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Originally Posted by SykkBoy
One key is whole foods as much as possible. Become an ardent label reader, but also take the time to understand what you're reading. Often things labeled as diet or lite tend to have chemical replacements that are worse than what they are substituting.
Go back to real butter, grass fed is better, if you can find it and afford it.
Coconut oil (cold pressed if you can get it) is your friend., We use it as much as possible, even as a mouth rinse. Don't be scared of the price of coconut oil. It may seem expensive, but a little bit goes a long way. We even use it in the home made babywipes we make for our youngest.
Lots of high fiber foods like beans and legumes. We always have some cooked beans on hand in the fridge. They are great for making home made dips, refried beans, chilis, soups, etc.
Start a little herb garden and grow your own fresh herbs. If you have the space, a little garden where you can grow your own produce.
Those who know me through Facebook and offline, you all know my wife is a very crunchy hippy woman. She researches endlessly and between her knowledge and mine (spent years as a sous chef before going into this business), we manage to eat healthy and are raising our two daughters together to eat healthy (and we still all enjoy the occasional trip to Taco Bell or McDonalds). My older children have also taken a page from our book and are eating healthy.
Make it a family thing and let your daughter help choose a menu and some recipes. Let her help shop for the ingredients. Teach her (and learn yourself) about healthy eating and what to look for on labels as well as in quality produce.
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We have raised our kids to know how to cook for themselves so they don't just live on fast foods - they HAVE to learn this from as early as I can possibly get them interested and so far have had great luck with it. She is my youngest and she is a great cook - and she often helps and will be even more now - she is old enough to say what she likes and to try new things and is always open to that idea.
Coconut oil - I bought a jar of that recently - someone told me to use it to pop my popcorn but I REALLY think I did something bad wrong because it was the worst popcorn I've ever had or made. lol I either bought the wrong thing, mixed it wrong, used it wrong - something just went sideways on it hard. lol
We actually prefer to eat healthy as we can and we all love fresh over canned but sadly in my area, it is so hard and so expensive - they don't get up out of the box much and when they do, it is the single most expensive project you can imagine.
I tried to grow my own herb garden, more than a few times, and somehow I kill them, I think my green thumb was stolen by someone else - because I can't raise anything remotely resembling a plant for my lifes sake. lol
The rapeseed oil, I am looking into that for sure - thank you - we use a lot of olive oil, went back to real butter about a year or so ago when we realized how much water and nasty shit was in margarine. I have been doing my best to go as much more naturl as I can for a good while -
BUT
As you see why I started this thread, you guys have so much more valuable info than I could find on any search - I wanted people who actually eat this way and not just trying to sell me on something, I don't want to be sold on how to feed my daughter and end up with her in worse shape.
So I thank you!!