Old Mother Hubbard
Went to the cupboard,
To give her poor dog a bone:
When she came there,
The cupboard was bare,
And so her poor dog had none.

My little dogs, Phoebe and Mille, never have to worry about getting a dog bone. Although ol’ Mother Hubbard’s dog wasn’t as fortunate. In my last blog, “Food Storage: A Crisis Savings Account”, I offered numerous reasons as to why having a well-stocked pantry is wise. When you purchase items on sale and in bulk, you’ll stretch your grocery dollars. Planning for an unforeseen event isn’t difficult and stocking up doesn’t have to take lots of money. (Unless, you purchase pricey ready made emergency meals.)

How much food do you have in your house right now? Take a look at your pantry and in your freezer. Chances are you might make it a few days or even a week without going to the store. Could your family eat for a month…three months…or even a year? You should NEVER go into debt to build up your pantry. If your family is already in financial crisis, because of loss of employment or other personal catastrophe, this won’t apply. But, if you want to prepare for a possible family emergency or inflation-proof your pantry keep reading.

Where to Store Food
Is your kitchen pantry large enough for what you want to accomplish? If you plan on using a portion of your basement, never store food on the cement floor and keep it six inches from cement walls.

How to Store Items
I used to write the date I purchased the food item on the can. Then, companies began posting “Best By” dates. I now write the “Best Buy” date on the lid with a black marker. My most recent purchase might not be the item which was most recently produced. Although, canned food is usually good past the “Best By” date. The items with the newest date are placed behind older dated foods. Never use a can which has expanded or bubbled.

Grains, beans, and the like should be stored in mouse/bug proof containers which are acceptable for food. I buy garlic by the bag and hang it in my basement. Onions and potatoes also are kept in the cool of my basement. Once potatoes have sprouted, especially if they have a green tinge, it’s not advisable to eat them.

Aaron decides where to store his canned goods.
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Where to Begin
Your food storage should begin with foods your family normally eats. Then purchase more. Items to consider are basics like grains (rice, beans, oatmeal, lentils, flour, etc.). Rice and beans make a complete protein. So that’s a good place to begin. Do you pop your own popcorn in a hot air popper? You should, it’s healthier and cheaper than the microwave variety. Popcorn also stores very well. Raisins and other dried fruit also do well in storage. So do seeds for sprouts.

There are a few items that will last forever. I think pasta and honey have a shelf life of a thousand years. So you’ll want to stock up on these. Tea is another item that will last forever in storage.

Cans of tuna, salmon, and chicken always make yummy sandwiches and quick meals. Having extra is always a good idea. Do you like sardines or anchovies? If you do, then add cans of these to your storage. Applesauce is my favorite canned fruit, so I have jars of applesauce in my basement food storage. I use a lot of canned tomatoes as well. I buy them by the case.Do you regularly eat canned soup? I don’t, but if you do, that’s another item that might be in your food storage. I do use a lot of organic chicken broth, so you’ll see that stored in my house.

Quality is important to me. Although there are those whose pantries are stocked with a huge food supply for a famine (like Joseph in Genesis) or the biblical End Time Tribulation, both seven-year events. Then, the cost is a major factor. For me, purchasing whole foods is essential. Foods without a lot of additives like altered fats, MSG, and the like. You’ll find  “My Unofficial Costco Organic Foods List,” helpful, especially when getting started.

Buy in Bulk
Obviously, purchasing items when they’re on sale is the best time to stock up. If you have a Costco, Sam’s Club or other big box membership, you’re already purchasing bulk items. Just plan for a little longer: buy an extra case. You can purchase bags of rice and beans in those stores as well as in Super WalMart. Some grocery stores will give you a case discount if you ask. Although Super WalMart will not (I asked), probably because their prices are lower. Whole food stores almost always have a bulk section. And you can order larger amounts from them as well. I just ordered 25 pounds of lentils and 50 pounds of wheat grain.

Don’t Fear
Ultimately, it’s not what we store, but who we put our trust that will get us through tough times. In Deuteronomy it says, “The Lord Himself goes before you and will be with you; He will never leave you nor forsake you. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged.”

