What I did not expect were the amazing changes to our health or the profound and surprisingly permanent impact on our eating habits.
While our experience was of course difficult at times I just had to prove this could be done. For $125 a week our family of four survived on real food and real food only. So once we completed our initial real food pledge we decided to take another 100-day pledge except this time we did it on a “ food stamp” budget. While everyone thought real, local, organic food sounded great they also thought it sounded too expensive. The response from both readers and the media was amazing, but there was one piece of feedback we could not ignore. I started blogging about the highs and lows of our journey online in the hopes that we could inspire others to follow along.
We devised some basic rules to live by including no white flour, no sugar, and nothing out of a package with more than 5 ingredients. 100 Days of Real Foodīeginning in May 2010, our family started a blog called “ 100 Days of Real Food” where we promised to go 100 long days without eating a single ounce of highly processed food or refined ingredients. So, after some extensive research and a lot of label reading, my “all or nothing” personality decided to take my entire family, including my husband and our three- and five-year-old daughters, on the journey of our lives. I lost a lot of sleep over what I would feed my family if I could no longer rely on Goldfish, Suckers, Whitewheat Bread, and Fruit Snacks. I felt compelled to make some immediate and drastic changes to our diet, but I honestly didn’t know where to begin.
HUNDRED DAYS OF REAL FOOD SERIES
Then came a series of events, including an Oprah show, a book by Michael Pollan, and the documentary Food Inc., which forever changed the way we looked at food.Īs it turned out, a lot of what we thought were “healthy” food choices were actually highly processed and not the best choices at all.
We thought we were making fairly healthy food choices, although we certainly didn’t mind the occasional fast food meal or bag of chips.
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