Eating Philosophy
I am a flexitarian who believes in eating good whole foods.
I stay away from most processed foods with the exception of my brown rice pastas, wraps, and bread. I’m gluten intolerant so that keeps me in check from eating the entire bread basket at restaurants. I do make my husband hold a piece of bread up for me to smell though. Yes, I actually do that.
I LOVE cheese/cow’s milk/yogurt, BUT it does NOT love me back. I’ll have cheese once in a while (every 2 months?), but trust me, I pay for it for a couple of days. And so does my poor husband who has to be around me. hehe
I eat meat once or twice a week. The hubs and I try to only purchase free range organic meats. The hubs hunts, and we honor that life that was sacrificed for us to eat. I went vegan for some of last year, and realized that although I think it is awful to eat factory farmed animals, I don’t find any harm in eating free range animals. You may be different. This is just how I feel.
We sometimes get our eggs from a friend who raises chickens in his backyard, and we got our turkey from another friend last year who raises about 20 in his backyard. We are all about the local produce and meats. Plus, in most cases, it saves you lot’s of money! And, it tastes a heck of a lot better than something that traveled 2,000 miles to my grocery store.
As I said before, we like to support our local farmers as well.
We are going to garden a lot this coming year with the help of Hometown Seeds. I will keep you updated on all that good stuff once it gets warmer!!
I LOVE to bake, and if I had to choose just one dessert to have for the rest of my life, it would be peanut butter chocolate chip cookies made with full fat and sugar. Life is too short to eat low-fat fake sugar store bought cookies.
Sweets are definitely my Kryptonite, and I have to be mindful of how much sugar I consume since I have the tendency to go overboard. I’m hypoglycemic, and when I don’t eat right (ie. eat a million cookies), I feel light headed, shaky, and bitchy. I’ve even fainted twice because of it.
I like good wine, but have been known to drink good cheap wine as well. Heh. During the racing season, however, alcohol is somewhat limited. This is not necessarily because I’m afraid of the weight gain during racing season b/c of alcohol, but because I’m a cheap date. I have a hangover if I have two glasses of wine. It is sad. Would you want to get up and run x amount of miles with a hangover? I didn’t think so.
So in essence, I try to cover the rainbow in a day that is as local as I can get it…
And eat a few cookies before bed a few times a week. 
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Hi! This is so inspiring!
I also avoid glutenous grains, and I’m intorelant to dairy products, but I eat meat and fish every day, but I also enjoy a wide range of fresh produce. And I really like wine, but like you, I unfortunately get drunk easily.
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LOVE this.
I think we are twins
We might have been separated at birth!
I just came across your blog after following Oh She Glows for a few months and noticed you on her Twitter. I was just reading your eating philosophy… you sound a little Paleo to me
No grains, no dairy, no sugar or processed foods. Organic free range meats and wild fish! I like when I find people who eat like a hunter gatherer like myself.. even if they don’t know it! Keep up the awesome training and I’ll be following your blog from now on!
Jenna
Welcome!
I have a few friends on the paleo diet who love it, and the only thing that I would have a hard thing giving up would be the beans!! I’m hispanic, and they are a staple!! Good luck!
great philosophy, especially about free range animals and local produce. I always try to do the same and rarely eat meat. I am also always amazed at how much better local, organic ingredients taste.
I follow the same eating habits/philosophy. Kudos to you!
My mother has the same issues with milk products. But now she has gone onto eating pescitarian with a few green protein smoothies and hasn’t had an issue since.
Now, if I could just get free range around here. It’s unfortunate. No Whole Food around here. But I tend to eat primarily vegetarian and have my CSA box delivered monthly to my door – where I blanch and freeze most of it to last me until my next delivery.
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I’m vegetarian except for some seafood, mainly wild Alaskan salmon. If I had to eat more meat for some reason, I’d choose meat from the most humanely raised free range animals I could find, like you do. Sounds like we have about the same eating habits aside from that. Lots of beautiful, colorful, mostly organic produce is the thing I try to concentrate on.
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