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SallyT
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Posted: April 03 2008 at 6:28pm \| IP Logged

I was Super-Nutty as well, though I'm not quite as organic as I used to be. We used to belong to an organic food co-op, and though I don't miss the work (which is why I dropped out finally), I do miss a lot of the food.

I frankly had very mixed feelings about Dreher's book, finding his ideas about "simplicity" often to be kind of rarified -- not that I wouldn't have loved, at certain periods of my life, to cook and serve the "simple" meals he describes, but I was busy trying to buy groceries with the change I'd scraped up out of all our pockets. Reading about pork medallions and good wine when the memory of washing 19p tins of baked beans, so that I could use the beans for something else, was a little too fresh in my mind somewhat jaundiced my appreciation of "simplicity" as he would have it.

But my kids have grown up eating a lot of organic and home-grown vegetables, a LOT of beans and rice, a LOT of homemade bread . . . I guess my take on how to get them to eat healthily is that when it's that or go hungry, they will learn to eat it . . . Ignore how they look at you, and just have stuff you know is good. Sometimes taste buds need training. You can also be stealthy. Add wheat germ and/or flaxseed meal to the waffle mix. Add flakes of frozen spinach to ground meat. They don't have to KNOW they're eating "health food."

What Jennifer says about not buying packaged or convenience food is true -- not buying that kind of thing can even out the budget a little, anyway. (of course, you can also buy enormously expensive organice convenience food . . . ).

OK, I have to go finish making dinner -- I'd really love to find a local source for chickens, because we eat chicken a lot, but this one, alas, comes with its complement of hormones and its quality-of-life baggage. There go my crunchy creds.

Sally

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Posted: April 04 2008 at 6:29pm \| IP Logged

I love shopping at Trader Joe's. I used to shop at Whole Foods but it was so expensive and then I found out they support Planned Parenthood so I had to stop. Then I was in and headed up a food co op. That was alot of work but the deals were great! I now shop mostly at Trader Joe's and another friend gets things from a food co op for me. We make bread almost daily and I rarely buy convenience foods. My kids can usually find *something* they like but they are very picky eaters. They have gone to bed hungry on occasion.

In the crunchy frame of mind we also use cloth diapers, all natural cleaners, etc. I'm very anti chemicals of any kind. I know it can be controversial but we also go to a homeopath instead of a regular dr (although he is also a MD). I actually just heard on Catholic Answers that homeopathy alone is OK. The Church hasn't made an official ruling on it. Anyway - I guess we would be considered "crunchy". My friend has a bumper sticker that says "Crunchy Conservative : Granalo but not nuts"

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