All About the Food!

My project is coming along great! I am beginning to catch back up and am back on track with my tentative schedule. I just had to buckle down more, stray away from the books I love to read as well as the T.V. and use my time much more wisely.

While typing up the recipes I thought a lot about the recipes and what foods or ingredients as I should say, that are used to make these meals. As I have talked about in my proposal and previous blogs, it’s important to see what foods one is putting in their body. So, it all comes down to the food. How was it handled before it got to your plate? Was a bunch of pesticides or chemicals used to keep the bugs away? What preservatives were added to make it keep longer without spoiling? These are all good questions when it comes to controlling what is being put in your body by the meals one is consuming.

A great way to control this is to grow one’s own food if they have the space or materials. I am raised in a farming family, so we have our own garden and harvest a lot of our own meat. We have had the opportunity to see our food grow right before our eyes and be the ones who are handling our food. Our food is more natural and not shot up with a bunch of chemicals that are not beneficial for our bodies.

To me the greatest quality of gardening is getting to see all of the hard work pay off in the end with a beautiful garden that will feed my family. We get to eat fresh vegetables straight from the garden to our table! To me that is so neat! We can work hard, sweating under the sun to keep the pesky weeds from smothering the plants that we are to harvest. This is the same for the meat that my family consumes. We work hard caring for our animals and raising them properly. We get to take care of our food, grow it up, and be the people who handle the food that will be on our dinner table.

When it comes to cooking, it’s all about the food. So be choosey about what one is putting in their body! Take the extra time to read the ingredients and find the best quality food that fits one’s budget because in the end it will be well worth it. Also, I encourage everyone to try to garden and allow one to handle their own food and have the opportunity to grow their food.