04-15-2009, 08:22 AM
Good Greetings All:
I attempted do eat a raw food diet consistently. It is simply beyond my budget ability at this time. As well as beyond my time budget. I do not have 3 days to wait to eat bread that has to sprout. When the kiddos are hungry they are hungry! LOL I eat a mostly vegetarian diet. Where I live fruit can sometimes be very very expensive. A diet of just apples in the winter is not going to give us our nutritional needs... not to mention all that fructose will make everyone loopy... The Celtic Druids used to fast on apples before going on a vision quest. This is not how I want to send my kiddos off to school. LOL
So since I have a family to feed we eat mostly vegetarian with cheese, eggs and yogurt to round out our diet. Eggs, cheese and yogurt are very filling and meet the health needs of my growing kiddos. When I cut them out of our diet the kiddos got sick and listless. The vitamin B's in cheese and eggs are essential for body health.
We eat most of our veggies and fruits raw. The kiddos do not like raw grains that have been sprouted. They will not eat them. What a waste of $$$$$ for me and effort. So we eat bread that is nutritious and homemade cooked grains. It is very expensive to buy organic raw grains.
I must also add that I make most of our food from scratch or I buy organic quick foods for when we are traveling.
Potatoes are absolutely horrid raw. So we generally cook them. This is a staple for our diet. A good Irish diet of potatoes (cooked) raw cabbage, a wee bit of raw onions, and lots of raw carrots and dried raisins. But we do cook our starches.
In the perfect world, all we would have to do is go out into our permaculture gardens and pick our fruits and veggies and nuts and consume as we move through the abundant food producing forest. This is becoming a reality slowly but surely as the greening of our beautiful Earth Mother continues. Anastasia, by Vladamire Megre is a good place to learn of this incredible movement.
I am planting permaculture gardens in my yard. It is a labor of love that hopefully will result in fruiting trees and nut trees and guilds of plants that all harmoniously work together to assist us in our eating and open our hearts with their beauty!
An interesting fact... tomatoes and roses are companion plants. They really help each other out and work together to ward off pests. I am going to try this combination when I plant this year. Of course, tomatoes are annuals where I live because we have Winter here.
fairyfarmgirl
I attempted do eat a raw food diet consistently. It is simply beyond my budget ability at this time. As well as beyond my time budget. I do not have 3 days to wait to eat bread that has to sprout. When the kiddos are hungry they are hungry! LOL I eat a mostly vegetarian diet. Where I live fruit can sometimes be very very expensive. A diet of just apples in the winter is not going to give us our nutritional needs... not to mention all that fructose will make everyone loopy... The Celtic Druids used to fast on apples before going on a vision quest. This is not how I want to send my kiddos off to school. LOL
So since I have a family to feed we eat mostly vegetarian with cheese, eggs and yogurt to round out our diet. Eggs, cheese and yogurt are very filling and meet the health needs of my growing kiddos. When I cut them out of our diet the kiddos got sick and listless. The vitamin B's in cheese and eggs are essential for body health.
We eat most of our veggies and fruits raw. The kiddos do not like raw grains that have been sprouted. They will not eat them. What a waste of $$$$$ for me and effort. So we eat bread that is nutritious and homemade cooked grains. It is very expensive to buy organic raw grains.
I must also add that I make most of our food from scratch or I buy organic quick foods for when we are traveling.
Potatoes are absolutely horrid raw. So we generally cook them. This is a staple for our diet. A good Irish diet of potatoes (cooked) raw cabbage, a wee bit of raw onions, and lots of raw carrots and dried raisins. But we do cook our starches.
In the perfect world, all we would have to do is go out into our permaculture gardens and pick our fruits and veggies and nuts and consume as we move through the abundant food producing forest. This is becoming a reality slowly but surely as the greening of our beautiful Earth Mother continues. Anastasia, by Vladamire Megre is a good place to learn of this incredible movement.
I am planting permaculture gardens in my yard. It is a labor of love that hopefully will result in fruiting trees and nut trees and guilds of plants that all harmoniously work together to assist us in our eating and open our hearts with their beauty!
An interesting fact... tomatoes and roses are companion plants. They really help each other out and work together to ward off pests. I am going to try this combination when I plant this year. Of course, tomatoes are annuals where I live because we have Winter here.
fairyfarmgirl