I've always been a moderately healthy eater, but over the last few months I have started making a larger effort to eat cleaner and healthier. Part of this was spurred by my favourite jeans being a bit too tight, and partly from teaching high school biology. Teaching prompted me to do a lot more research about what we actually put into our bodies, and how much of an effect exercise and eating right can have! I spend the last 6 weeks teaching the digestive and circulatory systems, and actually did a bit more learning than I thought I would. Most of it was outside the classroom, as I was prompted to learn more about the things I was teaching.
Anyways, this brings me to my Food Blog. I've decided to write and share the foods that I make. I'm learning to adapt recipes swapping apple sauce for sugar, and yogurt for butter. Some things have turned out great...others still need a bit of tweaking! I'm also making an effort to learn about what foods are good, which ones are bad and which ones are occasionally worth the splurge!
I've heard an awful lot about the Paleo diet recently, and although I am intrigued I'm certainly not willing to completely give up peanut butter toast! I sort of feel like it is an extension of the Atkins diet, but I will do some investigating and post my musings. After the (minimal) research that I have done, I feel like no specific food group (such as "grains" or "carbs") should be completely excluded. I'm all for reducing refined sugar and trans fats, but to get rid of carbs would be the end of me!
Although this is meant to be a food blog, I'll likely post some other non-food related things, as I think it all comes back to how our bodies feel! Input = output!
Enjoy!
Anyways, this brings me to my Food Blog. I've decided to write and share the foods that I make. I'm learning to adapt recipes swapping apple sauce for sugar, and yogurt for butter. Some things have turned out great...others still need a bit of tweaking! I'm also making an effort to learn about what foods are good, which ones are bad and which ones are occasionally worth the splurge!
I've heard an awful lot about the Paleo diet recently, and although I am intrigued I'm certainly not willing to completely give up peanut butter toast! I sort of feel like it is an extension of the Atkins diet, but I will do some investigating and post my musings. After the (minimal) research that I have done, I feel like no specific food group (such as "grains" or "carbs") should be completely excluded. I'm all for reducing refined sugar and trans fats, but to get rid of carbs would be the end of me!
Although this is meant to be a food blog, I'll likely post some other non-food related things, as I think it all comes back to how our bodies feel! Input = output!
Enjoy!
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