I'm officially organic

This week I started on a new adventure in my life.  I'm officially an all-organic eater.  I hadn't initially planned on becoming this way- but I've just learned far too much about our food system and how our food is produced and what is added to it.  It's really scary.  REALLY scary!!  I have made a decision to only eat organic (as much as possible) and to only put natural things into my body.

I hope to achieve a 90/10 ratio.  90% of the time I'll eat organic and natural, and 10% of the time I can eat the things in life that are so yummy to eat (cake, Nutella, ice cream, etc).  It can be done, but will involve some sacrifice and some re-learning old habits.  I'm excited about this journey.  I want to see what my body can do when I only fill it with the right things.

Here are my rules:
1.  Anything I eat has to have 6 ingredients or less (which until I started shopping in a health food store was kinda tough).
2.  I will only eat organic fruits/veggies.
3.  I will only eat organic dairy (including raw milk).  My goal is to cut out dairy almost entirely by the end of the year.  That will take some adjusting so I'm giving myself until the end of the year to do this.
4.  I will eat when I'm hungry and learn to control my emotional eating.
5.  If I choose to eat meat, it MUST be grass fed, no hormone or antibiotic, and no nitrate meat from a local farmer.  I will likely not eat meat much at all (I don't now), but I won't rule it out entirely.  A good burger is yummy sometimes.
6.  If it's on the ingredient list and I can't pronounce it- it doesn't go down the hatch.  Natural and artificial flavors are out, too.  That is code for (chemicals we don't tell you about).

I think my poor husband thinks I've gone over the edge, but it's what I do.  I get on kicks fairly often. I'm really hoping this won't just be another fad or kick, and I don't think it will  I want this to stick around.  I don't want to be dying prematurely from the inside out.  I want to be healthy.  I want to only put things in my body that God would recognize. 

Join me on this journey... I hope it's fun and educational (and yummy along the way).