Food is a big deal at our house. It’s our health plan and our insurance and our future. We feel very strongly that food is the foundation for all the body’s needs, and our children deserve to eat real, whole, natural foods. Not from a box or a can or an aluminum tray, with all sorts of dubious substances added. It’s a very cool thing to hear our 2-year-old ask, “This organic food?” or “This vegan?”
We eat a predominantly vegan diet—no meat, fish, fowl, dairy, or eggs. We do use honey. The fundamentalist vegan would be right in arguing that some bees are killed through the regular maintenance and “harvesting” of the honey. Well, I figure that worms die every time we dig a carrot or potato out of our garden, and we probably inhale or step on many beings with each move we make.
So what we try to do is minimize the suffering our food choices create, while eating a nutritious, energizing, diverse diet.
Some books that have inspired us:
- Conscious Eating
– Gabriel Cousens
- The Sunfood Diet Success System
- David Wolfe
- Diet for a New America
- John Robbins
- The 80/10/10 Diet
- Dr. Douglas Graham
The following is a great basic cookie recipe that you can tweak to your tastes. We usually have the ingredients on hand, so it’s the default sweet treat around here. Makes a small batch, so if your family’s like mine, double it. If the children are already in bed, one batch'll probably do.
