PERSPECTIVE

Food, wonderful food!

Make your menu clean and natural

We love food chez Titterington. We like to find recipes, shop, chop, sauté, bake, grill, whatever. It’s often a group project or it’s a nice quiet time alone in the kitchen or at the barbeque grill. For us food is not just something that fills the hole and even when it is, because sometimes it is, we’re careful about what we fill that hole with. Turns out that 10-month-old Fin loves food, too! Andy and Alli dropped him by at dinner time last night and we set him up in the highchair next to the table. I filled his little dish with the same food that we were eating. He grabbed handfuls of broccoli and pushed them into his month along with the turkey larb (ground turkey with some spices) until he seemed full, which we could tell because he was more interested in dropping the larb to the dogs than eating it. We saved the strawberries for last though. They’re always good for a howl of excitement.

While looking through the issue, it became clear that there’s only one thing I can write about here…food!

First off, in her feature story, Lynn U Nichols writes about the importance of paying attention to what you eat and making good choices. She lays it out right away:

“You’ve heard it a million times: You are what you eat. What you ingest becomes a part of you. It gets built into your bones, organs and blood. Cell by cell, bite by bite, it becomes you. That can be daunting or inspiring. Either way, it’s a good reminder to feed your kids nutritious foods that grow healthy bodies and strong immunities. The smaller the body, the more it matters.

Eating healthy is really quite simple. Eat whole foods that are close to their natural form, like fruits, vegetables, nut butters, whole grains, and organic meats, fish and eggs.”

I repeated the entire introduction here because it’s so concise. It’s refrigerator-magnet worthy!

We often chuck out the phrase “food is medicine,” and we believe it. Eat well, stay well. Give your body what it needs.

Next on the good-food list is our Bounty section where Lisa Boesen takes a deep dive into locally produced food and Community Supported Agriculture. Want fresh food closest to its natural form? Look no further. We also list area Farmers Markets and Food Stands.

In her story on gardening, Theresa Baer gives us ideas for prepping, planning and planting your garden with thoughts about how to make it engaging and instructive for kids, too.

And finally, Lea Hanson even touches on what foods to avoid for tooth health in her dental story.

Food is great all year, but I especially love it when all the fresh fruits and vegetables start showing up at markets and stores. Time to shift our thinking to what’s best in the new season.

Bon appetit,

Scott

MAY 2022 • Volume 25, Issue 12

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