Haha, I LOVE cookbooks and I collect them, which drives my poor hubby Insane. ;) ANYways, I just found this ahhhhmazing cookbook that you guys should absolutely check out! It is called Nourishing Traditions and it basically turns all American food ways on their head, did I say that right? Lol! But it really makes sense to. I have been thinking about how everyone was so healthy before all the big companies came along and revolutionized our way of eating. Even before I got into this book, and this kind of thinking has been slowly trickling into the over-processed food ways too. The think about this book is that it actually puts research behind it all and is actually more extreme than extreme American thinking, I think. :) Has anyone else checked it out? What do you think if you have?
You can look up the man who inspired it too. Weston A. Price, I think he is dead now. But he was doing his research back in the 40's, I believe, checking out "untouched" cultures and how healthy they were compared to Americans. The site is westonaprice.org, it is really cool too.

I love cookbooks, so I will have to check it out.

This sounds interesting!! In my vegetarian days I did a lot of research on our over-processed diets. I need to go back to veg, I think about it. But yes fast food is especially horrible health-wise and environmentally. Everything from mass production of livestock to the artificial flavors and overdose of salt and sugar. It makes your head spin when you think about it. Can't say I live by example, I am busy busy busy so I eat crap on a whim. I'm awful and wonder why I'm so tired all the time. Oh and smoking is horrible.

I'm making it a goal this summer to hit up the farmers market and get some homegrown veggies, eat better and try my hardest to avoid the FF joints that tempt me with their oh-so-bad but oh-so-good stuff.

So to add to your thought buying food grown locally (meat or plant) is great for your local economy, cuts down on carbon and is all around better for you. Damn I miss the Amish.

This is what I try to point out to the girls I know lamenting their weight while eating a Whopper...well what do you think is going to happen?

There was a time I was actually very very poor and I just ate food from our garden or asparagus we cut off the side of the road...all we really bought at the store was pasta and occasionally a chicken breast or something. And of course all I had was water to drink. I was miserable because I was so poor but at the same time I see a big difference in the way I feel now that I can eat out whenever I want.

Ohh goodness! I know what you are talking about! I had a lovely job as an insurance agent then got laid off. So I went from eating out all the time to making my own food from scratch. I went from pleasantly plump to looking good baby, lol. Not that I became super skinny, but you could def. tell the difference.

I have always loved eating healthy. And the act of helping out the local economy and not the big, nasty, monster corporations is awesome!! I have actually started getting involved in politics to help stop all the crap they are continually trying to push through!

whenever i'm looking to make something i haven't tried my hand at before foodtv.com always comes to the rescue, i have yet to mess up one of their recipes :)