probably 90%. It just finally got to the point that our knowledge is finally in sync with our bodies. Before we knew what we SHOULD do, but we couldn't get over that addiction. Now we can. It's really starting to sound a lot more appetizing to us.
So tonight we had organic, pastured chicken, sweet potatoes, salad, and homemade blueberry pie for Willa's 1st birthday.
And I couldn't wait to get home and eat deviled eggs again!
So if we are really creatures of habit, the trick is to change your habits to whole foods and get in a whole foods rut!!!
Thursday, February 12, 2009
Day 43--And Beyond...The strangest thing
We are officially done with the 40 day Maker's diet. I didn't think i could do it, but we stuck to it pretty good.
So now what? I wanted to wait until we completed it to decide how I wanted to eat the rest of my life. I didn't want to ban junk food for life because that would just make me want it more! 40 days i could do.
So here we are, 3 days past the end of the diet...what are we eating, might you ask?
Whole foods!
Strange. Something strange happened. While we did indulge in some small amounts of "processed food", (like today me and the boys made homemade soft pretzels), we are continuing on the same path of biblical eating! We are definitely in the habit now. We are leaving tomorrow for vacation and as our fridge emptied out, I was definitely tempted tonight to just have J and the kids go get something to night to eat. But then I thought, no, for about 15 minutes of work, I can make a really simple meal which is free, rather than pile everyone in to a fast food place and spend 25$. So I made a really easy pot of stew in the crockpot. And it's so good. We continued to munch on fruit and had our eggs and Ezekiel bread breakfast and lunch.
While I can't claim a miraculous healing from the diet (mostly because we were pretty healthy), I can state that I like to eat whole foods better than processed crap. I just feel better and it tastes better. Once I got past the addiction where McD's taints your taste buds, I just love the fresh foods. I am not a vegetable lover, nor will I ever be, but I make sure to eat them a few times a day. But you really don't have to eat veggies all day to eat whole foods. While fruits and veggies are great for you, we were created to eat mostly meats and grains and small amounts of green matter. And now I am addicted to fruit. And coconut water. And deviled eggs. And grapefruit. And tea.
And I had some chocolate the other day. First I had a bar of %70 cocoa and while it was OK, I didn't like how I felt after. It was sweet but not as satisfying as it used to be. I found myself eating it even though I didn't really enjoy it. Then I had some chocolate chips and peanut butter. The next day I realized that I had completely broken out in acne! And the week before I was just thinking how clear my skin had gotten and it had to be the diet. So I don't know if it was the chocolate or the PB, but I am stearing clear of both. Funny how i have a clear link to those and I still wanted to eat more last night!
The funniest thing is that when I am eating all this fresh stuff, I feel like I am eating like royalty! As if I am eating foods that only rich people eat, when in reality we are all supposed to be eating this way, and it's better and cheaper!
So if you don't hear from me for the next 10 days, it's because I am in Florida, getting Vitamin D. Which brings me to one more soapbox I would like to stand on for a moment. My whole life I have been opposed to the whole "sunscreen" mission. It makes no sense to me. Sure, you should never burn your skin, but to ban and curse the sun which is so great? weird. So NOW, all of a sudden, mainstream is saying, hey, wait, sun is maybe good for you? Thanks. After they've hurt and killed so many people by making sure no one ever was in the sun? There are at least 17 cancers that the sun can actually prevent... Sorry, but mark my words. In a few years drs will be prescribing sun. No, I take that back, we will just be inventing fake sun and supplements to mimic sun that will cause a lot more problems.
(OK I am finished now!)
So now what? I wanted to wait until we completed it to decide how I wanted to eat the rest of my life. I didn't want to ban junk food for life because that would just make me want it more! 40 days i could do.
So here we are, 3 days past the end of the diet...what are we eating, might you ask?
Whole foods!
Strange. Something strange happened. While we did indulge in some small amounts of "processed food", (like today me and the boys made homemade soft pretzels), we are continuing on the same path of biblical eating! We are definitely in the habit now. We are leaving tomorrow for vacation and as our fridge emptied out, I was definitely tempted tonight to just have J and the kids go get something to night to eat. But then I thought, no, for about 15 minutes of work, I can make a really simple meal which is free, rather than pile everyone in to a fast food place and spend 25$. So I made a really easy pot of stew in the crockpot. And it's so good. We continued to munch on fruit and had our eggs and Ezekiel bread breakfast and lunch.
