Well, that was easy!
I was starting to break out in hives at the thought of changing out products I normally. I don't know why I did that to myself... all that needless worry.
I have been eating healthy for years, and feeding my family the same way. Years I tell you. I started getting health conscience back in the late eighties right after the birth of my first son. After all, I was not about to feed anything unhealthy to my baby.
I adjusted how I cooked, which was not all that difficult being that I had not been cooking long. When I was single, there really wasn't a need to cook - I spent my time with my family and ate with them or I went out. So needless to say I had not developed many bad habits.
I stopped making fried chicken, fried anything for that matter, which was not a difficult task. After all frying foods somehow ended up being messy with all the splatter, and a hassle afterwards with the clean-up. So... that was a welcomed adjustment.
Since my early twenties was at the height of the workout frenzy with Jane Fonda showing up everywhere in her workout clothes and leggings to match, being health conscience was almost done for you. Living in Los Angeles was an added bonus... the skinny capital of the world... being healthy and being weight conscious became second nature.
Twenty-five years later my cooking has not only gotten better and healthier, but with the help of television networks such like the Food Network and the Cooking Channel (which I have been watching since they came on,) cooking has become an all time love of mine, as well as my five year old little girl (or rather my Sous Chef as Calley likes to be referred to.)
When it came to shopping this weekend, granted I had "the list" with me, it wasn't all that difficult. I even ended up putting the list down... I was reassured that I was already shopping healthy.
I use shopping as an opportunity to teach my daughter. I have taught my daughter to not only compare prices, but to compare nutritional values. Looking for things like the "white check mark" on General Mills cereals, white checks = whole grains, or looking for the "Zero Trans Fat" label, to mention a couple. And of course, we have had lessons in picking produce and checking expiration dates as well.
As I mentioned in the past, I do not buy tv dinners or processed foods. I will, however buy frozen organic fruits and vegetables, they end up being less expensive and stay fresh longer. I must add that the freezer is beginning to get a bit crowded... guess we need to start looking for a stand alone freezer. Wink, Wink.
Don't forget that when you are reading nutritional labels on foods, look at the portion amounts. Remember the labels are misleading. In order for the numbers to look good, manufacturers list the per portion values, as opposed to the whole container. Not only that, but what we may think a portion is to us, more times than not, it is not what the manufacturer has in mind. They want to sell their product as being healthy and listing "per portion" nutritional values helps their products sell, as well as making their nutritional numbers appear healthier.
In conclusion, while the list of 99 healthy foods that Dr. Oz provided was a great help, it proved to me that I was already doing the right thing for myself and my family. I will continue to read labels, include plenty of fruits and vegetables and stick to whole grains in my family diet..
Here's to another glass of water!
Stay healthy and Think Positive!
Blessings to you and yours.
Images courtesy of google images.
Okay. When you think of the word "celebration", what do you think of? I think of food... not just food, but delicious, decadent food... I think of drink... and you guessed it, not just any ordinary drinks too... and then there's dessert!.. and I mean yummy, delicious, sultry dessert. 
When the thought of a celebration comes to mind, the last thing that comes to mind is healthy eating, getting all your fruits and vegetables in, let alone diet food all together! Quite honestly, none of these food scream CELEBRATION! LOL! Quite the opposite. 
There's the Alkaline Diet, Alli, Atkins diet, Baby Food Diet, Belly Fat Cure, Best Life Diet, Big Breakfast Diet, Biggest Loser Diet, Biggest Loser Simple Swaps, Body for Life, Brown Fat Revolution, Cabbage Soup Diet, The Carb Lovers Diet, The Caveman (Paleo) Diet, Cheater's Diet, Cinch Diet, Cookie Diet, Detox Diets, The Diet Solution, Dr. Oz Ultimate Diet, Dr. Phil's Ultimate Weight Solution, Dukan Diet, The Eat-Clean Diet, Eat More Weigh Less, Eat Right for Your Type, Eat This - Not That, Eat What You Love, Eco Atkins Diet, Fast Food Diet, Fat Smash Diet, Flat Belly Diet, Flexitarian Diet, 5 Factor Diet, Flavor Point Diet, 4 Day Diet, Fruit Flash Diet, French Women Don't Get Fat, Fresh Diet, The FullBar Diet, G Free Diet, Gene Smart Diet, Glycemic Index Diet, Grapefruit Diet, Hallelujah Diet, HGG Diet, High School Reunion Diet, The Hormone Diet, Instinct Diet, Jenny Craig, The Kind Diet, LA Weight Loss, Lemonade Diet, Living Low-Carb, Macrobiotic Diet, Martha's Vineyard Diet, Master Your Metabolism, Mayo Clinic Diet, Medifast Diet, Mediterranean Diet, Morning Banana Diet, Naturally Thin Diet, New Atkins for a New You, New Beverly Hills Diet, NutriSystem, O2 Diet, Park Avenue Diet, Perricone Diet, Personality Type Diet, P.I.N.K. Method, Pritikin Principle, Protein Powder, Raw Food Diet, Rice Diet Solution, The 17 Day Diet, Shangri-La Diet, Skinny Vegan Diet, Slim Fast Plan, Sonoma Diet, South Beach Diet, South Beach Diet Supercharged, The Spectrum, Step Diet, Sugar Busters, Thin for Life, This Is Why You're Fat, 3 Day Diet, 3-Hour Diet, UltraMetabolism Diet, Volumetrics, What Color is Your Diet?, The Weigh Down, Weight Loss Cure, Weight Watchers, Dr. Andrew Weil, You- On A Diet, and The Zone to name a few. Phew!
I, by no means was degrading other blogs... all the blogs I have seen and read are terrific, informative, full of what we should be doing. Granted, I have a little of that in mine too... however, the average woman feels a little more comfortable getting motivated from a size 10 as opposed to a little intimidated from a size 0.
I have been eating healthy for years, and feeding my family the same way. Years I tell you. I started getting health conscience back in the late eighties right after the birth of my first son. After all, I was not about to feed anything unhealthy to my baby.
I adjusted how I cooked, which was not all that difficult being that I had not been cooking long. When I was single, there really wasn't a need to cook - I spent my time with my family and ate with them or I went out. So needless to say I had not developed many bad habits.
Since my early twenties was at the height of the workout frenzy with Jane Fonda showing up everywhere in her workout clothes and leggings to match, being health conscience was almost done for you. Living in Los Angeles was an added bonus... the skinny capital of the world... being healthy and being weight conscious became second nature. 
