We spend most of our food dollars on our winter CSA (community supported agriculture), farmers market trips and supplementing it with trips to Whole Foods, Wegman's organic section or Trader Joe's. We changed to cooking our own organic meats and vegtables. Soaking our beans and grains. Making our own broths. No more pre-cooked anything and minimal eating out.
Before all this we actually starting doing a vegetarian diet because knew we needed a change. It wasn't for us. There has to be something better we thought. We were made to eat meats along with all the other foods. That's when we found the Nourishing Traditions cookbook and their train of thought. It made perfect sense to us! Eat the meat, the whole eggs, the whole foods, but of the highest quality and prepared right.
The biggest thing we notice? We actually eat less. The food is of such a higher quality, with good fats, we don't need as much. And we love it. So full of taste! We now walk into the local Harris Teeter, where we use to purchase our food, and realize we wouldn't eat most of the items. We come out with very little.
Our biggest challenge you ask? Planning ahead. We are both so bad at that. It takes more planning and more time in the kitchen. I feel, I mean both of us feel, like we are in the kitchen so much more each day. Whew. I so do not like to cook. But it is worth it. For our kids health and ours!