While I can't claim a miraculous healing from the diet (mostly because we were pretty healthy), I can state that I like to eat whole foods better than processed crap. I just feel better and it tastes better. Once I got past the addiction where McD's taints your taste buds, I just love the fresh foods. I am not a vegetable lover, nor will I ever be, but I make sure to eat them a few times a day. But you really don't have to eat veggies all day to eat whole foods. While fruits and veggies are great for you, we were created to eat mostly meats and grains and small amounts of green matter. And now I am addicted to fruit. And coconut water. And deviled eggs. And grapefruit. And tea.
And I had some chocolate the other day. First I had a bar of %70 cocoa and while it was OK, I didn't like how I felt after. It was sweet but not as satisfying as it used to be. I found myself eating it even though I didn't really enjoy it. Then I had some chocolate chips and peanut butter. The next day I realized that I had completely broken out in acne! And the week before I was just thinking how clear my skin had gotten and it had to be the diet. So I don't know if it was the chocolate or the PB, but I am stearing clear of both. Funny how i have a clear link to those and I still wanted to eat more last night!
The funniest thing is that when I am eating all this fresh stuff, I feel like I am eating like royalty! As if I am eating foods that only rich people eat, when in reality we are all supposed to be eating this way, and it's better and cheaper!
So if you don't hear from me for the next 10 days, it's because I am in Florida, getting Vitamin D. Which brings me to one more soapbox I would like to stand on for a moment. My whole life I have been opposed to the whole "sunscreen" mission. It makes no sense to me. Sure, you should never burn your skin, but to ban and curse the sun which is so great? weird. So NOW, all of a sudden, mainstream is saying, hey, wait, sun is maybe good for you? Thanks. After they've hurt and killed so many people by making sure no one ever was in the sun? There are at least 17 cancers that the sun can actually prevent... Sorry, but mark my words. In a few years drs will be prescribing sun. No, I take that back, we will just be inventing fake sun and supplements to mimic sun that will cause a lot more problems.
(OK I am finished now!)
Sunday, February 8, 2009
DAY 39 Teetering on the edge of the wagon
I have to confess that since we are so close to the end we are cheating more and more! Friday night I had all the kids and between TaeKwonDo classes we snagged a pizza. The horror! But no pop, so i have some restraint.
Then in order to get Sawyer out the door outside yesterday justin had to bribe him with ice cream if they biked to the store.
And then at Church there are cookies and the horrible corn syrup lemonade. (for the kids)
Speaking of corn syrup, check out this article. Now that right there is an excellent reason not to eat junk food. I mean, sometimes it s hard for our brains to wrap around the fact that eating junk will someday may or may not make us sick. But the 2nd most potent toxin in the world to humans is in it? That's pretty concrete. I can convince my brain that it is indeed poison with that kind of information.
Tomorrow is our last day on the diet. We have a lot of temptation and trials this week so it should be interesting. On Friday we leave for 10 days to Florida. While on the trip I plan on bringing food and eating groceries or dining out at nice places. The harder part may be BEFORE the trip, as we try to empty out the fridge before we leave, but have enough that we don't have to grab fast food at the end of the week.
I am WAY excited however to be in Florida for a myriad of reasons, Vitamin D, sunshine, fresh air, and fresh fruits that are in season there.
I still have glimpses of fast-food cravings, but only when I am really hungry and defeated. I am past the point of it sounding good. If we can just avoid the pitfall of the convenience factor, we are going to do OK. The bigger problem for me is the gray area of home baked goods, with regular sugar or white flour.
Then in order to get Sawyer out the door outside yesterday justin had to bribe him with ice cream if they biked to the store.
And then at Church there are cookies and the horrible corn syrup lemonade. (for the kids)
Speaking of corn syrup, check out this article. Now that right there is an excellent reason not to eat junk food. I mean, sometimes it s hard for our brains to wrap around the fact that eating junk will someday may or may not make us sick. But the 2nd most potent toxin in the world to humans is in it? That's pretty concrete. I can convince my brain that it is indeed poison with that kind of information.