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Today, Approximately 90 percent of American’s food budget is spent on processed foods. No natter how much you might discuss a subject, (read about, study, etc.) it’s not until you get around to doing something that anything will actually change! Remember, small changes over time make a big difference.

Begin by making a few realistic, incremental changes — which are likely to last. Improving nutrition in your family’s meals is a process occurring over time. Healthful meals don’t have to take a lot of time to be tasty. Julia Child took us all off the hook when she said, “You don’t have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces –  just good food from fresh ingredients.”

Being prepared with frequently used whole foods in you pantry and having a few pre-made healthy items on hand is the key to successful, hassle-free, nutritious mealtimes. A few extra minutes planned in advance of your week will reap ten-fold during your most hectic days.

Aaron agrees, “Talk doesn’t cook rice!”

Traditional time-saving meal preparations include bulk meal cooking, multi-use recipes, and shared cooking groups with friends. I find for busy families, basic ingredient bulk cooking takes the least amount of preparation and planning. Cooking extra in bulk cooking allows for the other time-saving preparation, as well as spur-of-the-moment meals.

I don’t know how many times I’ve decided what’s for dinner at five o’clock. Having pre-made brown rice, grilled chicken and hard-boiled eggs available makes a last-minute dinner decision a snap. Many of the kid-friendly recipes in Baby Bites: Transforming a Picky Eater into a Healthy Eater call for these prepared-ahead ingredients. When you have brown rice, chicken and boiled eggs in your refrigerator you are guaranteed to solve your dinner dilemma when your day runs wild!

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Your kids eating habits will change when YOU change.

We need to look at ourselves first, if we want our kids to change their eating habits. Any goals for healthy children come from a sincere desire to change yourself. When you change your habits, your kids will, too.

Mason & Violet make a New Year’s resolution to eat whole foods.

I don’t know how many parents have told me they have tried to get their kids to stop eating junk foods…but their cupboards are full of chips and soda. (Of course, there’s lots of additional help for your picky eater. Click Here to purchase Baby Bites: Transforming a Picky Eater into a Healthy Eater.)

Your goals should be positive. Research has shown that negative feelings are a frequent cause of relapse in behavior-change programs. Focus on the positive. For example, resolve to “eat healthier” rather than “no junk food.” Both resolutions have the same end result, the first focuses on the positive.

Make Time to Cook
The number one reason why our families eat poorly is that we don’t want to cook. Fast foods do NOT provide the nutrients we need to remain healthy. Yes, cooking takes time. There is really no excuse for not cooking, other than we don’t want to.

Even those who don’t know have much time to cook can eat healthy… Click Here. We have appliances designed to cut cooking time (pressure cookers) and others (crock pots) which allow you to be out of the house while dinner is cooking. Making double size batches of casseroles, pot roasts, and basic ingredients like brown rice, the next meal is a matter of reheating.

Shop Wisely
Reading labels is the only way to know what’s in the food you purchase. It takes a little more time in the beginning. You will quickly find additive-free products. If you store highly processed cookies, crackers, chips and sodas in your pantry, that’s what your kids will eat. When you purchase real food that’s what your kids will snack on: fruit (including dried fruit like raisins), nuts, seeds, and veggies. Click Here for 7 Tricks of the Trade.

Incorporate Whole Foods
You’ll eat at least 5 servings of fruits and vegetables a day when you have fruit and vegetables readily available. A half cup of cooked vegetables, one cup of raw leafy vegetables, or one small whole fruit counts as one serving. You’ll incorporate healthy snacking when you have nuts, seed, and fruit in your kitchen. Get your kids involved. They will eat more whole vegetables when they help out in the kitchen. Set aside at one day a week for each child to be your kitchen helper or chef of the day.

Finally, don’t get discouraged. If you slip into unhealthy patterns, redirect your course. You’ll be glad you did.

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More people will be entertaining this month, than any other time of year. The challenge is how to eat healthy when sugar, white flour, altered fats, high fructose corn syrup and artificial food flavorings and colorings are everywhere. In fact, holiday gatherings are landmines of hidden chemicals.

