Alvin!

[Guest guest]

THANK YOU! For all your posts this morning.

May I add that seeing this group name-call/mock the producers that have gone

astray does not bring me comfort in being a newbie at this group, and actually

brings me to a level of distrust and not wanting to participate in group buys.

At what point will I become mocked and/or treated without integrity?

Finally, I have been learning about natural health for 11 years, and though I

loathe to admit it, for the sake of the newbies-to-natural-health, who are

probably already overwhelmed and horrified at how far they are from their goals,

I will admit it: I do upon occasion, feed my kids those horrid protein bars

from Sam's Club. I am not proud of it, but I single parent 4 kids (ages 6 - 14)

and homeschool the younger 3. I am NOT a morning person, and so if I don't have

convenience food for my 14yo, she often DOES NOT EAT BREAKFAST at all. Am I

happy to be raising her on bars, bagels, yogurt, and other high carb grab-and-go

stuff for breakfast? NO. Am I glad she's not missing school monthly due to

malnourishment and illness this year? Yes.

Life is a process. Not one of us has reached perfection and not one of us will

this side of heaven. I ask you, for the encouragement of others, to check your

pride and let your answers just be yes or no.

For the newbies, just by changing one thing at a time, you're actually changing

two. If you do bars, for example, you'd be stopping the refined sugars (yea!),

and adding a healthy replacement. That's 2 steps up from where you were. I

like to start with small changes to get a few successes under my belt before

going on to larger changes.

If you're here because you've been recently told your family has food

intolerances, that's big enough, go with that, and that alone. Feel free to ask

me if you need help with wheat/gluten and/or dairy/casein. Yes, in addition to

homeschooling and single parenting, I have to cook everything from scratch. I'm

not picking the bar battle yet, and I refuse to feel guilty about it.)

For those of you who have mastered the bar problem, if you have gluten free,

dairy free (preferably soy free) convenience foods and/or recipes to replace the

necessary car/diaper bag snacks required by every parent of small children,

please, please share. It would rock my world.

Thank you.

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