Tomorrow is our last day on the diet. We have a lot of temptation and trials this week so it should be interesting. On Friday we leave for 10 days to Florida. While on the trip I plan on bringing food and eating groceries or dining out at nice places. The harder part may be BEFORE the trip, as we try to empty out the fridge before we leave, but have enough that we don't have to grab fast food at the end of the week.
I am WAY excited however to be in Florida for a myriad of reasons, Vitamin D, sunshine, fresh air, and fresh fruits that are in season there.
I still have glimpses of fast-food cravings, but only when I am really hungry and defeated. I am past the point of it sounding good. If we can just avoid the pitfall of the convenience factor, we are going to do OK. The bigger problem for me is the gray area of home baked goods, with regular sugar or white flour.
Thursday, February 5, 2009
Day 36 GETTING CLOSE!
Only 4 days to go! I never thought it would go this fast. Tonight we had salmon and mashed sweet potatoes. We had chicken and berries for lunch and a smoothie, eggs, and ezekiel muffins for breakfast. Also lots of fruit as snacks in between.
We continue to try to diversify our diets. This is the hard part. I've talked before about settling into routine and thus limit our diets. I've found that since we have expanded to more grains, it's really easy to eat those to fill up instead of more fruits and veggies. My body still knows that I'll feel more full on a piece of ezekiel bread than vegetables. But I have noticed I like the feeling of the latter better. Even with ezekiel bread, potatoes, or corn chips, I get more of a "ate too much" feeling than just eating for pleasure like a grapefruit.
The other hazard as we approach the end is that there is more cheating going on. Not big-time, but little here and there. Like white rice ( a no-no anytime). While I highly recommend biblical whole foods eating for everyone, I still think that as long as you stay away from processed foods (including white flour, sugar) you will be OK if you are healthy. But there are definitely foods that some might consider un-processed but are, like baked goods (even home-made) white rice, breads, buns, ketchup, etc.
Well, we will continue to plod onward! It's also easy to let the kids cheat more than we do, because it's easier.
I haven't really been looking for a source of raw dairy products, either. This has been difficult.
We continue to try to diversify our diets. This is the hard part. I've talked before about settling into routine and thus limit our diets. I've found that since we have expanded to more grains, it's really easy to eat those to fill up instead of more fruits and veggies. My body still knows that I'll feel more full on a piece of ezekiel bread than vegetables. But I have noticed I like the feeling of the latter better. Even with ezekiel bread, potatoes, or corn chips, I get more of a "ate too much" feeling than just eating for pleasure like a grapefruit.
The other hazard as we approach the end is that there is more cheating going on. Not big-time, but little here and there. Like white rice ( a no-no anytime). While I highly recommend biblical whole foods eating for everyone, I still think that as long as you stay away from processed foods (including white flour, sugar) you will be OK if you are healthy. But there are definitely foods that some might consider un-processed but are, like baked goods (even home-made) white rice, breads, buns, ketchup, etc.
Well, we will continue to plod onward! It's also easy to let the kids cheat more than we do, because it's easier.
I haven't really been looking for a source of raw dairy products, either. This has been difficult.
Sunday, February 1, 2009
DAY 32 A new challenge
I just started (literally, just, about 5 minutes ago) an on-line program by Jordan Rubin to become a Biblical Health Coach. He was teaching that of the 150,000+ plants available to eat each day, Americans typically eat about 3 a day. (Ketchup, lettuce, and french fries). Native peoples in good health can eat about 300 kinds a year.
A trap in any diet, healthy or not, is becoming stuck in a food rut. Even for us, we have quickly settled on the fruits and veggies we do like, know where to find, and what is easy to prepare. So i am going to challenge myself to continue to expand our eating horizons and not get in a rut.
Today we had:
Blueberries
Raspberries
Strawberries
Oranges
Grapefruit
Salad (about 5 lettuces)
Corn (in chips)
Almonds
Dates
Coconut
In total (I will just focus on fruits and veggies) we all averaged about 10-12 different fruits.
I'll keep tabs on how that changes thruout the week. It's good to eat a variety each day, but also each week/month. We can't just eat the same 12 all month. This is also a good way to eat seasonally. For instance, we have really been eating a lot of grapefruit this month since they are in season. I think the season is almost done but a new main fruit should be cropping up out in CA any day now! It's oK to eat on a monthly rotation with the seasons. The more in-season the produce is, the healthier it is for us! Just don't get stuck in that apple/carrot rut all year!
