So a journey begins...

I grew up with a mom who cooked...in the kitchen...and made things from scratch. I lived my entire childhood not knowing that stuffing and mashed potatoes could actually come from a box! It always disturbed me to know that such things were allowed to be made and worse, consumed by unsuspecting people who had no interest in what food SHOULD taste like and how it was made to sit on a shelf for years at a time.

As a teenager I stopped eating meat and only ate organic. Then at the ripe old age of 20 I got married to my high school sweetheart and started our journey of building our home life together and it's expectations. Two years later and seven moves later, we welcomed our first born son into our small two bedroom apartment. With not much money, time, or sleep, soon cooking the best, most healthiest way was of less importance and just filling our tummies with whatever was quick, easy, and cheap was put to the front of the line. Eight and a half years of marriage, three beautiful children and 17 moves later, we have made our way back to the roots of my childhood. I read ingredients on the food labels and have no clue what most of them are. I question the constant headlines of another person who has just been informed they have cancer or are dying of cancer. I wonder how it is I can read recipe book after recipe book and find very few recipes that don't require "packaged" ingredients.

When did this become the norm? Was it after the "woman's rights movement"? After woman went to work outside of the home and there was no longer "time" to cook REAL food. Was it after fast food restaurants became more and more popular? And in turn, causing the number one health concern in north america to be heart attacks and obesity related diseases? Or was it trying to make everything "healthy" and cutting out the fat and replacing it with who know's what? Or maybe it's the "big wigs" who want to make the most money with as little loss and cost as possible?

Either way, I've started thinking for MYSELF and not believing the media and "averages". I am wanting to know what I am putting in my and my families bodies! I am trying to cook with ingredients that are as close as the way God intended them to be. I want to know that what I'm eating, isn't staying in me for who knows how long? And that what I'm serving my children isn't going to cause my children to die before me.

This is my journey....