My husband is seriously teetering on the border of becoming a whole foods person! We are far from traditional eaters. I do what I can and I have often felt like he is holding us back from getting to the next level because he still gets some packaged products, doesn't eat regularly and really enjoys eating out especially certain fast food places. I give in because it's easy, I have 2 littles ones and I'm pregnant so I'm tired a lot.
Its just a thing where you know, I read a lot of real food blogs and they all have partners that are way into it too. And I know if I had the push from my husband to do the right thing all the time I would find the energy or perhaps even have simpler ways for him to help. Right now i do the bare minimum, get grass fed beef, organic butter, whole milk (not raw but the best we can get), make yogurt, soak grains and legumes, and make and use stock. But I still have frozen pizzas in the freezer you know. He still buys canned soups even though i have homemade in the freezer! He just likes the taste better.
Well, he's recently gotten into p90x and has been looking into low fat high protein. I've talked him out of low fat thankfully but he's still willing to use a lot of prepackaged foods. That is until this whole taco bell thing! Did you hear about it? They got sued for calling their beef product ground beef. They had to change it to seasoned beef and won't be honest about how much actual beef is in there. The FDA says you have to use like 70% or so to call it 'ground' beef, not sure what the regulations are on seasoned! Lol
So that got him thinking, what is really in this crap I eat?!? He told me tonight he's almost scared to eat anything we didn't cook ourselves! Almost, but he's getting there. Then he looked at some tv dinners he has in the freezer and their ingredients and just couldn't believe it.
Forget the msg and the tvp and the gmo, he could care less what it is in there all he knows is he doesn't know what it is and he doesn't like that!
I'm just so excited. I'm not sure how to grab this bull by the horns. I know he thinks I go overboard and I don't want to push him away with too much but I'd like to really get him into eating whole foods. Real foods. Foods that don't come with ingredients! And he's so close but we are talking a lifetime of programming that needs to be undone.
But i had to share with y'all my excitement. Sorry for going on so long, I just knew most of you would understand how hard this can be when you're doing it basically on your own and your partner still wants to stop at whataburger. Though to be fair, I fall in to the trap as well, but like I said it would be easier not to if he said no.
And if anyone has any suggestions on things I can do or say to gently nudge him all the way, I'd love it! Especially articles online he could read.
Its just a thing where you know, I read a lot of real food blogs and they all have partners that are way into it too. And I know if I had the push from my husband to do the right thing all the time I would find the energy or perhaps even have simpler ways for him to help. Right now i do the bare minimum, get grass fed beef, organic butter, whole milk (not raw but the best we can get), make yogurt, soak grains and legumes, and make and use stock. But I still have frozen pizzas in the freezer you know. He still buys canned soups even though i have homemade in the freezer! He just likes the taste better.
Well, he's recently gotten into p90x and has been looking into low fat high protein. I've talked him out of low fat thankfully but he's still willing to use a lot of prepackaged foods. That is until this whole taco bell thing! Did you hear about it? They got sued for calling their beef product ground beef. They had to change it to seasoned beef and won't be honest about how much actual beef is in there. The FDA says you have to use like 70% or so to call it 'ground' beef, not sure what the regulations are on seasoned! Lol
So that got him thinking, what is really in this crap I eat?!? He told me tonight he's almost scared to eat anything we didn't cook ourselves! Almost, but he's getting there. Then he looked at some tv dinners he has in the freezer and their ingredients and just couldn't believe it.
Forget the msg and the tvp and the gmo, he could care less what it is in there all he knows is he doesn't know what it is and he doesn't like that!
I'm just so excited. I'm not sure how to grab this bull by the horns. I know he thinks I go overboard and I don't want to push him away with too much but I'd like to really get him into eating whole foods. Real foods. Foods that don't come with ingredients! And he's so close but we are talking a lifetime of programming that needs to be undone.
But i had to share with y'all my excitement. Sorry for going on so long, I just knew most of you would understand how hard this can be when you're doing it basically on your own and your partner still wants to stop at whataburger. Though to be fair, I fall in to the trap as well, but like I said it would be easier not to if he said no.
And if anyone has any suggestions on things I can do or say to gently nudge him all the way, I'd love it! Especially articles online he could read.
