This is a new food blog updated by a couple living in Chicago, Greg & Kristen, who are just a little obsessed with eating well and living well in very simple ways.
Over the past year, we’ve been reading a lot of books on nutrition, food studies, and illnesses to determine the best ways to eat, and this blog is that on-going investigation and its results.
We’re healthy, young people, but we care about our future and the future of people we care about. We aren’t eating well because we find ourselves with health complications, we’re eating well to try and avoid illness as we grow older together. We’re eating well to feel good physically, with the added bonus of feeling good about where our food comes from: plants.
how we eat
To put it simply, we’re whole-food, plant-based eaters. To put it even more simply, we eat plants. In most respects, we follow a vegan diet, because that’s the way in which we are able to eat a wholesome, nutrient-rich diet and avoid animal proteins, which have been linked to conditions such as cancer and heart disease.
To be more specific, we eat whole grains of all kinds (as long as it’s got the germ and bran!), beans, vegetables, nuts, fruits, and nutritional yeast.
Our favorite foods are oatmeal, ground flax, whole wheat spaghetti, home-soaked and cooked beans, bean sprouts, hummus, tomato sauce cooked with extra veggies and garlic, roasted garlic, roasted broccoli and cauliflower tossed with lemon and olive oil, baked kale chips, green tea, roasted barley tea, quinoa, salads, warm strawberries, frozen cherries… mmmm. I could go on and on!
beyond veganism
Our nutritional concerns go beyond the principles of veganism and refraining from consuming animal products: We avoid refined grains, processed foods, salt, sugar, and bad oils. We’re whole-food, plant-based eaters.
reading the blog
The goal on this blog is to take what sounds like either a really dreary diet to those of you that love white bread and sugar, or a labor-intensive diet for those of you with busy lives, and show you that neither of those ideas are true! Greg is our resident exercise expert, and I’m really interested in issues of womens’ health. We’re both interested in reusability and reducing waste too, so stay tuned!
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