Countdown to Baby Chicks

So I had to remove the counter on my blog. Apparently it was causing a redirection of my site. Very frustrating but glad I found out what was causing it. I went to the help section and found out that it has been happening to a lot of blog sites. Oh well, I still have a calendar on my page which is great because Chloe reposessed my wall calendar. I will have to get a new one.
Baby Chicks arrive on the 31st of March.
Yesterday I did quite a lot but don't feel too bad for it. I am hoping that as the sun rises earlier and earlier I won't have any trouble getting up at the crack of dawn to let my chickens out of their coop. It helps to have the sun shining right on my bed in the mornings but I may have to set an alarm. I can't bear to think of them killing each other because they can't get out into the fresh air.
Back to the Greener Diet,
Day 12 in the Greener Diet.....

30 Days to a Greener Diet - Day 12

Pity the beleaguered stick 'o butter.

Remember when the diet powers that be convinced us that trans-fat-laden margarine was a miracle food, a healthier choice than natural old butter that humans happily lived with for hundreds if not thousands of years? Today, even the heart docs say that butter in moderation is better than the engineering marvel known as margarine.

Just don’t go crazy with it. Like anything else, it should be used in moderation, and you should try to buy organic butter if you can. Splurge once or twice on those old-style European butters that are increasingly available in the supermarket. There are no rules, except to enjoy.

See how simple the New Green Cuisine is?

Read more: http://www.thedailygreen.com/green-diet-butter-44013008#ixzz0hJXFr73g

I've been doing that. It is the spread with the least ingredients and all pronouncable. The butter I buy says, Ingredients: pasteurized cream, salt.
How simple is that. I figure that God provided butter for us. How could it be any worse for us than ingredients like: vegetable oil blend, water, buttermilk, salt, soy lecithin, vegetable mono and diglycerides, potassium sorbate, citric acid, vitamin A palmitate, artificial flavor, beta corotene, for color, and it tastes so much better. Cooking with it always creates that, OMG what is in this, it is so delicious, can I get the recipe, kind of reaction.

It was less than a year ago I bought a movie called, "Food, Inc." I watched it together with my husband. We actually watched it several times. We wanted to really understand what was being said. Each time, by the end of the movie, I felt so trapped, helpless, deceived. Awareness can be a good thing, but only if there are answers and options. I told my husband, "we can't just stop eating." One of my daughters informed me that "this is why we pray for our food"

My husband, great man that he is, said, "honey you can't change everything at once."

So while I was doing what I'd always done I began to research my options. I ran across several websites with really useful information including the one used earlier in this article where I'm getting the 30 days to a greener diet from. I discovered that I do have options, lots of them. I began changing one thing at a time.

I am still researching and discovering options. I feel empowered by choices I can make. I am not trying to change other people though. One thing I have learned is that too many people just don't care. If I come across to my friends and family strongly in my opinions in an overbearing way, they become depressed. Not because of the way they are consuming but because it feels to them as though I'm judging them. People don't like that. So when my mother-in-law brings KFC for dinner, I pray and eat. But when my husband was bringing it home several nights a week because he didn't want it to go to waste, it was surplus from the local fast food place, I cried. I said that it makes me feel that everything I'm striving for with the "whole healthy, respected food thing was for nothing. He stopped bringing it home.