You can still enjoy the season, yet remain healthy if you follow the following tips:

Presents make all kids happy!

1) It makes sense to feed your family a light healthy snack before going to a holiday gathering. Parents often don’t have much control over what their kids eat at other people’s homes (especially Grandma’s house). The trick is to eat whole foods first. Chips, candy, cookies and other sugary foods won’t be so tempting, if your child’s tummy has previously eaten a whole food.

2) At the party, load up your (and your kid’s) plate with veggies, fruit, cheese, and slices of turkey or roast beef. After you and your kids have feasted on real food, indulge in the holiday’s treats. You won’t eat as much, because you’ll already be satisfied with whole food. Keep a look out for super foods: blueberries and other fruits, veggie slices, salmon, deviled eggs, and nuts.

3) Foods to avoid or at least hold off eating until you’ve had some real food: Crackers are the worst for altered fats. It’s hard to find a cracker that doesn’t have interesterified  fat as an ingredient. Candy and cookies are loaded with sugar and food colorings. Baked goods usually are made with white flour, lots of sugar, many times have altered fats, and are devoid of nutrients.

4) Choose your beverage wisely. Soda pop has approximately 10 to 14 teaspoons of sugar in one can. (I say, save your sugar consumption for chocolate, and the darker the chocolate the better it is for you!)

5) Keep a proper perspective. If you over indulge in junk foods, get back on track New Year’s Day.

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For the last 30 years, our Thanksgivings have been as natural (chemical free) as possible. Most Thanksgiving dinners are loaded with ingredients the Pilgrims never heard of: High Fructose Corn Syrup, MSG, artificial colors and flavors, polysorbate 60, sodium caseinate, and transfat. These ingredients are so commonplace today, that for many Thanksgiving wouldn’t be Thanksgiving with them.

I was motivated all those years ago to eliminate chemicals from our Thanksgiving feast, because our four-year-old daughter, Jenny, reacted to the additives and sugars in processed foods. Today, there are over 3,000 additives in our food supply, we have Genetically Modified Foods (GMO), and sugar is paramount. In fact, we now have a new sugar: High Fructose Corn Syrup (HFCS).

Savannah and Ashlyn are determined to help their mom make their Thanksgiving healthy and yummy.

According to a USDA’ report, about one-quarter of the calories consumed by the average American is in the form of added sugars; the majority comes from high fructose corn syrup. Part of what makes HFCS such an unhealthy product is that it is metabolized to fat in your body far more rapidly than any other sugar.

Making your Thanksgiving healthier really isn’t as difficult as you might first think. Purchase a turkey with the nutrition label listing only one ingredient: turkey. Save money and make your own stuffing with leftover whole wheat bread. Instead of soda pop, containing HFCS, for the kids, offer sparkling apple juice. Don’t use box mixes or canned vegetables, like sweet potatoes.

I’d like to know who came up with “candied sweet potatoes.” Aren’t sweet potatoes, well, sweet, without marshmallows? Did you know that marshmallows are really sugar-mallows, because they no longer contain any marshmallow root. Marshmallows are made from sugar, primarily corn syrup, water and gelatin.

I suggest regulating sugar in all its forms to dessert. Delete it from the main course. And, totally eliminate High Fructose Corn Syrup from your Thanksgiving meal altogether.

Many of the dishes we serve during the Thanksgiving meal are loaded with sugar. Why aren’t they considered dessert? This is beyond me! Jello “salad” is one that stands out. Jello is made with only five ingredients: water, gelatin, sugar, and artificial colors and flavors. This doesn’t sound much like a “salad” to me.

Cranberry sauce is a Thanksgiving perennial. They say there is always an exception to the rule. This is my exception for sugar during Thanksgiving dinner. Cranberries by their very nature are tart. I always purchase cranberries in the produce department and cook them with less sugar than is suggested in the directions. Some make their cranberry sauce with apple juice instead of sugar, but I haven’t been able to find the right combination that suits our family.

