The Joyful Mom blog is taking a decidedly different turn.

I love food!

Not just eating food but growing it, picking it (out of my own garden and u-pick fields), the history of food “The Golden Bough” was my first book that made me think about food!  That book has lead me to read more over the years.  Frances Moore Lappe’s book Diet for a Small Planet (20th Anniversary Edition) was a book I read but had a hard time making my own–I wanted to follow her ideas and make them my own–but it wasn’t my time.  Then along came Hope’s Edge: The Next Diet for a Small Planet and with that book I finally got it!  I understood the issues with food but I didn’t have a plan to implement it–I had 4 very young kids and was overwhelmed.  I kept wanting to care and make a difference but it wasn’t “my own” yet.  Finally last summer it hit me as listened to Michael Pollan’s “The Ominvores Dilemma” on 13 CD’s and then read the The Omnivore’s Dilemma: The Secrets Behind What You Eat, Young Readers Edition!  (My son also read the kid version and he now makes very different food choices vs before reading the book.)

So now here I am–a Mom of 4 energetic, hungry kids, cooking breakfast, lunch, dinner for 6 and wanting to make a difference in feeding my family.  I want to eat real food–not food created in a lab.  I want to eat food from seeds that have learned to grow in the wind . . . not plants that are dumped with chemicals to make them grow taller, faster and bigger–with less nutritional value.

Here I am–a Mom researching, blogging, reading and cooking.  I’m sharing it all with you.

The first question I had was:  What is a GMO?

Not only was is a GMO–but why do I care?  Will it hurt me?  Make my kids grow super tall or have them develop before their bodies would be ready? (This article is amazing with a little bit of the history!)

I went online and found THE NON GMO PROJECT, a awesome website that explains not only what GMO’s are but also gives a list of what foods are non-gmo.  They also have an app!  I love my apps!  I have used the app quite a bit–my phone in one hand and looking through the pantry with the other.

I sort of like Jillian Michael’s–I’m sure now that she has kids she has cleaned up her language a bit–but a few foul words have never stopped me from listening to what she has to say about food!  Her no-nonsense approach to “not eating poison” has really made me stop and listen/read.  In this short article she gives some great information about the food choices we make.

Stay tuned for more articles like this

AND

some great recipes using non-GMO foods!

Be Blessed.

I’m linking up with these wonderful blogs!