Great News! You can shop healthy, and on a budget!
I just bought a ridiculous amount of groceries, including 5.50$ organic milk, raspberries, 2lbs of spring mix lettuce (which is a gigantic amount considering its loose leaf-huge bucket), 4 grapefruit, eggs, bread,and a few bags full of groceries, all healthy, for only 30$. I KNOW RIGHT?! Ok, maybe you have to be here and see it, but trust me, it's pretty awesome.
If you havn't heard, Trevor and I are on a quest to be healthy. Although I'm more strict about what I eat, we both have been making an effort to eat healthy, which for us means more veggies and fruit, healthy protiens, and fiber. Trev is amazing at drinking water, I on the other hand...am working on it. I have had some questions about my meat eating, and for those, I'll clarify a bit. I am not a vegetarian, but I will only eat meat that I am aware of how it was treated both before, and after killing. Many many slaughter houses treat animals cruelly, and contaminate their product after killing. I personally don't want to put anything in my body from these companies after reading first hand accounts from people who have worked in commercial slaughter houses. It's awful, and not nearly as healthy as meat you can get from other sources (such as organic or local farmers) or if you hunt, then from your own labor. It's kinda the same with milk, now Trevor and I drink organic milk. It's expensive, but the taste is absolutely delicious and fresh. I don't think that drinking milk from commercial brands where the food being fed to the cows is probably not healthy and/or covered in pesticides and ferilizers, what the cow eats translates into the milk and also dont treat the cows humanely, and therefore the milk is lower quality. Anyways, thats my spiel, don't have to agree, but that's me.
Also, Trev and I have signed up, and now regularly attend a YMCA gym near our house. I am training to do a half marathon next summer, and Trev is working out and gaining muscle. I have started to see the differences in our bodies, and I'm happy that we can both prioritize being healthy (and hey, who doesn't want to look healthy and attractive?). For me, it helps to keep motivated when I think that my body is not my own, but it's a body that God blessed me with, and that I want honor Him with. I think that when we eat healthy, and work out, it honors God, and shows that we are good caretakers to the body He has given us.
There are a lot of reasons to be healthy, and right now I'm feeling the effects from our efforts and am really excited to see how it continues to effect us. Well, that's my 2 cents for today, everybody stay warm and safe with the coming snow!
