We’re going to Matt Family Orchard this week.  I’ve been meaning to for a while now and contacted Rick Matt via email 3 weeks ago about times and general info.  He was kind enough to add me to his weekly mailing list so we’d know what was in season and potentially available.  Unlike a lot of farmers markets that we’ve stopped at, the Matt Family Orchard only carries what is actually grown locally so there will be no bananas with stickers from out of the country or veggies from California.  Can’t wait to go!
The farmer’s market hours are Friday and [...]

Eat more beef, save the planet.
Okay…that’s a very simplistic thought and grand start to this post but the idea is a solid one.  Eating beef IS good for you and the planet but only if the animals are raised right.
If you’ve watched Food, Inc. or read Michael Pollan’s Omnivore’s Dilemma you’ve seen the negative side of cheap meat.  Factory farms are taking nature and systematizing it in such a way that every aspect of the process is ultimately a negative to the planet.  The list of offenses, wrongs and horrors in factory farming is so long and depressing that it [...]

If you train with us at CFChampions you soon could.  This past Friday I (along with Alyx and Mia) drove up to Brenham to visit Yonder Way Farm.  It was easy to find, a beautiful farm and a beautiful day.  It’s what you would expect in the land of Blue Bell ice cream and happy cows.  Yonder Way Farm doesn’t make that claim but their animals looked pretty happy doing what pigs and cows and chickens are supposed to do.  They were all out grazing or foraging or just plain enjoying the sunshine.  I could have pulled up a seat [...]

If you haven’t found Dr. Cordain’s website yet you might want to give it a good looksie.  ThePaleoDiet.com is a fantastic resource for all kinds of health and well-being news.  Its one of my favorite sites to visit and it helps keep me plugged into the point of what we promote.  Simpler eating is better, science does not fix all things and what nature provides trumps what man jacks with.  How’s that for insightful?!
On Cordain’s website you can sign up for a free weekly newsletter that is a veritable ocean of information that is neatly divided up into easy to [...]

I finally found a moment to sit and catch up on my reading and had to laugh at an article in Time magazine’s January 11th edition – Brief History, Fad Diets.  The picture with the article caught my eye because all the food looked good and there wasn’t a bit of bread or a grain in sight.  Awesome!  The picture’s caption, though…”All this, and skinny too The popular Atkins plan allows dieters their fill of meat, dairy and vegetables–just no carbs“…was odd.   The article goes on to encapsulate the efforts of folks trying to control their girth and the [...]

The nutrition seminar was this past weekend and the topic came up, as always, of what to feed the kids.  Our answer is always the same…what you feed your kids is just as or even more important than what you eat.  Now you know that you have to lead from the front and they won’t do what you aren’t doing so expecting them to eat better than you is insanity so I won’t go into the importance of you eating clean but will give you information and maybe some questions to get you thinking about your kids food.
We concern ourselves [...]

Lana told us about Food, Inc. waaaayy back and forever ago.  She went to see it in the limited showing here in Houston.  All raves and great information.  It’s been a little while.
We didn’t make time at the time to see it and instead picked up the various books associated with it…The Omnivores Dilemma and In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan, and Food, Inc. the book.  The movie, while a fantastic and eye opening production, isn’t able to include everything that needs to be said.  What is is is a start for anyone who is interested in their health, [...]

Got my weekly dose of The Paleo Diet Update today and the paragraph about vitamin D deficiency jumped out big.  The info in the Paleo Diet is always an affirmation of what I believe and the info within is timely.  Always.
A conversation with a family member just this past Friday had her mention her low levels of vitamin D so that part of this article popped out to me and I wondered at the prevalence of bone problems within society that we are “fixing” on the back end with pharmaceutical prescriptions rather than on the front end with food prescriptions.
Another [...]

There once were two opposing thoughts in articles…okay, one was a blog post and one was from The Wall Street Journal…regarding food choices in these tight economic times.  Still, the subject matters are the same but from opposing sides.
From the original Wall Street Journal article “Value is what counts to consumers right now,” says Bob Goldin, executive vice president at Technomic. “And, unfortunately, in the minds of many consumers, a lot of these lower-priced options are just not as healthy, but they’re still buying them.”

I like the irony in that bit about value being what counts right now.  Really?  If [...]

Yesterday, Matt grilled pork chops.  They were fantastic and difficult to not snack on all day until they were gone.  So after we got home from the gym I needed to come up with something quick and easy to go with them.  No problem.  Whatever I made would be overshadowed by those pork chops.   Spinach salad?  ehh…no.  I did find the pre-cut and cubed butternut squash at Costco that Anne S. had told me about so that was an option.  Maybe…  Okay.  There’s a recipe on the inside of the lid that looked like it had potential.  Divvied up the [...]