7.01.2013

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
 

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