Hello pretty Bride to Be.
Here are some thoughts for you that I try to live by.
Eat clean. Eat fresh in season when possible.
Drink enough Water.
No soda. No corn syrup.
Fruit juices are notorious with this.
Welch's Grape juice is ONLY grape juice and not terribly $$$
Corn syrup is everywhere and NOT our friend, for sure.
Honey Honey Honey, honey.
Local honey may even help with allergies
and is a FOOD with minerals/vitamins and everything.
I don't trust the 'sugar free' chemical.
Tastes weird to me and makes me afraid.
Have raw sugar if needed.
I have a spoonful of honey to help medicine go down.
Whole grains like Coleen said, steel cut oats for oatmeal. brown rice, wild rice.
(NO rice-a-roni $$$$ and suspect flavor packet)
Fresh fruits and veg always when available
or Frozen whole plain...No sauce or flavor packets.
Make your own salad dressings, easy easy easy. and good good good.
Flavor your big ol heart out with
Beloved Garlic!
Lots of herbs !
Bulk dried herbs. go online...a lot cheaper than rip off bottles of McCormick or whoever.
Mexican groceries are good source of cheap dried herbs at decent price. Dried Beans too.
Nothing in Cans, No Meals in Boxes, No Bottles. except for Olive oil, tuna, whole tomatoes, hot sauce, capers, more I forget.
I used to have beans in cans but, now not so much.
Don't like the shit they are preserved in that even rinsing doesn't really get that sodium (to me) taste out.
Frozen, fresh or dried beans for me.
Crock-pots for stock and soup to freeze.
Get a juicer, yum yum yum. If you can wait, put a juicer on your Wedding registry gift list !
This is pretty much my kitchen and is really all I know.
I was a happy hippie girl/homesteader.
A simple good and the cheap way to eat healthy
that doesn't take that much more time.
For true !
It will be fun time with your new husband in the kitchen cooking together, shucking beans together, laughing and eating well.
A recipe for a happy marriage....just ask Julia Childs !!!
Now, don't get me wrong.
I do eat junk from time to time.
But, I love fresh and homemade....homemade with LOVE the best.
YUM YUM YUM
and bon appetit,
your friend,
S
