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Who else would like to discover a Healthy diet that is actually good for you and your community?


MOM, I’m hungry!!!! What’s there to eat? How often do you hear these words? Are you prepared?

There are so many areas of our life that we grudgingly fulfill everyday without any thought, grocery shopping and cooking are two such areas. How many times have you shown up at the grocery store with a vague idea of what you will fix? You choose the ingredients and a few other things and off you go home with no more thought to the food you are using to cook. Cooking and eating can be so much more. What you fix for your family can have an effect that expands past the stove top.

Let us begin with the food itself. Where does the food come from? The very food we use to nourish our lives has a history. What is the history? Where does it come from? How was it harvested? The fruits, vegetables and meats we consume are just energy, like everything else around us. What type of energy are we purchasing? Was it alowd to mature and ripen to its fullest potential or was it picked green and shipped across the United States or across the oceans?

Fruits and vegetable are energy. They absorb more energy from the world around them. The longer they have been picked the more vibrant the energy in these items is. The more life they carry. But once they are severed from their roots their energy tends to fade. If you pick fruits and vegetable and meats from your local farmer’s market you have the unique opportunity to actually meet the people who grew or raised your food. You also guarantee that you reduced your carbon footprint. These farmers live about 1-2 hours from the market, hence “Local” farmer’s market. In talking to the farmers you can decide for yourself, who raised their vegetable with the most love. You can tell by talking to them, asking them about how they raised their vegetables.

Plus when you shop at the farmer’s market you can guarantee that the fruits and vegetable are in season.  Often I have found that the prices are equal or better than the local supermarket.

If you can't go to the supermarket the Austin Round Rock area has a great resource- Greenling.com.  This is a great resource for local Organic fresh food.