well this week I am trying to adjust our eating habits and teach my kids that being healthy is good.. We aren't a huge junk food regularly family. We do the lolly at the shops most times we go but we don't have them in the cupboards and we don't have fizzy as a norm. we even cut out cordial which was fun but now the boys are used to and happy to drink water and the littlest LOVES milk. I got onto a book that was called additive alert www.additivealert.com.au and it was very interesting to see how much junk goes into our processed foods these days. After initially reading the book i felt like each day I was poisoning my kids with each mouthful but as i adjusted our eating habits, I noticed a huge change in behaviour, concentration (remember we are homeschoolers) and allergies. Our eldest son for two years running in springtime has had a big case of urticaria (hives). The first year to the point that they thought that he was having an anaphylactic reaction. It was very scary to say the least. This lead to him being put on phenergan, and other associated medicines and even ventolins and spacers ( our family does NOT have a family history of asthma). I wasn't happy to keep travelling down that road (especially since it had come out of nowhere), so I started looking at alternatives and adjusted our eating habits. We have not had urticaria this year and we plan to not have it again! We also have a son that has had a constant bumpy pimply rash on his tummy for a very long time. It isn't itchy but I have always wondered about it's origin. We have changed our shampoo for the boys to organic care ( which is quite cheap and has NO petro chemicals in them etc) and have changed our soap to goats milk soap. It seems to be lessening it and we will hopefully see an improvement over time.
So what next.... After changing some of our eating habits to lessen the amount of chemicals we were putting into our bodies (there is no wonder there is so much sickness and diesease out there these days) we have started on a journey of limiting our sugar intake and cooking more homecooked stuff. I was always big on home cooked and once you alot cooking into your life and choose that it is helping your family you find that it adds in easily. I cook lots in bulk and freeze which helps on the timewise situation. I am wondering if anyone knows of any good alternatives to sugar to add into the cooking of cakes, etc instead of using sugar?? email me or comment if you do.
I am in the process of buying a juicer so that the kids can help get healthy and we can have yummy HEALTHY things to have instead of junk all the time.. Cannot wait! I am also going on a unsugar kick that consists of me lessening my sugar intake. I am guilty of having 2 sugars (raw sugar as it is better for you than white) in each cup of tea and because I am a busy homeschooling mum (and out of being lazy at times) I survive on many cups of tea each day. This I am going to rectify too!!! Wish me luck (scared much...).
There are plenty of websites out there and facebook has awesome fan pages you can like. We love the healthy families for God page on facebook, stay at home mum page is good too and the heal thyself one on facebook is good for info too (these are all facebook pages) .
So as we journey along this road I shall try to keep you up to date with all the info I find and hopefully you will send me info that you have that would be helpful. Here's to a healthier family!!! CHEERS!!
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