WARNING: this is not a post about a recipe, and may be too involved and personal with possible profanity...read at your own risk

Good Afternoon!

I am still trying new recipes, and experimenting in the kitchen, however, I thought it would be beneficial to also integrate my ideas / relationship with food into my blog as well. I thought it might help this blog become more personal, and allow whoever so chooses to read it on the journey I have embarked on...more on that later...
for this afternoon here is what I have to say, there will be a new recipe update later, and for those of you who have looked into the "RAW/LIVE foods diet", it will be all raw, and all delicious.

Anyways:
The Question:
Does anyone have any idea how much Corn we consume on a daily basis?
The answer:
Probably Not.

Recently, Jeremy and I have started to turn a new leaf, and boy am I glad about that.
I had a slight breakdown after a fierce verbal attack on my body, and how much hate I had harboring for it. Lucky for me Jeremy thinks I'm beautiful...always. Unfortunately in regards to society, I am too fat - this makes me horribly miserable. well anyways, I tend to have an all or nothing personality and after cry-fest 2009 Jeremy and I decided that's it, we're going to push it into high gear, and really start being healthy.
Now, don't get me wrong because We've always been all about healthy eating. We don't have gobs of money between the two of us either, so the things that you'll find us buying in our house are veggies, and fruits, and crackers, Pastas, and bread, and things of sustenance not gluttony.
So, then, why-how, could we still be over-weight. How we could be constantly fighting off ear infections, sinus infections, fatigue, Migraines, etc...
Good Question.

I have been doing extensive research in regards to "the raw food diet" this is to say that food is not cooked above 118 degrees (from my research it tends to range between 110 and 118). The basic point is to eat food as the earth and nature intended us too. I have been looking into this more and more. So far today, I have eaten 80% Raw, and I think that that is a great start. I am attempting to maintain at least 60% Raw, which allows for some cooked food. There are different websites that talk all about Raw eating. One of my favorites is www.welikeitraw.com If anyone else has recently embarked on this journey, or wants to know more about it let me know, I'd be happy to share some other websites and blogs with you.


Okay, so - back to corn. which would mean back to processed foods. which would mean, eating food that we have as a society conditioned our bodies to accept despite their foul responses to it. Have you ever noticed that High Fructose Corn Syrup, or Corn Syrup in some form or another is in almost everything. This includes bread, its almost impossible to find bread without it!
Whats worst about all this is that truly nutritionally, Corn does not really have anything that benefits our bodies in any way. Its no wonder we suffer illness, and headaches, and body aches.
our bodies detest our choice in processed foods, with chemicals we can't understand or pronounce. Let me tell you, our earth doesn't much appreciate it either.

So then anyways, what a difficult entry to follow...

Back to me and Jeremy. Turning over a new leaf, it involves a waking early, and walking every morning before departing for work, it involves visits to the market three to four times a week to have the freshest most ripe delicious fruits and veggies. In Rochester there is a market almost every day we can attend, and we are, rain or shine. We are acknowledging the strain in our enlarged stomachs and their yearning for unnecessary foods. We are getting out of the house, and watching less TV visiting coffee shops, working on Art projects, walking everywhere we can, eating breakfast every morning, enjoying smoothies full of raw organic fruits, experimenting with new recipes that are healthy, amongst other things. We are working on this, and working towards this.

I think it is sad that our society has incorporated eating such unhealthy choices, not only that, but eating them faster, and more "on the go."
I put in some time working at Dunkin' Donuts - more on that later.

anyways, that's all for now. Look up raw and live food diets, read about it, learn about it, and then think about how we are the only mammal to enjoy another mammal's milk.


until next time!