![]() ![]() Three years ago, I wrote a blog post about the formaldehyde in Victoria's Secret bras causing welts and rashes. We buy a lot of this and also keep it at Natural Selections, our retail boutique store in the drink cooler with the natural sodas and coconut water, because adults love it too! (I think it's a great treat/snack combo, and it even has protein! And have you tried it in coffee or tea? Fantastic!)Īnd if you are a TOTAL chocolate-lover, you will want to check out the 100% Pure Body Creme and Cosmetics made with real Chocolate! Solution for our kids lunchbox: Chocolate Almond Milk in single serve packages! (The brand pictured here is Blue Diamond Almond Breeze.) But both cow milks have growth hormones, preservatives, and are pasteurized and homogenized, (which is an unnecessary process that is actually even worse for the human body.) Plus, did you know that some manufacturers bring back the unsold (white) milk from the grocery stores and mix in the chocolate/sugar to preserve it, then re-bottle and sell it as chocolate milk? EIf you want any educational reading (from DOCTORS) on why cow milk is not good for humans, click here, here, here, here, here, or just google. Given a choice of white milk or chocolate milk, most kids choose the chocolate milk, which is also loaded with sugar. The posters of celebrities with cow milk mustaches, the "milk-time", and of course it is THE drink at lunch. and it saved us from another day of fast food! (Which was great because it just so happened that was the day I was taking my oldest daughter to a Justin Bieber concert and I needed the energy to go through with that.)Īt public schools, they REALLY push cow milk. ![]() Anyway, there was a normal size portion left over and we took it on the road trip the next day. except that most people did not know what it was. We did find out which relative made it but never figured out why it wasn't at the family meal table. It was so unexpectedly delicious with walnuts and raisins in it! The next morning, we had to come clean about the fact that whomever had prepared that salad had better not be expecting it to still be in the fridge. We ate almost an entire 16" bowl of it in one sitting. We peered closer at it, and were THRILLED to find that it was KALE!* We stared at it for a millisecond and started devouring it. It had been left abandoned in the extra fridge in the garage (along with random bottles of beer and bottled water). Afterwards, we headed back to our relatives house, and somehow stumbled upon a giant bowl of something dark green. ![]() By the time of the actual event we were craving real, fresh food so badly. On one such event, I traveled with my mom, my four children, and my sister and her son to a family reunion and we mostly subsisted on Subway sandwiches (NOT fresh, I don't care what they say.) and Taco Johns burritos. I remember being asked repeatedly, "Do you eat peanut butter?" by several relatives. Let's just sum it up by saying that means everyone is super nice and it also means that the traditional Midwestern food options at all family events are not congruent with a Vegetarian lifestyle- in fact, the idea of a vegetarian diet was confusing. My entire family is also from the Midwest. (So in my town there is no shortage of good vegetarian and vegan food.) But traveling in a three state vicinity is tricky. Through my 39 years of being a Vegetarian, I have encountered a lot of challenges living in the Midwest, but I am fortunate to live in a tiny town of 9,000 people, that actually has more restaurants per capita than San Fransciso. ![]() I was raised as a Vegetarian from birth by my parents (who actually started the first health food store in Des Moines, Iowa, back in the early 1970's - but that is another story). ![]()
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