A trap in any diet, healthy or not, is becoming stuck in a food rut. Even for us, we have quickly settled on the fruits and veggies we do like, know where to find, and what is easy to prepare. So i am going to challenge myself to continue to expand our eating horizons and not get in a rut.
Today we had:
Blueberries
Raspberries
Strawberries
Oranges
Grapefruit
Salad (about 5 lettuces)
Corn (in chips)
Almonds
Dates
Coconut
In total (I will just focus on fruits and veggies) we all averaged about 10-12 different fruits.
I'll keep tabs on how that changes thruout the week. It's good to eat a variety each day, but also each week/month. We can't just eat the same 12 all month. This is also a good way to eat seasonally. For instance, we have really been eating a lot of grapefruit this month since they are in season. I think the season is almost done but a new main fruit should be cropping up out in CA any day now! It's oK to eat on a monthly rotation with the seasons. The more in-season the produce is, the healthier it is for us! Just don't get stuck in that apple/carrot rut all year!
Saturday, January 31, 2009
Day 31 The last frontier
Phase 2 flew by fast. We are now in the mindset that we can eat like this permanently. It doesn't even feel weird, or hard anymore. I don't even know what to write about!
The last frontier for us to conquer is the processed dairy. Basically any processed dairy is some of the worst food on the planet, vs. raw dairy, which is more like a superfood. The mainstream science and alternative holistic views agree on this point. The difference lays in that the mainstream doesn't bother to look to raw dairy, and just assumes any dairy is bad. Sure it's got calcium, but even mds agree that your body doesn't uptake it very well anyway.
We have been "buying" (sharing) raw milk for a couple years now. It's great to have and we drink it as our milk. But it's very expensive and we can't afford to make dairy products out of it, and don't really have a source of buying raw butter, yogurt, kefir, or cheese. So we have been consuming the regular stuff. And that's kind of still on the list of "never touch the stuff".
SO, we have to change that. It's more a matter of actually finding it and paying for it than trying to change, because it's not like it will taste weird or something.
Even at Meijers we can find some goat cheese, but even that is processed. By that it usually means pasturized. Which kills off everything good, changes the good fats to bad, and adds in a couple vitamins to make it marginally better. Kind of like when they stripped everything out of wheat, and then add a couple vitamins back in and call it "enriched"!!!! That is sooooo funny. I really truely hope that whoever came up with that marketing word got a HUGE bonus. Or award. Or peace prize.
Everything you need to know about "real" (raw) milk can be found at: www.realmilk.com. They have links to the Weston A. Price Foundation, who has done a lot of work on raw milk and healthy eating. Way back in the early 1900s. Imagine that...
The last frontier for us to conquer is the processed dairy. Basically any processed dairy is some of the worst food on the planet, vs. raw dairy, which is more like a superfood. The mainstream science and alternative holistic views agree on this point. The difference lays in that the mainstream doesn't bother to look to raw dairy, and just assumes any dairy is bad. Sure it's got calcium, but even mds agree that your body doesn't uptake it very well anyway.
We have been "buying" (sharing) raw milk for a couple years now. It's great to have and we drink it as our milk. But it's very expensive and we can't afford to make dairy products out of it, and don't really have a source of buying raw butter, yogurt, kefir, or cheese. So we have been consuming the regular stuff. And that's kind of still on the list of "never touch the stuff".
SO, we have to change that. It's more a matter of actually finding it and paying for it than trying to change, because it's not like it will taste weird or something.
Even at Meijers we can find some goat cheese, but even that is processed. By that it usually means pasturized. Which kills off everything good, changes the good fats to bad, and adds in a couple vitamins to make it marginally better. Kind of like when they stripped everything out of wheat, and then add a couple vitamins back in and call it "enriched"!!!! That is sooooo funny. I really truely hope that whoever came up with that marketing word got a HUGE bonus. Or award. Or peace prize.
Everything you need to know about "real" (raw) milk can be found at: www.realmilk.com. They have links to the Weston A. Price Foundation, who has done a lot of work on raw milk and healthy eating. Way back in the early 1900s. Imagine that...
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