Day 181- Real Food Month

July is going to be Real Food Month at our house. This means:

Eating plenty of foods in their natural form

-veggies

-fruits

-meats

-nuts

-seeds

-dairy products

Eating homemade foods with whole ingredients

Eating store bought foods with less than 5 ingredients

This means NOT eating foods with:

Preservatives

Coloring

Highly processed oils

Added sugar (aside from honey or maple syrup)

Fillers

In addition, I am planning to leave out caffeine and alcohol. 

You can find my original inspiration for Real Food month at 100daysofrealfood.com. 

Our family did this challenge in January of 2012. It greatly changed our eating habits. I'm happy to say that I had much less food to clear out this time around and that the biggest challenge in all this is finding snacks and quick foods that we can eat when we don't have time to sit down and prepare scrambled eggs for breakfast or make guacamole for a snack. 

Things I'm hoping to gain:

Lose a little weight

Increase energy

Lower body fat percentage

Find snacks that we enjoy and are healthy

Increase Caleb's exposure to different types of food

Make healthy food decisions for our family while the kids are young