Eating Whole Foods

Change The World Wednesday  

The Challenge for the week is to eat whole foods for an entire meal, an entire day, or an entire week.  I think I am going to try for a week to eat whole foods.  I already try to shop the perimeter of the store so that I am only buying real food, not processed foods,.  Now it is time to step up and challenge myself to eat a weeks worth of whole foods for every meal and every snack.

My post from yesterday is "What do I wish to accomplish?".  I wrote about wanting to be healthier and more creative, and more active.  This weeks challenge will help me get to accomplish that, hopefully!  I am hopeful that eating a whole foods diet, since it is healthier, will give me more energy to be creative and more energetic.  I have wanted to become a vegetarian for a long time,but never thought I could give up beef.  I eat beef so infrequently now, I think I could become vegetarian, and maybe even close to vegan.  I don't think that I could ever become a total vegan, but I could give up eating animal based products where animals are killed for the food they provide.  I could probably give up almost all animal products, but I think it would be hard to give up everything.  I guess though, I never thought that i could give up beef and I pretty much have and don't really miss it.

I am now researching recipes for soy free/gluten free vegan diets.  I was shocked that there are many blogs about this.  I am attempting to find out if my kids have  a dairy sensitivity and my husband is allergic to soy and I want to give up gluten.  Can our family rise to the challenge?  I certainly will try and since I am the cook for the family it will be up to me to find recipes that are tasty and healthy!

Oh and on another note, I am still trying to be less reliant on materialistic and store bought items, unless they are truly healthy.  I have started seeds and they are actually growing even though we have had some horrible weather since I started them.  I need to start more and actually plant my lettuce outside.  I am still attempting to only cloth diaper my children and other than this rash I am trying to clear, it is going well.  I am using my own wipes made from old receiving blankets and pretty much just plain water for cleaning their sensitive little bums.  I have made my own shampoo, toothpaste, and deodorant and am pretty pleased with how it is all working out.  I still need to work on using my car less.  Hopefully with the better weather coming, I can get out and walk with the kids more instead of having to drive every where.

Wish me luck,

Amy