Friday, February 2, 2007 - Meal Planning, Organic Foods and Cloned Meat and Milk
Ok, I guess I left my post about Goat Horns up long enough and no one has any answers for me... boooo hoooo.....
Onto something else!
I have come up with an idea for making our Meal Planner more fun and less binding. Not that we stick to it exactly each day, but since we buy groceries for the week according to that plan, we follow it closely enough.
We really hate going into town to the grocery stores... so, we don't want to have to run out and get something we don't have! A lot of times, Matt can pick something up if we really need it, but that isn't necessary too often.
So, something I came up with is to print all of the dinner plans off onto 4x6 index cards and let the girls (who do a lot of the dinner prearation) pick what they want for that evening. Sometimes we haven't started something soon enough or thawed something... 0: so, we change some things then, anyway.
This will get them thinking and planning in the morning, as they pick out the Lunch and Dinner meals for the day. It will give them more freedom to plan and help us be more organized.
In other things, I was so happy to find a 2# pkg. of Organic Spring Mix of greens yesterday. It was marked down 1/2 price! I have started using greens and other veggies along with grains as I cut back on our meats, so I was happy to find this. We have been eating a green salad each night with dinner and sometimes one during the day, so we have had an abundance of greens!
Kroger has a very good selection of organic foods here in Columbia City, I have found.
You might wonder why I am cutting back on our meats... Well, a friend of mine told me about a 'blurb' that the FDA is going ahead with producing cloned meat and selling it, unlabeled in with regular meats. I don't know about you, but I am not interested in eating it.
So, I google FDA cloned meats and what do I find?? I find that, as of Oct. 2005 "it has recently become clear that a few offspring of cloned pigs and cows are already trickling into the food supply. Many in agriculture believe such genetic copies are the next logical step in improving the nation's livestock."
So, before I even knew that, I had decided to get our family into eating other protein sources. I already knew that the regular meat you buy in the store is pretty-well full of antibiotics, pesticides and other garbage anyway. Thus our desire to raise our own meat!
Did you know that pesticides from the foods we eat stay in the fat tissues in our own bodies? AND... in addition to cancer, premature hormonal changes in our children and other things, it is also a cause of weight gain? YIKES!
I heard a few years back that American breastfeeding moms were found to have the highest percentage of toxins in their breastmilk of all other countries. That has to do with everything from the food we eat to our choices of cleaning materials, the everyday things we expose ourselves to, etc. Not too reassuring, is it?
Makes it hard to take care of these bodies God gave us, doesn't it?
Be Blessed!
Jacque
LINKS:
FDA Issues Draft Documents on the Safety of Animal Clones
FDA: Cloned animals' meat is safe
Clone-Generated Milk, Meat MAy Be Approved
FDA Plan Would OK Clone Meat
FDA Is Set to Approve Milk, Meat From Clones
Food Poisoning/Food Safety
Fatal Harvest, Myth #2: Industrial Food is Safe....
Pesticide residues in food; contaminated fruit and vegetables;
Organic meat products versus oestrogens (female growth hormones)
Free radicals and antioxidants in fresh produce
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Friday, February 2, 2007 - Yikes! |
| Posted by mejerrymouse |
We've been trying to cut back on our intake of meat for this reason and to cut back on our food budget. We're learning to find local farmers to buy from when we can. Here are some sites I've found helpful:
http://www.eatwellguide.org/index.cfm
http://www.eatwild.com/products/index.html
http://www.realmilk.com/
I've found that it doesn't help with the budget much as most farmers I've found are rather pricey. Guess it's good that we're cutting back on meat :D Just don't want to be eating cloned meat or genetically modified organisms, etc. Hence, homesteading...but there's only so much we can do ourselves. We're trying to learn how to network--hopefully, we'll be able to help others as we learn more.
Anyway, thanks for the post ;)
Elizabeth |
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Friday, February 2, 2007 - Yikes! |
| Posted by mejerrymouse |
We've been trying to cut back on our intake of meat for this reason and to cut back on our food budget. We're learning to find local farmers to buy from when we can. Here are some sites I've found helpful:
http://www.eatwellguide.org/index.cfm
http://www.eatwild.com/products/index.html
http://www.realmilk.com/
I've found that it doesn't help with the budget much as most farmers I've found are rather pricey. Guess it's good that we're cutting back on meat :D Just don't want to be eating cloned meat or genetically modified organisms, etc. Hence, homesteading...but there's only so much we can do ourselves. We're trying to learn how to network--hopefully, we'll be able to help others as we learn more.
Anyway, thanks for the post ;)
Elizabeth |
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