Lately I’ve been think­ing a lot about aging, health, and lifestyle. I’ve been watch­ing Dr. Oz on Oprah lately, and I’ve started think­ing more and more that we could be doing a lot more to give our­selves and our kids a healthy future.

What I wanted to do was to purge our kitchen and pantry. I wanted to throw away any­thing that wasn’t good for me and start over in a utopia of fruit, veg­gies, and chick­peas. (I LOVE chick­peas!) Instead, what we are plan­ning to do is to make the change grad­u­ally. We’ll decide on a goal or two for the month, and then once we achieve that goal, we’ll move to our next goal(s).

This month, we will be doing a few things:
*Buy­ing whole grain rice instead of white rice
*Buy­ing wheat pasta instead of reg­u­lar pasta
*Buy­ing sun­but­ter instead of peanut but­ter
*NOT buy­ing any­thing with high fruc­tose corn syrup

I think the first two will be pretty easy tran­si­tions for us, since we do those at least to some degree now any­way. The third will be a mat­ter of get­ting used to a new taste/texture, but the last one will prob­a­bly be quite an adjust­ment for us. I think it will also take a while to get our shop­ping done if we’re read­ing every label of every prod­uct we put in the cart.

Does any­one have any sug­ges­tions for cook­books or web­sites to find good tast­ing, healthy recipes for supper?