Pre-made, whipped toppings, like Cool Whip, are primarily air, sugar and transfat. Make your own whipped topping with real whipping cream. Not only will it taste better, it’s better for you. Cool Whip is made of water, corn syrup and high fructose corn syrup, hydrogenated coconut (this is the transfat) and palm kernel oil (CPKO), sodium caseinate, vanilla extract, xanthan and guar gums, polysorbate 60 (glycosperse), and beta carotene.

A natural Thanksgiving begins with having yummy, healthy recipes and then purchasing whole foods. Now’s the time to do a little planning. Read labels and find products free from sugar and artificial ingredients. Take a close look at the ingredients in your favorite recipes and make healthy substitutions. Finally, keep sugar regulated to dessert.

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A new nutrition study found that children as young as 12 months are consuming one third of their daily calories between meals. This constant snacking develops unhealthy eating habits.

The Nestlé Feeding Infants and Toddlers Study began in 2002. The study examined the evolution of children’s diets from birth through to preschool, including sources of calories, key nutrients and snacking patterns.

The survey was expanded in 2008 to find out whether the eating habits of young children in America had changed since 2002.

More than 3,200 children are included in the survey. This study is the largest, most-comprehensive study of the diets and eating habits of infants, toddlers and preschoolers in the United States.

Tristan wants a snack, but his mom said “Not now it’s too close to dinner.”

Researchers found toddlers from the age of 12 months and older consumed one-third of their daily calories from snacking between meals. That is shocking when you consider that 10 percent of young children between 2 and 5 years old are categorized as obese.

“We’re seeing poor eating habits starting early in life, and they mirror those of older children and adults,” said Dr Kathleen Reidy, Global Head of Nutrition Science, Baby Food, at Nestlé Nutrition. “It’s important to establish the foundation for healthy diets early in life when eating habits and preferences are being formed.”

Your children eat what you purchase and eat yourself. Children are snacking all day, because their parents are doing the same thing. If you want your kids to have good eating habits, you need to model them yourself. Simple dietary changes can make huge improvements in the quality of kids’ diets.

Three Simple Steps to Improve Your Child’s Diet
1. Limit snacking.
2. Time snacking to 1½ to 2 hours before a meal.
3. Snacks should be mini-meals. Offer healthy options such as fruits, vegetables, yogurt and whole grain foods.

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Americans are well fed, but malnourished. This may come as a surprise, but people who are malnourished are not necessarily starving. Malnutrition is the persistent lack of access to necessary vitamins and minerals in your diet.

Processed foods have replaced whole foods in America. The modern diet consists of lifeless processed foods devoid of most nutrients. Theses foods produce little enzyme activity. They contain little fibrous material.

Ava likes to feed herself!

In addition, these foods are loaded with chemicals, which have been added to make the food look more attractive. Even fresh fruits and vegetables, dairy, grains and meats often contain chemicals from pesticides, herbicides and hormones.

Between the ages of eight and 20 months, children are especially vulnerable to malnutrition. This is the time babies are learning to feed themselves and are weaned. They can develop chronic malnutrition if their dietary needs are not met.

Signs of poor nutrition are thinning or brittle hair, having flaky or brittle fingernails and being physically weak. In addition, chronic malnutrition exposes children to the risk of cognitive disabilities caused by not getting enough nutrients while their brains are developing.

Nutrition is not simply about how much food people consume, but also the quality. People with chronic malnutrition are sometimes overweight as a result of their diets, because they are eating too many calories, but not receiving the vitamins and nutrient needed for health.

An Ounce of Prevention

1. Breastfeed a baby for at least six months.
   (This is considered the best way to prevent early-childhood malnutrition.)
2. Consume plenty of fruits, grains and vegetables.
3. Limit foods containing bleached flours, sugars and altered fats.
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Most nutritionists tow the party line: low fat milk, no eggs and replace butter with margarine. Something is wrong, because when we follow their advice and we are sicker.

This makes perfect sense to Sadie.

There are approximately 50,000 edible plant species, but only 150 are actively cultivated today. Just three: wheat, corn and rice provide 60 percent of the world’s food. The best defense for food allergies is to vary the food you eat and avoid lifeless food (sugar, white flour and hydrogenated vegetable oils).

