Making an effort

Tonight, I had a spinach and broccoli salad with some pears and a little raspberry vinaigrette dressing.  It was delicious.  I have been trying to eat healthy and avoid meat when I can, especially if I don't know where the meat came from.  Last year, I watched Food Inc., and it really got the wheels in my head turning.  Seeing where most of the meat we buy in grocery stores comes from truly disgusts me, but to be honest I don't know if I could become a full fledged vegetarian.  Instead, I am choosing to be more informed about where our food comes from, and if I'm craving a juicy steak then I'm going to make a conscience effort to buy meat from our Farmer's market which comes from a local farm where the animals are grass fed, healthy and not mass produced.  Label reading has become a new obsession, and if it has HFCS (high fructose corn syrup) in it, I don't buy it.  I have been pretty shocked at all the food out there that has this added.  How unnecessary.

It is time to be more informed about what we put in our bodies, and healthy habits start early.  Ok, I will step down from my soapbox now :)

Salads Rule!