Day 3 of the experiment

We've been trying healthy eating recipes for about a month now but I've just recently decided that I want to share what we've learned with others.

I've been asked how I got interested in doing a blog about healthy eating. I got the idea after watching the movie Julie and Julia. After we found out that Kevin has high cholesterol I figured that I could try making healthy recipes and share the results with my friends and family. I want to be the messenger of healthy eating by making real recipes and having real people (especially my two year old and husband)evaluate and decide whether or not the recipes are worth making again. Often if Madison does not like the recipe, it is not good. I figure that if a two year old likes the food, it must be good!

I think that one of the reasons we did not eat as healthy as we could have in the past is because we did not know where to start. I ended up checking out some books at the library and then bought the ones that I enjoyed the most.

Once I started reading the healthy cookbooks I realized that I could start modifying our current recipes to make them better. We did not have to completely find new recipes.

I started by making banana bread and instead of using a 1/2 cup of butter, I used a 1/2 cup of unsweetened apple sauce. The bread was so delicious and moist and we did not miss the grease from the butter. Also, we started buying Egg Beaters instead of eggs. Did you know that just one large egg contains your entire daily intake of cholesterol? By eliminating the butter and yokes in the bread I pretty much eliminated fat and cholesterol.

Another small change that we've recently done is switch from whole grain breads and crackers instead of white or wheat. There is protein in the whole wheat grains and they are also complex carbohydrates which break down and digest differently. When it comes to pasta we now use the multi-grain pasta. The whole grain pasta is disgusting!!! However, the multi-grain pasta does not taste any differently than the standard pasta.

Tonight I will make a recipe from the Hungry Girl book called "Cheeseburger Mac Attack", it is a crockpot recipe....I'll post later to let you all know how it went!