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Making some changes

November8

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?

posted under Healthy living, High fructose corn syrup
2 Comments to

“Making some changes”

  1. On November 11th, 2007 at 10:48 pm Sam Says:

    Basi­cally take any recipe and zero-in on the unwanted com­po­nents. Google for sub­sti­tu­tions on ingre­di­ents. Most of the time if you just cut back on sug­ars and added fats. Not elim­i­nate them entirely, but reduce their con­tri­bu­tion to the entree/meal.

    Avoid arti­fi­cial sweet­en­ers, they usu­ally lead to more harm than good. I like Alton Brown’s stuff. http://www.altonbrown.com

  2. On March 24th, 2009 at 2:09 pm Carole Says:

    Head over to my site for lots of help­ful info and recipes.

    I would take it easy on the con­ver­sion to whole wheat. Many peo­ple have a prob­lem with it, and there is a big increase in gluten sen­sativ­ity since they’ve been pound­ing on us to eat whole grains. They can cause all kinds of inflammation.

    I’m going on 53. I don’t eat whole grains. I don’t drink milk. I take no meds. Pop­u­lar advice is often not cor­rect — but peo­ple don’t know enough about nutri­tion so its easy to sell them a bunch of hog­wash. You’ve got to be really careful.

    The corn syrup is becom­ing less of a con­cern. Food man­u­fac­tur­ers are cut­ting it out of their prod­ucts quickly since the price of corn went up so high. Thank heaven. Foods taste so much bet­ter with­out it!

    Good luck on your healthy jour­ney. Let me know if I can help.