As a Holistic Nutritionist, I coach my clients to better health by explaining when we eat live, real, and local, in season food we will have more energy to do the things we really enjoy.

I also explain we must kick-start our day with a breakfast that will provide us the fuel our bodies need to perform our daily tasks optimally.

Once I state this and explain the daily symptoms a client will feel when not eating a balanced breakfast, skipping meals and consuming highly processed, chemical laden food they can be empowered to change their choices.

 The food bank hamper provided me food enough for one person for the week. The only real food in the hamper was 4 potatoes, 2 onions and 4 apples. The rest of the basket is what I call dead food. Dead Food contains no life, it is highly processed, contains chemical ingredients for stabilization and increasing shelf-life that also causes addiction to the food, allergies and poor health. It is no wonder eating this type of food stuff will eventually cause a breakdown of the highly connected systems in the body. i.e. the digestive system, immune system, hormonal system, nervous system etc. I would suspect many people consuming these type of food daily overtime develop mental illness starting with sadness and depression. How can an individual depressed feel as if they can turn their situation around. It would require enormous faith and dedication.  

Today, like other people living off a food hamper, my choices of food were provided. I ate toast and peanut butter for breakfast, an apple for snack and made a minestrone soup with the ingredients from the hamper. I had this for lunch and dinner.

To prepare my soup, I rinsed under cold water for 10 minutes the can of green peas and creamed corn. The creamed corn was no longer creamed corn. Then I sautéed the remaining onion, boiled the pasta until almost soft, added the green peas and corn to the skillet and continued sautéing. I drained the pasta, then added the tomatoes soup into the pot with 3 cups of water and stirred. Once it became a soup I added my pasta noodles, green peas and corn. I seasoned with ground black pepper.

My headache is mild today, I am not feeling hungry yet, but I will and I am looking forward to eating an avocado or two Saturday. Some brain food!!