Comments on: Stop faking it! Eat frugalicious food!

By: Deiene Russo

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Crazylicio.uS » How not to be a starved college student » Blog Archive — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 23:32:43 +0000

[...] 1.Say no to FAKE foods – Basic rule is, if you can’t pronounce the ingredients then maybe you should not be eating it. [...]

By: fox

fox — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:45:45 +0000

Ryan: Feel free to “ramble” here. My “better half” actually calls my rambles “squawks,” so I’m all for getting the words out…especially when it comes to eating REAL food! OHHH, you must share your personal chef’s meals with us!

By: Ryan

Ryan — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:26:30 +0000

I couldn’t agree with you more!! My wife and I are trying our best to feed our family healthy foods and to teach our children the importance of eating healthy. Recently (2 years ago) my wife and I became vegitarian’s after reading “The China Study”. Today we buy everything organic and eat a very balanced diet of whole grains, beans, fruits and vegetables along with many soy and tofu products. We have not imposed this on our children, but all the meat and dairy we purchase for them is organic as well. When they are old enough to decide for themselves they can become vegetarian’s if they choose.

Recently we hired a personal chef to make us organic vegetarian meals. We do not have a maid or nanny and we drive one vehicle so we figured the money we saved on eating out we would put toward’s our personal chef. We both work and are meal making challenged to say the least, so we value this service very much. Now we know exactly what we are putting into our bodies all the time, which you cannot do when you go to a restaurant.

Sorry for the rambling, just wanted to give you a glimpse into how we try to maintain a healthy home. If you have not read “The China Study”, I highly recommend it.

Oh and one more thing, as for your tip on “pronunciation problems” tip, we always say, “If there are more than 5-6 ingredients in the product, then it is likely not healthy”

Cheers!

By: fox

fox — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 21:46:15 +0000

Mrs. Pillars: I am delighted to meet the Pillars family! Welcome! The pf dog story was fun to write, so I’m happy you enjoyed it along with Mr. Pillars. Indeed, food today kinda scares me, especially with today’s youth eating mostly packaged yucky things. Kudos to you for starting your son off right with real food. The bean story resonated with many parents like yourself – parents looking for ways to prepare healthy affordable meals their kids will enjoy. It’s so hard to get kids to eat right when the media markets pseudo foods to children.

By: Mrs Pillars

Mrs Pillars — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 21:22:23 +0000

Hello Squawkfox – I have just discovered your site – hubby sent me the link to your delightful article about learning pf from your dog. I enjoy cooking and will definitely be trying out some of the bean ideas. I quite agree with your notions about processed food. Since our son came along, I have been paying more and more attention to what we eat. Not only do I want to have him grow up healthy, but as an older mother, I want to improve my chances of being around a little longer. It somehow feels better to make my soups from scratch, knowing what the ingredients are or to bake my own bread – that stuff that lasts three weeks makes me wonder.

By: fox

fox — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 00:22:18 +0000

Chickadee: I think people have forgotten what real food looks and tastes like. It’s a wonder so many youth are obese on fabricated food as they are fat on phooey and starving for nutrition. I wish the schools would stop allowing pop machines and crap food in the schools as well. Indeed, it’s amazing how all the real food is really quite affordable when compared to packaged pop culture concoctions. When I took the photograph above I couldn’t help but wonder..how can that food not look delicious? Simple, we’ve been marketed to desire junk.

By: Chickadee

Chickadee — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 20:34:56 +0000

Yes! real food!

Isn’t it wonderful (and ironic) that the best and healthiest foods are also the most frugal? Eating this way helps us live well *and* below our means.

I think that schools should teach *everyone* basic nutrition and cooking with real foods… it should be considered a type of literacy: ‘health literacy’? The cost of this program would be balanced by less disease to be treated by our Canadian healthcare system. The processed-food industry wouldn’t like that, but people have the right to this knowledge.