About a month ago, an on-line friend of mine started talking about changing the way her family ate. It was very interesting to me and I followed all that she posted about making this BIG change and the benifits her family was seeing! I was really interested in adopting some of her ideas into my family, but didn't want to push anything on my wonderful husband that he didn't really want. SO, I prayed about it. I prayed that God would lead open the doors to changing our eating habits if it is what he wanted for us!

Today, my husband and I were trying out some new exercises that we had found in a new book we had ordered. After a few minutes, he looked at me and said "This may sound REALLY strange and you may laugh at it, but what would you think if our family started slowly moving towards a vegitarian diet?" Then he also mentioned eating only natural sugars and cutting out the processed foods. I was so excited, this is truly an answer to prayer!

The really awesome thing is that we both have the exact same reasons behind the changes. We aren't doing it because we don't want to eat animals...we are doing it for our health! So many of the meats today have the possibility of having disease in them. We live in a society that eats way too much sugar and processed foods. My husbands family has a LONG history of heart problems. If we teach our daughters to eat well now, they will have a healthier life style when they are older and might not have the problems that the rest of the family does. We will teach them to be careful and go to the doctor because we know some of it isn't what you eat and just family genes, but anything to help is worth it!

We have decided that Saturday will be our splurge day and we will keep it as pizza and treat day where we drink a soda with dinner and eat ice cream or a candy bar afterwards, but other than that we are cutting out all the extra sugar that isn't natural from fruits and whatnot. We will still eat meat on occassions, but we are going to begin to learn to cook meals that do not use meats, but other forms of protein. We will continue to eat dairy products though. Anyway, we have LOT to learn and a lot of reading, but dear husband and I made a big decision today to change our lifestyle! If anyone knows any website or blogs that would give us some good information, we are looking for anything we can find!