tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4388732216957495693.post4881883041535513061..comments2013-04-10T13:26:34.005-05:00Comments on Soup Kitchen: FOODAshlea Campbell http://www.blogger.com/profile/05206946399223393309noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4388732216957495693.post-43959969132963932982011-12-13T22:32:51.285-06:002011-12-13T22:32:51.285-06:00I know this feeling. The love you feel from cookin...I know this feeling. The love you feel from cooking your family a healthy (smell good) meal! The reminders of why the hard work is worth it! And certainly the "living in the 1800's" part. I know how that pendulum swings. I took the same journey (am still taking it, in fact) you speak of here. It's like first we cut out HFCS, the we only ate wheat bread and ground turkey as opposed to the alternatives, then we cut out all pop and juice. Then it was bye-bye cow's milk, velveeta, and everything else that's chemically enhanced. Oh, then it was organic everything. Then we only ate local and fresh and in season. And then we got slammed with the bajillion allergies where we learned to cook with a ton of different flours and make our own bread/tortillas and just about everything from scratch. We even learned how to make a mock tomato sauce. And now that we've come down off of our allergy cooking, we are incorporating a few "bad" things on occasion. We still steer clear of McD's (because I know that's where Mak got the food-born bacteria that put her in the hospital), but I'll occasionally get tater tots and a vanilla coke from Sonic as special treat for the kids. Fortunately, it costs too much for a family of 7 to eat out much--so I guess that helps us to stay away from that junk. Our one fault right now that I want to focus on in the new year is pizza. We rely on it too much. On the flip side of having a family of 7 and the cost of eating out being too much, we can also get pizza really cheap. And for those nights when there is way too much going on in the Copeland house, we rely on that good stuff too much! Anyway, happy cooking. I totally get where you're coming from :)The Mamahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07088613315793599726noreply@blogger.com