The challenge for every family is to raise healthy children. You can best accomplish that by learning how to cook. All say that again, if you have a picky eater, it is imperative that you begin to cook. There just isn’t any other way to transform your picky eater into a healthy eater.

Not only cooking at home, but learning how to prepare food that provides the most nutrients. One of my favorite cook/text books is Sally Fallon’s Nourishing Traditions. You’ll not only get recipes, but lots of food history as well. Fallon debunks most trendy food fads and confronts the “diet dictocrats.”

A Light in the Darkness
I have just become acquainted with Dr. Natasha Campbell-McBride’s work. She has a very comprehensive website: www.GAPS.me.com I can tell she will be one of my most quoted professionals. She’s a Neurologist whose autistic son prompted her intensive study into the cause and treatment of the disorder. She treated her son OFF the autistic spectrum! Her book, Gut And Psychology Syndrome is one I will soon purchase.

Dr. Campbell-McBride’s interview with Dr. Mercola was emailed to me by my daughter Joy. Joy said, “This is hands down the best interview I have ever heard that helped me understand why these conditions continue to get worse with each generation. And what’s even better it’s something that CAN be reversed or prevented in the first place.”

I agree! In fact, I think every parent (or anyone considering to become a parent) should listen to this interview. In a little over an hour, McBride explains how disease is so rampant. She explains why Autism (and all the other syndromes on the spectrum) are so common today. Best, she gives a step-by-step process to reverse the diagnosis!

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Gut and Psychology Syndrome (GAPS) is a condition, which establishes a connection between the functions of the digestive system and the brain.  In the book Gut and Psychology Syndrome, she describes how the gut (large and small intestines) becomes disturbed. It begins in the birth canal with exposure to the mother’s flora. Both beneficial and abnormal flora is passed along by the mother.

The interior of the gut is the size of a tennis court and is covered with about 4½ pounds of 500 species of bacteria, viruses and fungi/yeasts. Wonderful life-supporting probiotic strains of bacteria, beneficial viruses and yeasts coexist with some of the most virulent and pathogenic stains of each of these types of organisms and as long as the beneficial types are in abundance, the others do not cause harm.

Obviously, McBride goes into great detail and the protocol is a careful introduction of whole foods, especially those containing natural probiotics. If your child is a picky eater, you will benefit from not only McBride’s book, Gut And Psychology Syndrome, but Baby Bites: Transforming a Picky Eater into a Healthy Eater.

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Toxic Food
How does a mom go from purchasing Lucky Charms to Ezekiel 4:9: Sprouted Whole Grain Cereal? Usually the transformation to whole foods comes in baby steps. Unless one of her kids is in jeopardy, then it can be an instant transformation.

It’s shocking when moms first realize the Standard American Diet (S.A.D.) is counter to health. I was like most young moms, thinking I was giving my children a healthful diet. That was until my four-year-old daughter, Jenny, was found to be extremely sensitive to the chemicals in our food. Nitrates, artificial food colorings and artificial flavors added to processed foods were the worst for her.

I had no idea of the numerous additives present in our food. After taking inventory of what was in my kitchen, I realized the problem began in with my purchases. Not only Jenny, but the entire family needed to change what we were eating. I felt responsible for my daughter’s problems. I was the one grocery shopping.

Katelyn says breakfast is yummy with whole grain cereal and blueberries.

Not wanting to wait until we consumed all the processed food in my kitchen, I gave most of it away. I surmised that it would be more difficult to change only one child’s diet, after all I had four girls. So the entire family went on a whole foods adventure. We had the initial time of adjusting our taste buds. Whole wheat bread tastes different from white. Whole grain breakfast cereals are not as sweet as kids’ cereals, even if you don’t purchase Lucky Charms.

Although we made an instant transformation to whole foods, it’s been an ongoing learning adventure. I discover new things about food every day. Most of it is disturbing. Nourishing your family shouldn’t take a science degree.

My girls are now grown and I have eight grandchildren. My daughters all are dedicated to healthy eating in their homes. They often have passed along helpful information to me on my food journey. The more I learn about our food supply, the more determined I am to eat food (not chemicals) as it was designed by God. I am not alone. Other moms have gone the same route.

