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Tuesday, August 21, 2012

What's for Breakfast??





We have pretty much cut all cold cereals out of our breakfast routine. Let's be honest, there is rarely anything good in them anyways! I just recently discovered that Kashi Cereal uses GMO products!! So much for it being a healthier choice. I liked Kashi, it made me think I was doing something good for myself in the morning! I guess not! The problem is, that all these healthy little products come out, then once a bunch of consumers start grabbing on, the Big Wigs step in....offer the little healthy man lots of money, then junkify the "use to be healthy" foods so they can make it cheaper! I am in the middle of reading a book called "The Pure Cure"..and WOW is it an eye opener! Greed sure has taken over! It saddens me that man thinks they can take what God created and somehow make it better, bigger and produce more than it was created to do!
   All this has sent our family off on a journey to remake our diet by going back to how things were meant to be...raw milk, no GMO's, no artificial and what not! But, I can only make it happen one baby step at a time! otherwise I get overwhelmed and discouraged!
   I am starting with what we eat for breakfast!! Yay! I personally am not a huge motivated eater! So it's easy for me to skip meals or just snack...but that's not healthy either..and my Hubby Loves me enough to make sure I get the nutrients I need lol! I was inspired by a couple people around me, to start making my own smoothies in the morning! It has actually been so much fun! My Main smoothie consisted of the following:
                                  Kale-Couple Leaves/Stems
                                  Spinach-A Handful
                                 Around 10 Strawberries
                                 A cup of Organic Frozen Blueberries
                                 1/4 Cup of Ground Flax Seed
                                 2 Tbls- Raw Apple Cider Vinegar
                                 1/2 cup of Almond Milk
                                 (Sometimes) 1 cup of Plain Yogurt.
                                   1 Mango or Peach
                                   1 Banana
Being that my little Ayden is now on a "no dairy" diet, I often opt out the Yogurt and add extra Almond milk. Also, After recent research I have done, I discovered that "green smoothies" can be more damaging than they are good for you. As long as you use things like Spinach and Kale in moderation, you are fine. But, due to the high levels of "Oxalates" in the Spinach, there is some research that show an increase in Kidney Stones due to high Oxalate diets! People who had suffered from kidney stones, were told by their Doctors to cut out the green smoothies, but mainly the Spinach! I still want to do some more reading up on this, but I sure found it intriguing!  Anyways, I love the smoothie idea (minus some of the Spinach now), it's fast..yummy and I feel great in the morning! I make enough for 2 1/2, bottle one up for Ben (for the next morning), then Ayden and I polish off the rest!


Now onto getting rid of the the Multi Vitamins, and replacing them with a Whole foods supplement, and maybe some Cod live oil along with Butter oil!!




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