I'm Going to be a Nutritarian by the Time I'm Done!

Dr. Joel Fuhrman uses the term Nutritarian.

"A Nutritarian diet is guided by nutritional quality."  You have got to check out the Nutritarian food pyramid.  Go to: http://www.drfuhrman.com/library/what-is-a-nutritarian-diet.aspx.  

In the book, Eat For Health, he states that the standard American Diet (SAD) is what is causing many diseases facing Americans today.  He gave the acronym of SAD!  Ha! I love it!

Now this sounds like what I want to be. I am a Nutritarian! 

Last night I needed salsa to go with dinner, but did not want to take the time to make it.  We ran to the store and I grabbed the made-in-store salsa.  It’s fresh right!  My 6-year old daughter says, “Um, Mom, this is in a container and we are not buying food in a container anymore, remember.”  This was great and not so great all at the same time!  I am glad she is on board with this, but I will be held accountable too.  At this point we decided to look at the ingredients.  Sure enough, everything was fresh veggies except they used bottled lemon juice which had an additive!  “Rats!” I thought, “Now I have to make it.”  My daughter said, “Mom, you should just make it with these veggies” as she pointed to all the fresh veggies in front of us.  And that is just what we did.

Tonight I am making homemade whole wheat flat-bread.  I made some last month and it was so easy!  I plan on making my husband and I veggie sandwiches on them.  Yum!  Now if I can just figure out how to make a good hummus.  I tried last night and well… I am going to need to try again.  Maybe this time I will follow a recipe.  

Last months flat-bread.
They are puffy because they are full of air...makes a perfect pocket for my veggies!

Oh, if you want the recipe for the flat-bread, I would be happy to share, just make a comment here on my blog to let me know!