Its time for a wake up call.

So for those of you who dont know we just finished moving to a new house/ new neighborhood just over a week ago. This is our 4th place in 4.5 years of marriage and its Bryson's 3rd home already, to put it lightly Im over moving, so OVER moving. This time though I love our house we have a yard, its all one level, its been renovated, Im thrilled with it and so is Bryson. Here is the BUT, Im a good 30 minutes away from a decent grocery store. This might sound ridiculous to you so hear me out. Ive been going to sprouts which is 10 mins from my new place its ok it has some of the things I buy but the organic section is small and meat options are very very limited. Albertsons is literally 2 mins from my house, so off I went. It was a bit of a deer in headlights moment, I walked aimlessly around the produce section searching for the word organic, I finally asked a man unpacking limes and he said " oh yes mam right over there" to which I turned and saw half a wall with maybe 5 options of fruit and vegetables that were all on the verge of rotting. I managed to pick out 5 yams, a bag of carrots, and a cucumber. I walked to the meat department and just stared at all the pre packaged meat, I stopped a employee and asked "where is the organic meat?" he replied " ummmm I dont think we have that" he then checked with the butcher and Nope not one single organic piece of meat in that HUGE grocery store. I went to egg isle NOPE not one carton of organic eggs. So I checked out with 5 yams, a bag of carrots, 1 cucumber and 1 beach ball. I left feeling so so sad for this country so sad for my son, how is it that in the hugest grocery store I have no options to eat clean, healthy food? how is this possible? How did we let this happen? I so badly wanted to walk back in there and ask people if they really knew what they were buying, if they really knew what they were feeding their families. You see if you knowingly want to eat inhumanely raised meat, injected with antibiotics, washed in ammonia and fed GMO feed that rots in their stomachs because they are not meant to eat feed, then hey all the power to you. if youd like to then wash it down with GMO and preservative filled juice then thats your choice. But dont you think we should have the choice to opt out? and there should be another option? I mean HELLO this is the United States of America after all.

 You know how packets of cigarettes have pictures of lung cancer, and are covered in warning labels because well we all know smoking is bad for us right? since we know that we are saying "hey here are the risks do with them what you like, this is a free country so if you knowingly want to cause harm to your body then you have the option to do so, but we have done our part in warning you about it and we dont allow it around people who choose not to smoke". So why isnt this the same for our food? I mean how about we place a picture on all our meat, dairy, eggs of the animal in its living arrangements and label all potential health risks from consuming that product and give more than one option of things to consume. Then if you dont want to eat something that is banned in other countries and knowingly causes cancer, obesity, food allergies, diabetes etc then you dont have to, and if you do want to eat it then go nuts. 

Because we all know you dont get lung cancer from smoking one cigarette, just like you dont become obese by eating at mcdonalds once. Its the everyday thing that causes these problems and not having options and forcing this disgusting food into our homes is not right. I shouldnt be forced to drive 30 minutes to buy groceries that I feel comfortable feeding to my family. Nor should someone be forced to buy groceries that they have NO CLUE what they are, that are labeled so poorly with words like "all natural" and "cage free" that are a bunch of malarky.  

You know that the US has the most obese people in the world? We are the 7th highest cancer rate worldwide. 1/54 children have some form of autism, 1/10 people have diabetes, food allergies are at all time high. We spend BILLIONS!! BILLIONS!! 220 billion dollars alone on diabetes.  When are we going to stop and ask ourselves what we are doing? When are we going to stop being so ignorant in thinking our government has our best interest? When are we going to catch up to other countries and start banning things that knowingly are harmful to our bodies and our country? WHEN? WHEN? Because not having options in the "greatest country in the world" is not acceptable and its time we wake up and start protecting our health. 

Nite nite friends

P.s I thought I'd share with you my dinner luckily I had some organic bacon and chicken sausage and squash in my fridge and some tomatoes from my garden.

Yams hash with cucumber, carrot, tomato salad

1. Fry bacon and set aside ( I use organic, nitrate free bacon)

2. sauté yams and squash in bacon grease (remember fat is good for you)

3. cut up sausage and bacon and add to yam mixture 

4. Enjoy :) 

p.s this is great for leftovers throw it in with some eggs in the morning and you have breakfast

Salad: 

1. cut up cucumber, carrots and tomatoes

2. Toss with sea salt, apple cider vinegar and avocado oil

3. Enjoy :)