The Lunch
Today Theodore had carrot sticks, strawberries, raspberries, dye free organic jelly beans, and mushrooms/eggplant over whole wheat penne with my classic alfredo and herb sauce.
I was just reading a write up from the John Hopkin’s about cancer prevention and one thing they mentioned was consuming more raw foods. When we cook foods they loose nutrients, therefore the more raw foods we eat the better. I’m making an effort with my whole family to keep this in mind when preparing meals. While this is not anywhere near a raw foods blog, I think it is important to mention things like this for everyone to keep in mind. Not only are there health benefits to raw foods, they take less time to prepare and are “fast food” in my opinion. It is a win-win all around!
The Jelly Beans
My husband came home from our version of “Whole Foods”, The Healthy Grocer. He had allowed the kids to pick out a special treat… organic dye-free jelly beans! It was a special occasion, we were going camping for the Memorial Day weekend. I think it is important to seek out companies not using dangerous ingredients in candy and support what they are doing. After all, nothing will never change about our food supply until we change the companies we purchase from. Here is a link to the jelly beans he got. They were really good and I will definitely purchase from them again for other special occasions!
