It's a New Year

A little late for New Years resolutions, but who needs em to change for the better.
2009 was a terrible year in many ways, way too stressful, I see better times ahead, I feel more optimistic than I have in a long while.

Last year I did not keep up with logging my gardening activities very well. I want to use this journal to document dates, and procedures so i will know how to make my garden even better the next year.

I have enjoyed the jarred squash all winter, I gave some away as gifts, I call my squash from last summer a success! I got a pressure cooker for christmas, I am looking forward to being able to can some things I couldn't before. Like tomatoes.

My eating habits have gotten bad, I will snack on things like "goldfish", or cheezits, or cookies, and I over eat almost every night. I strive to make yummy dishes for my family, and I succeed, I cook good now. But I am a little bored with what I make, almost always the same veggies, meat and spices. Plus I cannot lose the 15 pounds I have wanted to llose for the past year. I am not fat, I just find the muffin top belly pudge to be uncomfortable, and I hate my double chin since when I gain weight it goes straight to my face. Anyway I have a friend who eats raw food often, I am seriously intrigued by this, it is not something I have ever considered, but it is quite a bit more complicated it is much like cooking without heat. Problem is when you find recipes often times there are ingredients which make you say "huh, WTF is that?" I like that there are ingredients out there which are new and undiscovered to my bored taste buds, but they are expensive and hard to find. which means if I undertake this it could be a slow (due to funds) and wasted experience (if i don't like the things I buy). I wish it was easier to sample without buying the farm. I have grown up on processed foods. Now I try to cook using fresh veggies and meat. I have two kids, one is open to new things the other is soooooo picky.

I think I will start simple with dessert type items. who doesn't like desssert, if there aren't any raw desserts which my fam and i will eat then that will be the end of the raw food journey.

I care not for political reasons to eat any certain way, I simply want to put them most pure energy producing cleanest products in my system possible.
I have high cholesterol, I fear heart disease (its in my family history) and I fear cancer, which is also rampant in my family history.

what you eat is what you are right, well I want to be clean and pure and that is it, that is my reason, simple!

so I am off to search for my first raw desert recipe, I will post my findings and all that goes down with my first attempt.

edit - I may not be able to do much at all, I don't have a food processor which it seems is pretty necessary for most recipes.