Robyn O’Brien, author of Unhealthy Truth: How our food is making us sick and what we can do about it, made the transformation to whole foods when her youngest child was found to be extremely allergic to eggs. Thinking she would eliminate eggs from only one child’s diet, changed over time to examining what her entire family was regularly consuming.

O’Brien, like many of us, came to realize all her children were suffering because of the food they were eating. We can experience “mommy guilt” when we first come to that understanding. After all, it’s usually mommy who purchases the food the kids eat.

Mommy guilt doesn’t help at all.

Believing Lies
We all believed the FDA, who affirms that additives and GMOs are safe. Food advertisers convince us processed foods are really healthful. Fast and junky food is pushed on kids’ programming. Once we begin to know the truth about our toxic food supply, our shopping changes.

You can’t have a do-over for yesterday, but you are in control of what you eat today. God has given everyone a self-healing body. When we give our bodies nourishing food that was created for us, then healing happens! Not everyone will throw out previously purchased food, but you can begin to make wise choices the next time you are grocery shopping.

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Bratman says for some people healthy eating can become an obsession. People who suffer from ortorexia are obsessed with eating organic food, the idea of eating healthy constantly influence their life. Patients with ortorexia are trying to find a variant of optimal and healthy nutrition plan through their diet.

What’s Normal?
Remember the scene in Young Frankenstein, when Igor, the hunch-backed assistant to Dr. Frankenstein, retrieves the wrong brain from the lab. He says the brain belonged to “Abby” …Abby Normal!
Tristan is sad that Nonna isn’t “normal.”

Eating junk foods is the new normal. That’s a fact. So now those who are concerned about healthy eating are abnormal. It’s ridiculous to even consider that healthy eating is a disorder. For all but the last 60 years of human history only non-GMO, additive-free whole foods were available. But there it is. If you are “overly concerned” with healthy foods today, you are ill.

Obsession
The healthy eating obsession is defined as “…rigid rules around eating. Refusing to touch sugar, salt, caffeine, alcohol, wheat, gluten, yeast, soy, corn and dairy foods. Any foods that have come into contact with pesticides, herbicides or contain artificial additives are also out.”

Having so many rules about which foods are healthy may have unexpected results. Bratman says the obsession about which foods are “good” and which are “bad” means orthorexics can end up “malnourished.” How he gets from eating organic food to malnourished, is a real stretch.

Bratman says most of his clients who are orthorexic are healthy and have no major health problems. So he makes up a disorder for them, because he worries that a orthorexic person might become isolated. Perhaps he should be concerned about the cat lady with 200 cats. She’s isolated. No one will come into her smelly house. How about the man, who can’t leave his room, because he’s too fat to get through the door. He needs help, not the person trying to get or remain healthy.

Healthy Foods Fixation
Can anything become an obsession? Yes, of course. If eating healthy keeps you inside your home, then it’s a fear. I don’t know anyone who won’t occasionally eat out. Frankly, I can’t afford to eat out a lot. I don’t have the government option of printing more money when I spend it all in restaurants.

People are anxious because our food supply has dramatically changed. It takes a scientist to figure out what’s in it. The FDA is no help at all, because they approved all the chemicals present in our food. Not only that, most produce, unless you purchase organic, has been genetically modified. Allergies have dramatically increased in the last few years. This is directly related to our new toxic food loaded with artificial ingredients and GMOs.

According to Bratman, people who avoid entire food groups, have a mental disorder. The truth is that it’s usually a health disorder, not mental. Today, because of tampering with food, many people, including children cannot tolerate milk or wheat or eggs. Sometimes it can be life-threatening.

Bratman didn’t do us any favors making up a new disorder. People who know nothing about our food supply, will only use this diagnosis to affirm their bad choices and demonize the rest of us. In the long run, as a nation we will be worse off because of Bratman’s new disorder.

My name must be Abby…Abby Normal. I guess, they’ll be coming for me next. Will you come to see me on visiting day? I hate to be isolated.

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