Our humble beginnings

Hello!  I really don't know why I am doing this.  There are a million other blogs out there. Who will want to read mine?  I am a home-schooling mom of two active teenagers, so it isn't like I am twiddling my thumbs with nothing else to do.  I am not an aspiring writer just longing to see my life in type.  With that being said I feel like I have something to share with people so I will give it a whirl for a while and see how it all goes.

We are just the 'average' American family with 2 teenagers, 3 dogs, a picket fence, and a mini-van.  Life was cruising along.  Weekly shopping trips to the grocery for "big shopping's".  Periodic trips back for missed items.  We didn't eat a lot but we didn't watch what we ate either.  Our food budget was growing weekly between the economy and teenagers.  I clipped coupons but it was getting crazy.

Our children were always sick; our daughter with asthma, our son with headaches and stomach aches.  We had and have been to so many specialists and they are on a small arsenal of medications with no major changes.  What is wrong with our kids?  With us.  We are 'young' yet we were at the doctors for one of us almost weekly.  Our parents were healthier then us...Why?

Oh, I had thought about 'getting back to the earth', going 'natural' and all of that.  However, being a one income family (and a very very very modest income at that) I didn't think I would ever be able to afford organic and whole foods.

Then through divine interventions here and there, news articles, friends at home school group, a wonderful family we met on a cruise; I thought I might be able to swing this.  Friends kept telling me of books to read and movies to watch.

It FINALLY hit me, we can't afford not  to do this.

So, I invite you to join us...(a real average family, with limited income and time, a couple picky eaters, and used to processed everything) on our journey to a Family on F.O.O.D. (Finally On Organic Diet).

I hope to share with you how our health changes, how to do it on a budget, and with limited time.  I don't have a green thumb, I am not Martha Stuart, and I won't be perfect.  We live in a small town with limited shopping. The nearest Trader Joe's or Whole Foods are hours away.  So, when we can't get organic we will do whole food.  We aren't vegan but we are going to try to cut down on the portions of meat and how often we eat them.  When we do eat meat, I hope to have it be farm raised with no chemicals, grass fed, etc.  Like I have seen stated before what our Great Grandparents used to call "food".  Heaven knows they were healthier then we are.

It might not always be pretty but it should be fun and worth a laugh every once in a while.

Now let's start this journey together!