We cook so much at home now. We try to buy what we can afford when it comes to healthy foods. We buy organic when possible. One grocery buggy is usually not more than half full for a weeks worth of food and it costs more than when I had an overflowing buggy. Is this easy? NO!!! Our groceries run out by Wednesday and we usually shop on Fridays. Sigh....it's not easy but it is doable.
Why is my buggy half full? One of my best friends and I were talking about this the other day. You know what makes the buggy full? All the boxes that processed foods come in. Interesting. It makes you think you have lots of food but in reality you have lots of boxes and little nutritional value. Fruits take up much less space. The challenging part is that they cost more and go faster once I get them home.
So onto my fears while traveling. We don't travel too much so I am used to having my certain foods at home that we eat on a regular rotation. So, instead of enjoying the food we eat at restaurants while traveling, all I can do is think of what disgusting things I'm putting into my body. We don't really have funds to eat at health food places all the time. What's a girl to do?
I packed a few peanut butter and jelly sandwiches but the lure of fast food still sucks my family in big time. I wish they could be as grossed out as I am with it but one step at a time. We've pretty much banned McDonald's and Taco Bell but I know there are other icky..icky places that we probably will stop at on our travels...
I did pack lots of healthy snacks and hopefully the kiddos will be satisfied with apples and bananas over Slim Jim's and Little Debbie's.
The other things that is scary is not having control over the foods we will eating while away. Are you sensing my anxiety? It's not that it will be awful. I know it will be really yummy, tasting food. The kind I grew up eating. It's just that I've changed so much in the way I eat and it's easier to do that when you are at home versus a guest in someone's home even if it is your sweet, sweet family!!!
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