We are a natural couple of Proebstings. Well, for the most part we are. I’m the one to blame for that. I practically grew up around a lifestyle that was organic, natural, and free of things like gluten and dairy. Can you believe people survive like that?! I learned a lot though, and it was during my prime learning years that I was around all of this stuff, so most of it has stuck.
I was also raised eating healthy. We rarely ate out, and my mom cooked, canned, and baked almost everything from scratch. Yum. So combine my upbringing with my teenage years when I was surrounded with a completely new lifestyle of eating… and I turned out to be one health conscious nut.
Now my husband grew up eating chicken fingers. How the two of us stayed together I have no idea. I honestly hadn’t had McDonalds so much in my life until we met. But it is tasty, I’m not knockin him there. I caved a whole lot with everything I had known, after all, it was fun to go out to eat with him. And it’s just food, right?
Once we were through the initial I’ll do anything for you, dating stage though, I started to have my doubts. I could not have married someone that only ate chicken strips. 1) He would die by the time he was 50. And 2) I can’t cook the same thing every night. I love to cook.
So he got brave, and I got forceful and slowly his eating habits changed. Thank God. And now he is fresh off of a 12 week transformation which indeed did transform his (and my) life. He ate so healthy through those 12 weeks, and felt great, not to mention the results were impeccable. But the amazing thing is, I don’t have to give him my hour long speeches on eating healthy anymore. He gets it. We get it. Because, after dating so long and eating like crap together for so long… I forgot/chose not to use a lot of what I learned growing up.
Food is not just food. You can’t just eat anything you want and be healthy. And medicine is great sometimes, but if you eat the right food that turns into preventative medicine. The funny thing with organic food is that people think it is some new fad. You all realize it’s not, right? It’s just people eating food the way it should be eaten. Naturally. Without chemicals, preservatives, colors, and enhancers. This is not some new fad, this is how the very first people ate… and I dare say they were healthier than we are.
So how do you think we’ll raise our little girl to eat? Guesses? For as much as we can help it, she will eat food in its most natural form. We’ve got this brand new baby to work with. We’re responsible for giving her nutrition, for helping her grow, for keeping her healthy, and for giving her good and healthy options. America
Leah will get a good balance in her life. It’s not like we will never take her to a restaurant, don’t worry. She will have cake. She will get treats. But most of her meals will be cooked from home. I will make all of her baby food from scratch. It’s really not that hard to mash some peas on your own. Not to mention, cheaper. I’m sure there will be times when I make her Kraft mac and cheese from a box… but that will be a very special occasion. She won’t get cows milk. Gasp! I don’t buy into the wisdom of the masses, sorry. She will get Almond Milk like her mama. And actually, she should be used to it… that’s all she’s gotten for the last 8 months. And before you worry about her bones and teeth and everything else, almond milk has plenty of calcium and protein just like milk. She will not… will not… get high fructose corn syrup. I said it. It’s really just boiled down pesticide, I don’t care what the new commercials have to say because people are finally figuring out how awful it is. I will lighten up on that one a little though, she won’t get it when she’s young. When she’s a little older we can splurge. But little ones don’t need sugar as it is, let alone that stuff. She won’t get soda. Ever. Or until she can buy it for herself. There is just no need. Again, just because something tastes good doesn't mean you need it.
I’m a sucker for ingredients. Call me crazy, but I like to know what exactly is going in my body, Kyle’s body, and soon Leah’s tiny body. Do you know there is aluminum in some pancake mixes? Because every good pancake needs a little aluminum to aide in digestion. So before you think I am going to be the worst, meanest mom in the world… would you let your kid eat aluminum, even if it tasted good and they wanted it? Somebody’s got to look out for her. And with Kyle and I knowing what we know about food, I feel like we’re up to the task.
It’s against the mainstream, I am well aware. So we’ve got an uphill battle to fight. But it matters to us, so I think we’ll do okay. And with our families, and whomever else might be involved in Leah’s life I think we can make it work.
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