Our Journey to Clean Eating
Since I quit working outside the home and made it my life’s mission to be a good little housewife and SAHM, I was bombarded with the realization that so much of the “food” I was feeding my family wasn’t actually nutritious. No, I wasn’t trying to be perfect, nor was I driving through McDonald’s or buying Twinkies. But, growing up in the 80s and 90s (the peak of the convenience-food generation), I was just never conditioned to think much about what I was putting into my body. Clean eating wasn’t really on my radar.
I’m not sure what put me into overdrive, but I discovered Lisa Leake’s 100 Days of Real Food blog and was instantly hooked. I stalked her blog then ordered her cookbooks and could hardly put them down. I pored over the chapters she dedicated to educating her readers on untruths and misconceptions we are led to believe about food. By Lisa’s recommendation, I snagged Michael Pollan’s book, Food Rules, at a Half-Price Books for about six bucks and read it in one sitting. Literally. (It really is a quick and easy read.) I have been on one mission ever since: REAL FOOD ONLY. VIEW POST
