{"id":106,"date":"2008-02-20T13:03:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-20T13:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.buildingcathedrals.com\/2008\/02\/20\/getting-real-about-food\/"},"modified":"2008-02-20T13:03:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-20T13:03:00","slug":"getting-real-about-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/buildingcathedrals\/2008\/02\/getting-real-about-food\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting Real About Food"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>These conversations about food are challenging; feeding a growing family is a big part of a mother\u2019s job, and picky eaters, dietary restrictions, and environmental concerns make decisions seem so complicated!<\/p>\n<p>In this month\u2019s Domino magazine there was a woman who tried to eat locally for a month and wrote about the fact that it was hard and expensive but also delcious and satisfying.  In O! Magazine, there was a woman who tried to \u201cdo everything right\u201d for a month \u2014 exercise, eat right, floss, wear sunscreen.  She also found it hard and time consuming, but did find some new habits that were easy to maintain.<\/p>\n<p>I have recently been eliminating all simple carbs for health reasons and it has been an intense experience, but I have learned alot, too, and now that I am working carbs back in I will continue to eat Fage plain yogurt for lunch and a grapefruit instead of orange juice in the morning, among other small changes. <\/p>\n<p>My friend K has been listening to our conversations so far, and she asks: what are people really eating?  K proposes that we keep track of what we eat\/serve our kids for 5 days and then post it, and I do think we could all get some good ideas from one another.  This is a call for honesty, so I will begin by saying that yesterday my children had Chex for dinner. <\/p>\n<p>Are you game?  No recipes needed, just a simple list, to be posted next week?<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These conversations about food are challenging; feeding a growing family is a big part of a mother\u2019s job, and picky eaters, dietary restrictions, and environmental concerns make decisions seem so complicated! 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