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Wednesday, September 21, 2011

The Beginning of the Journey

We have been on a journey the past few years with making food at home that are processed foods found in the stores. We discovered that these processed foods contained additives, chemicals, and preservatives that were affecting our health, most particular our digestive and intestinal health.

Knowing that these non-natural ingredients in processed foods were causing us issues in the lower gut in particular, we asked ourselves, "what other problems are they causing?" Could these additives, preservatives, and chemicals be causing any long term health problems? Could they lead to something WAY more serious? At the very least, we know that our bodies are just not made to digest and deal with chemicals, so it can’t be doing our bodies any good....

As we discovered a processed food that caused us problems, we started looking if there was a way to make this same food at home. And so far, every one of these foods can be made at home!

I can’t believe how easy it is to make these foods and affordable too. Foods like salad dressings, cream cheese, and sweet Thai chilli sauce for example. Did you know that you can corn your own beef? Even the time commitment to make these foods at home is very little, usually just a few minutes. That is certainly worth considering!

We know someone who has constant intestinal issues and we believe that the damage has been done over the years from the chemicals in processed foods. For her, it is probably too late. We hope it isn’t too late for us, nor for any of you.
Join us on our journey of discovering how to make these "convenience" foods at home. We’ll share what processed foods have caused us grief; what additives, chemicals or preservatives are in them; our research on what these non-natural ingredients can cause; and recipes on how to make these same foods at home. We hope you’ll share your recipes too.