DAY 3 Beneficial foods?

Here's a concept that I continue to try to wrap my mind around. I've heard it a million times, but didn't want to think about it I guess. For the past 3 days, we haven't eaten a single food that doesn't have some benefit to our bodies. There hasn't been any food to just fill us up or simply to taste good. It's all beneficial. I know it seems common sense, but I never wanted to think about this. I think we all have this concept of food that it is just to fill you up, calories to burn, just enough intake to use and not gain weight, or to eat more calories to gain weight. I guess this is the whole "food as medicine" idea. If I were eating my regular diet, and heard about a food that could do good things for me, lets say if i had a cold, chicken soup, I would eat some chicken soup once in a while and assume it didn't really help. But what if every food you ate did some kind of good? Interesting.

Well, I may not be making any sense, but hopefully you know what I mean

I won't bore you all (you know the millions of readers), with details everyday, just for the start.
Saturdays are usually bad for us since we like to go to town, which means fast food probably 2x in one day.
Today we stayed home, and ate well. I thought I might starve but even now, only day 3, I am figuring out all the foods I CAN eat and just remember to eat them. Foods I wouldn't eat before

We had fruit, berry, organic plain kefir smoothies, eggs, and grapefruit for breakfast.
For lunch we ate leftover chicken soup, chicken lunch meat, carrots, hummus, and the kids ate sunflowerbutter and jelly on sprouted bread.
OH! Small miracle...I found Ezekiel raisin english muffins at the HFStore and the kids love them! They think they taste as good as "normal" ones. There is no sugar, no flour, only sprouted grains, lentils, etc. AMAZING!

For supper I made chili with venison and no beans (Phase 1 has no beans, grains, or sugar). We made a spinach salad with orange sweet pepper, goat cheese, broccoli and the olive oil/balsamic vinegar dressing. We all drank raw milk and we again got Sawyer to not only eat the chili by calling it "Taco Soup" AND he drank milk by adding a small amount of cocoa! Another YAY!

I also snacked all day on a coconut (fresh). I've always loved the coconut milk.
The kids probably ODed on fruits today, but oh well. They ate ate least 2-3 clementine oranges, 1 banana, and a couple apples each!
We are continueing our fish oil, HSO supplement and vitamin. I had been taking a whole foods green vitamin which is 3 pills. I thought I was getting an ulcer, but figured out it may be the vitamin. I backed off to 1 at a time and so far so good. Maybe just taking them all at once wasn't good.

I am actually full right now! Which I should be, I guess. It's not like this is a "diet" to lose weight or to restrict calories. I just don't always know what to eat so I don't. I am still really stoked about my shopping yesterday. I found so many fun things to try! Sometime I am going to do a cost estimate on "SAD" (Standard American Diet) vs Maker's Diet foods.

The hurdle for me will be continuing to think about meal prep far in advance so i don't run out of ideas and panic, and having to go grocery shopping much more often. OH HOW I HATE IT!

One last comment unrelated. I get this great magazine, Mothering. It always comes at the right time, and I got the latest yesterday. On the front page was "WHO WANT"S TO SLEEP ALONE?" There were 2 great articles on all this research about bedsharing and how "normal" babies don't sleep through the night. It was just what I needed! Sometimes i panic or get exhausted just because I don't feel like my baby is doing "normal" sleep and everyone elses baby seems to sleep just fine. I was so stressed out by her crying as well as worrying what I was doing to my child to be waking up all the time. I thought I was a bad mom for not being tougher with her and making her sleep!
Turns out, we're just in tune with each other, and it's totally normal for a baby who sleeps with you to wake every 2hrs for a quick snack. Kids who sleep alone do sleep longer, but it's better for the baby to get that contact and nourishment all night! It just reinforced my idea that it's not "normal" for a 10 month old to be away from her security all night or for lengths of time during the day.
I have to remember to raise my kids the way I WANT TO, rather than what I think the "norm" is. I do need her to go to bed at a normal hour and sleep in till a decent hour (at least 630), but why can't she sleep with us and nurse at night?