I like to talk. Duh, right? Did you know that I'm actually a therapist. No really,
stop smirking. It's true! Well, not an active, gettin' my current therapy on kind of therapist (because I'm staying at home with my little loves) but I was once upon a time a
real girl that loved helping others help themselves. What does that have to do with the price of eggs in Egypt? Well, I'm going to start something on Saturday mornings called Let's Dish. I'm going to give my take and thoughts on something that is going on with me and my little world and I'd love your thoughts and opinions on it too! In the comment section we can have ourselves a full out group therapy share session - I'm getting excited already!
I'd love for you to join me - you are welcome to chime in, give oodles of input or just sit back, read and take it all in. Just one rule. Be nice. We all have different opinions and experiences and we can all learn something from everyone no matter if we agree or not. The world is mean enough as it is, let's lift eachother up!
Ready? Grab your coffee, pull up a chair and Let's Dish!
Ok, so I've been increasingly aware of what is in packaged food lately. You probably have been aware of this for years but for some reason it became really important when I had kids. Grab something random out of your cabinet and read the ingredients. I can't even pronounce some of that stuff! I've started to make some changes. Let's take the peanut butter and jelly in our cabinet for example. I replaced the store brand that I had with some Natural Skippy I was able to get for around a dollar with a coupon. I also recently replaced the very high fructose corn syrup enhanced jelly we were eating with All Fruit Spread. I had to make some wiggle room in our budget for it but for me, it was worth it. My son eats about 2-3 pbj's a week so it's important for me to have higher quality ingredients for something he eats on a regular basis.
In a perfect world, my children would only eat food in their natural form, or as close to it as possible, but we all know we
don't live in a perfect world. We have a budget, a pretty strict one. Organic food is expensive and while I try to make the best choices I can for our diet I wish I could do more. It actually pains me when I think about it. One of the main reasons I'm excited about being debt free is that we'll have more room in our grocery budget to buy bountiful fresh fruit and vegetables until then I'm doing the best I can. What's your take? Do you have any personal thoughts or experiences?
