12 best & Worst

Twelve "worst" and "best" non-organic produce items

If you'd like to keep pesticides and their residues off of your dinner plate, your best bet is a diet based on organic foods. Of
course, that's easier said than done if you live in an area where organic food is hard to find or prohibitively expensive. In that
case, what's a concerned consumer to do? Well, you could serve antidotes for dessert... but we think this is better: a list of
the 12 least contaminated types of produce published by the Environmental Working Group.

According to the Environmental Working Group, when it comes
to conventionally-grown produce, these are the 12 cleanest
kinds you can buy:

Twelve "cleanest non-organic foods"

• Asparagus • Avocados • Bananas • Broccoli • Cauliflower • Corn (sweet) AVOID: Probably Genetically Modified • Kiwi • Mangos • Onions • Papaya • Pineapples • Peas (sweet)

We don't recommend basing your diet solely on this list, but it's a
good healthy start towards meals that won't kill your appetite.
Since the EWG reports that more than half of our total dietary
risk from pesticides comes from just 12 foods:

Tweleve "RISKIEST foods

• Apples • Bell Peppers • Celery • Cherries • Imported Grapes • Nectarines • Peaches • Pears • Potatoes • Red Raspberries • Spinach • Strawberries

avoiding these foods for the most part, substituting from the clean list above, and eating organic and/or homegrown produce whenever possible can substantially cut down on your exposure to pesticides. When choosing foods from the above list, however, keep in mind that corn and sweet potatoes are among
those foods most likely to have been genetically modified. When
it comes to these two types of produce, consumers concerned
about GM foods as well will definitely want to seek out organic
alternatives to assure themselves of further safety.

 

credit to: http://www.living-foods.com/articles/twelvelist.html

employee mother friend daughter and more

I am so happy to be working. It has been a while since I have been able or willing to post.  The girls all started school September and then I started my new job the first week of October.  I can hardly express in type how rewarding and how hard it is to be a working mom.

I love sales so thats what I am doing.

I love my children so I am mommy-ing too.

I still have to find time for friends and family which I thoroughly enjoy.

This is a problem when one considers I require a minimum 8 hours sleep EVERY night to function in a non abusive way towards others.

This leaves 16 hours left in the day to do it all.  8 of which are WORKING so that leaves 8 to get kids ready in the morning and pick them up at night and care for them at night.....well unless you take out commuting that takes away another 1 at least 30 minutes in the am and 30 in the pm.... that leaves 7 but the kids go to bed at 8pm so really you have only a couple hours after work before bed to do IT ALL....Get up at 6am make coffee get kids fed and take them to school.  Go to work at 8-9 am start the day....watch phone for any calls form various schools to be ready for emergencies and hope your boss has kids so he/she will have some understanding of such situations....work work work......go pick up kids....get home start homeowkr...make dinner.....bath them, clip nails, brush hair, brush teeth, floss...read to little ones...have sex go to sleep.

Notice there is NO time for reading or tv for the mom......oh and most days I forget to do one load of laundry so o Sundays I have 12 loads.

Being a stay at home mom was the best and I will forever be grateful to my awesome husband the only man who supported that for me.  He is a super worker, super dad and super husband. NO woman can be a some what sane stay at home mother if her husband doesn't understand the sheer insanity of not getting paid, never having completed a job (cleaning, feeding kids, dishes and laundry are never completed therefor you never really feel like you have accomplished anything real) and never getting more than 5 minute intervals to yourself.



AM I a bit frazzled?  Yes.  AM I HAPPY?  Yes.

more to come

Pay Off

I have been forcing my kids after school to eat some fruit before a salts or sweet snack.  It has paid off. They now expect it and DONT WHINE or complain. 3 weeks people thats all it took to instill a new healthy habit. Thanks Lewis - Mussa

What To Eat

During the summer (12 weeks as I have mentioned) wasn't easy and feeding the 4 girls FIVE times a day YES I SAID 5 x's a day....breakfast, snack, lunch, snack, dinner.....UGH


SO I will admit to shopping at at least 2 stores weekly sometimes 3 (all grocery stores I am ANTI Target  and Wallmart for food).

My girls ONLY EAT one type of cheese (with the exception of pizza cheese) Tillamook Special Reserve EXTRA Sharp Cheddar Cheese. Thank you husband. I must say cheese slices, organic corn chips from a bag and sliced fruit is a great lunch or snack and they love it when I cut the cheese into shapes and they build shit on their plate with it.


Next never forget people that BREAKFAST for any meal is GOOD.  I highly recommend any whole grain waffle (frozen) and Trader Joe's all natural syrup is cheapest per ounce and delicious. We recently tried the VANS all natural maple flavored waffles - they have half the sugar of a bowl of regular cereal (6 gram), 3 grams of protein and 6 grams of fiber (in 2 waffles)!

And finally one of the household favorites is my husbands famous Turkey Tacos.  BTW - We don't use everything all natural or organic only when it seems reasonable and fair. We use Jenno Ground Turkey 99% lean, mixed with Taco Bell packaged seasoning (only 1/3 of the package so as not to freak out the kids). We cook that up, fry our own tortillas (white corn) in olive oil and serve it all wth diced tomatoes, lettuce and shredded (YES Tillamook) cheese. Do my kids use the tomatoes and lettuce? No.


That was JUST one day in a day of the Ho House summer meals.


Now what?