DAY 15 PHASE 2!

Well, we made it to the second phase. We celebrated by snacking on stove-top popcorn. Basically now we can add corn, sweet potatoes, and some raw nuts and seeds. More fruit, but we've been eating most fruits and different dairy, which we are lax on due to the availability of raw goats milk in the area.
Today we had eggs of course, grapefruit, coconut, oranges, bananas, apples, etc for snacks.
Lunch the boys had their sandwiches and we had leftovers.
Tonight we had salmon, squash and sauteed mushrooms. I also made the avacado dip for some extra calories.
I've been snacking on plain yogurt and i add a touch of vanilla extract and a bit of honey.
You know, reading labels is so important, but you forget that when you shop for whole foods because usually there are no labels. But they are forever trying to trick you. The other day there were blueberries on sale. They look great, but its the middle of January....hmmm, how does that work? The label says they are from Michigan! Wow! Wait a minute...I'm in michigan right now and it doesn't seem warm enough to be harvesting blueberries...Oh wait, in tiny print below the michigan label it says, "grown FOR Michigan, from Argentina". Never mind...
THEN today I grabbed our wonderful Salmon fillets from the location they are always at, same everything that is always fresh ocean caught salmon. I get home and glance at the little butcher wrap label and it says Farm Raised in Chile!!!! AUGH... I can't win. Who would have thought you needed to read meat labels and fruit labels.
Not only do I not want foreign foods because of their lax and unregulated uses of pesticides, herbicides, hormones, and perhaps even-more-questionable-than-ours- farming practices, not to mention the fossil fuels it takes to ship Blueberries across the world in January, but it's important to know where the meat is from too, because that influences it's nutrient content. The reason FISH has Omega3 essential fatty acids is because fish in the ocean eat kelp and other green things or other fish that eat green things, and this kelp is where Omega 3s are. In a Salmon Farm they feed them grain and anything that they can find to be profitable weight gain. Likewise with red meat. Red meat is only bad because of what the red meat eats. GRAIN and crap (sometimes literally). Turns out GRASS has the omega 3 and thats' why grass-fed beef is important. You are what you eat, and so is the cow.
OK, I am getting off my soap-box for this evening.