My Personal Food Beliefs

People are consuming information on healthy eating but not eating healthy foods.  That’s because we are drowning in a sea of nutrition information.  My beliefs on food, diets, cooking and nutrition are simple and follow the K.I.S.S. (Keep It Simple Silly*) philosophy:

1.  Food should nourish the body, taste good and look like food.

You won’t find a tater tot casserole here.  Okay, well, maybe.  See #5.

2.  Cook at home as often as I can.

I have more control over the cooking method and ingredients in our food.

3. Cook with ingredients that have as few additional additives in them as possible.

I do the best I can with this one.  Some additives are necessary.

4.  If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is.

Do I sound like a skeptic?

5. Moderation in everything, even moderation.

This means we eat “healthy” 80-90% of the time and 10-20% of the time we eat whatever we want.

These are general guidelines I use when feeding myself and my family.   Most of the concepts are not new but work for us. What guidelines do you use to feed your family nutritious, healthy meals?

*I realize that K.I.S.S. usually stands for “Keep It Simple Stupid,” but Miss M. informed me that we don’t say “stupid” in our family.;-)