Soda that is.  I haven’t had a drink of diet anything since Sunday night.  I am a religious soda addict drinker.  I would often have multiple sodas open around the house so that I was never too far away from one.  But as part of my whole food eating plan–soda and anything artificial is a no no.  Sugar is too so there won’t be any real soda either.  I have made a relatively slow transition to the whole food eating–that’s really to say that I have had a piece of chocolate each day.  Today will be my first day without it.  I haven’t been 100% religious as today I used bottled salad dressing that has a tiny bit of sugar in it.  But I have been trying.  It’s easier than I thought but really is time consuming and for someone like me who really is often crunched for time–it certainly would be a lot easier to pop a hot pocket in the microwave and eat that instead of eating a sweet potato at 9 after I put the kids to bed.  But It is what it is and sweet potatoes rock.

One thing I have done to help is I ordered produce from a coop.  Picked up my first order last night.  Can’t believe what I got for $23:

5 apples
5 oranges
7 clementines
2 yams (about 2lbs each–they are huge)
2 heads of romaine (again–huge heads)
2 tomatoes
1 carton cherry tomatoes
1 carton mushrooms
1 bunch bananas
1 cucumber
2 grapefruit
4 pears
1 bunch cilantro
3 bunch green onions
2 broccoli crowns
1 dozen eggs
2 10# bags of red potatoes (if you live near me and need some potatoes let me know–I certainly won’t be eating all of these)

I know there were a couple more but I can’t remember right now.  Anyway as you can see it’s a lot.  I am not sure how I am going to eat it all but you can bet I’ll be looking for some recipes for potatoes–any suggestions?  While ideally our coop would be organic (it isn’t) but I can make due.  I hate the ideas of chemicals, etc., but the coops are hoping to move toward organic as they get more and more members.  I’ll probably still by some organic produce (the stuff the kids really like to eat).

So, week one is almost done–my go to meal has become:  quinoa, sweet potato, onion, mushrooms, spicy tomato sauce and a pinch of goat cheese–I either it it vegetarian style or will throw in chicken or shrimp.  It is delicious.  I try to make enough so that I have leftovers for lunch the next day–the kids like it too.  I also love tossing some quinoa in my salads–nice added texture and flavor.

What are some of your healthy eating tips?  Don’t forget about the potatoes–what am I going to do with those?