As many of our friends and family know, my wife and I are quite choosy when it comes to the food we eat. We are avid supporters of buying local. I will always look to see where food at grocery store comes from. If I can buy tomatoes from Canada instead of from Mexico for example, I will choose the closest. Supporting our economy as well as, in one small way, helping our environment. I know that the truck is driving whether I buy the tomato or not, but it makes me feel better. The same goes for our CSA. We have bought into a CSA from a local Farm. Where every week we get a box of organic vegetables and fruit and farm fresh eggs and so on. We have done this to again support our local economy, the farmers directly. Instead of the box stores shipping it in from everywhere else except the closest suppliers.
This shift has been relatively easy. The health of my family has been greatly effected for the better. This mind set instilled in my daughter of healthy thinking will no doubt make her make healthy choices for her entire lifetime.
My biggest downfall left is the consumption of sugar. Especially in my coffee. I put a teaspoon of sugar into every coffee I drink. A coffee as soon as I wake up, one on the drive to work, one at work before I start working, usually one around lunch time, one if its cold outside around 2 or 3pm, and then maybe 2 or 3 cups of de-Cafe after supper.
Everyday, that's 6 or 7 teaspoons or straight white sugar in my system from coffee alone. That's on top of everything else that sugar is in.
Everything,
Sugar is like a drug to our bodies, it makes us feel good while we are tasting it and then it hurts our bodies when it is being digested and then makes us want more. A single sugar factory produces 400,000+ tonnes of sugar a year. Sugar companies are loving the trend of sugar being in everything.
So , as of this week I have taken a stand and have switched to putting natural honey into my coffee. A half teaspoon is enough for a large coffee. The very first mouthful I could taste the honey. A little different but tasty. The next few mouthfuls and it was delish! My wife who doesn't like sugar in her coffee says it makes normal coffee taste like a latte. I believe it tastes just like a coffee I'd make everyday. With no added processed sugar. I can drink the coffees guilt free until. I cut back the coffee as well.
And to top it all off, the honey we get is local, from right here in Nova Scotia. Like 30minutes away. Their bees could have been on my flowers, who knows.
So, if I could convince everyone to buy local, and to switch sugar in their coffee to honey,
I would save the environment and potentially their lives.
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