I'm in the middle of reading Omnivore's Delimma, which Sean read and then gave to me. It really is a wonderful book, but it made me realize how much high frutose corn syrup was in the stuff I was feeding Stephen, mainly granola bars. Granola bars are a great convenience food for us. This evening I made granola bars, although shaped by a muffin pan so as to make them much easier to get out. They were really quite easy and turned out quite well. I could add what I wanted to them, so I added dried fruit so as to up the nutritional value. We'll see if he'll eat them. I will. As a whole, Sean and I eat very healthy...I cook most of our meals and I make Sean lunch etc. We eat whole grains and the like, but we didn't acknowledge how much artificial stuff is in the stuff we do eat, like artificial sweetners. Sean is also on a kick to try to buy a side of beef from a Texas cattleman who grass feeds cattle--more natural as well as economical.
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Yummmmm. Looks good. Recipe please? That sounds like a good book too. Does it talk about being green too? Cows are HUGE methane producers and methane is worse for global warming than CO2. Some say eating meat is worse than driving a truck in terms of its environmental effects.
Yes! Recipe seconded!
You know the cattle farm our family owned and operated in the 1970's was what is now an organic cattle farm. They were grass fed and free range over a large spread of land. But the shift to corporate cattle farms in the 80's that may have made family owned farms like ours too difficult to maintain is a little bit of why I stopped eating beef. I might consider an exception for organics, grass-fed beef.
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