About Me

Today's the day!  So many of my friends have asked me to share recipes with them that I thought this might be a great place to store everything in one location for your viewing pleasure.  

About a year ago I'm at a MOPS meeting and I didn't expect it to change the way I see the food I feed to my family and myself.  It was a simple lecture on grocery shopping and gardening.  However the hostess changed me forever.  This is probably something she isn't even aware of.  I had heard of clean eating before but I never really thought about what it meant except maybe buying your food at Whole Foods instead of King Soopers.

Since she told me how she makes her own graham crackers, fruit roll ups, dried fruit snacks, and so many other things I never even gave a second though to taking off the shelf at the grocery store, my eyes have been opened and my kitchen has been a mess.  :-)  

So I love love love to cook.  I love to have my kids (and other people's kids too) in my kitchen learning how to measure flour or roll out the dough for bread.  It's therapeutic in a way for me.  One of my most valuable treasures I still own is a drawing my oldest daughter Elaine made for me when she was in kindergarten.  It's of me and at the bottom it says, "My mama, she lets me help her cook".  This sums me up perfectly and I love it.  I also love the crooked face she gave me, but that's a different story all together.

So I have been eating clean for a while now.  I make my own bread, bagels, cheeze-its, granola bars, graham crackers, dinner rolls, peanut butter, and a few other things.  :-) But I recently decided to add on to this lifestyle by expanding my knowledge into the realm of natural health remedies.  Why spend all this time making bread at home only to pump my family full of over the counter medicines and pain killers if I can find a natural healthy way to prevent illness in the first place.  Don't get me wrong please, if my kids are sick we are still going to go to the doctor.  My youngest has a peanut allergy and I will never leave home without an epi-pen again but if I can prevent illness in a healthy way and keep my kids out of the doctors office then I've done a good thing for them. 

Also know that I don't make everything and I am not a fanatic by any means at all.  I can only control a certain amount of the food my family consumes and this is where I have found a nice balance between trying to make natural foods at home, trying to buy organic when I can, and trying to keep my families immune system in tip top shape for a lifetime of healthy living.  We can only do what we can do.  :-)