The First Day of School

This summer, my mom bought me a meal planning book at the CHEA convention, so today I gathered that book, my favorite cookbook called Deceptively Delicious, and a book I found in our Charter School library called Healthy Foods, by Leanne Ely. I spread them out and read and planned for about 4 hours. It was so much fun!!!!

Here are some things I've learned in my reading and documentary watching...

1. Margarine is way worse for you than butter. It has 0 nutrients and all it is, is fake, artificially colored, flavored plastic. Any cook loves a good excuse to use real butter, so here is mine.

2. When we started getting the so-called "experts" is when we started getting people who are seriously overweight and seriously underweight.  Experts try to tell you that you should only eat protein,  fat free, or sugar free foods.  The truth is that everyone is different and every body needs different amounts of different kinds of nutrition.  

3. Some meat companies would rather fill their ground beef with an ammonia paste, than have healthy cows. The cows live up to their knees in their own excrement in crowded pens rather than grazing in wide open fields the way God designed it. 

4. There are 21 ingredients in fast food chicken nuggets and the last one is chicken!

5. We should try to eat seasonal fruits and vegetables. God made our bodies to need certain foods at certain times of the year.

6. If you ask your grocery store to sell  more organic food, chances are, they will.

Why am I doing this blog?

I have loved cooking as long as I can remember. When I was just an infant, my mom would stick me in my bouncer seat in the kitchen and tell me what she was doing as she was cooking, just to keep me happy.  Even though it was more trouble for her, when I got a little older, my mom would often let me help her in the kitchen. Little did she know, that would start my deep love and appreciation of cooking, and it all paid off because now I do most of the dinner making.  Today my mom is sick, and she didn't have to worry about feeding her family.  For dinner I made my great-grandma Cottie's recipe of homemade rolls (only with whole wheat instead of white flour) with BBQ pulled pork and white corn.

This summer I watched Food Inc and I became obsessed with eating organic and healthy foods. Since I was starting Jr. High, my mom said I could do Nutrition/Cooking for my elective. Then we had the idea for us to chronicle my adventures on my very own blog! So here it goes.....