WHY GET REAL?
We believe that the best thing for you and your family is a whole food, real food lifestyle. We realize that life has plenty of demands of its own and our desire is to inform as many people as possible how food effects each and every one of us, and then to provide REAL realistic affordable ways to make changes.
Our goal is small steps to REAL changes. Lifestyle changes ... not diets that come and go. In simple words the goal is WHOLE FOODS, REAL FOODS.
We get it, we at The Grocery Girl are working mothers who have active kids and lifestyles that don’t allow us to wear aprons and prepare gourmet meals. We are also REAL FOOD advocates who know first hand that we can't just ignore nutrition and not expect consequences.
REAL FOOD?
What does this mean? A whole food diet is a diet that is made up of macro and micronutrients found in their most complete and unprocessed forms. Macro -nutrients are those that are needed in the largest quantity, while micro nutrients are absolutely essential to health and well being they are needed in a smaller quantity.
Macro Nutrients include: Proteins, Carbohydrates, Fats, and most important Water
Micro Nutrients include Vitamins and Mineral- these are needed in small amounts but are absolutely crucial to wellbeing as well as proper metabolism.
There are several contributing factors that effect ones ability to properly consume and absorb these vital nutrients, for now we just need to know they are absolutely necessary.
The ultimate goal of this process is to incorporate healthy REAL FOOD and LIFESTYLE choices into you and your families everyday life that will be lasting and produce healthier individuals.
What do you mean I’m not eating real foods?
Three years ago I (Amy Yates, NTP) found myself in Austin, Texas at my first Nutritional Therapy Conference. I considered myself to be healthy fit individual and truly believed that I was feeding my family better than most.
Little did I know that the next year, over the course of my schooling, I would have my eyes opened to the reality of the food epidemic that our culture has fallen into. It's has been a slow decline that has gradually allowed all kinds of processing, chemical additives, poor fats and refined sugars into all of our foods. Things that where once cooked in our grandmother and great-grandmother kitchens have been replaced with similar but not equal duplicates. Compare the two lists of ingredients for chicken soup to help you understand.
Store Bought Chicken Soup
Chicken Stock, Rice, Chicken Meat, Carrots, Modified Food Starch, Chicken Fat, Salt, Monosodium glutamate, Celery, Water, Dehydrated mechanically separated chicken, Flavoring, Beat-carotene, Sodium phosphate, Soy protein, Celery extract, Onion extract, Dehydrated chicken, Garlic extract
Home-Made Chicken Soup
Whole Organic Chicken, Water, Himilayian Sea Salt, Black Pepper, Carrots, Celery, Bay Leaf
This is a simple example of the things hiding in our “HEALTHY CHOICE” foods, that don’t have to be there. REAL FOOD is simply real food. Grown traditionally, prepared simply, and fresh.
Our culture is so full of trends especially when it comes to eating, but we need an answer that will not only change our lives but last.
The solution is simple!
We need REAL FOODS ... WHOLE FOODS, that work for our individual bodies. We need meal plans that don't expect us to spend hours in the kitchen but that still work for our lives. We need a plan that is simple, complete, and achievable. Contact us to set up an individualized plan, or purchase one of our seasonal meal plans to help you and your family start your REAL, WHOLE FOODS lifestyle!