Feeling fabulous!

Well we've been on the natural eco friendly organic life style for a couple weeks now. Its been an interesting journey to say the least. While we havent lost much weight I can feel a difference in the way our food tastes and how my body feels. We went to whole foods and its so much nicer than trader joes. We also decided to subscribe to emeals, which is a site that you can customize, and it lays out your meal plan, recipes, budget and shopping list. so far im totally in love with it. We are on the organic track at whole foods for a family of 6. (the meals only include dinners, so we make more to have lunches for the week) I really love it. They have tons of tracks, like low carb, portion control, and all different markets like aldis and walmart. so its really cool. this weeks menu is roasted shrimp and tomato pasta, mexican cheese strata, dijon and thyme chicken with roasted potatoes, buffalo turkey burgers with Gorgonzola spread, 4 cheese baked ziti, asian chicken salad and fusilli with spicy chicken sausage. yuuummmyyyy!!

going through all the cosmetics and kitchen items are hard. like changing out of plastic containers to glass, and having to go through different databases to find out what is really in our products. its scary. but so far we like all the changes weve been doing which is great.

so lets see...
cloth diapering, mama padding, cloth napkins, cloth paper towels, refillable washable mop,reusable grocery bags,  all organic/natural personal items and cleaning products, and all organic/natural food, removing all plastics from food handling. Right now we are trying to cut down on trash, and conserve as much water as we can, since we have to do wash more often now. (though doubling zoeys diaper stash has cut washing to every 3 days which is FABULOUS)

my skin is noticeably clearer now. im not sure since its my 3rd month on microgestrin or the natural product replacement or my tanning bed worship. (yes i know it seems stupid to take all these precautions and yet still tan. but im still NOT convinced that tanning is that bad for you) but im so relieved. Im 27 I should not be still having acne like a 13 year old boy....sighs....im using alba acne wash and tarte cosmetics. Im in love with both so far. im glad were saving money with the cloth things cause they arent cheap...sighs...but i still think its better to forgo the iphone and ipad and use that money toward our bodies, we only get one.

i ordered a kitchen aid food processor to start making baby food so im excited for that. i have the attachment on my stand mixer but its actually really hard to do on there. its better to leave that for apple sauces etc, things that need a much finer smooth texture. but since shes eating a lot more solids i think this is the way to go.

so lets see, what is my zoey jane up to? shes been crawling for a couple weeks now, shes passed the standing on furniture and crusing along to standing on her own and standing in the middle of the floor. im excited im off next week for another week of maternity leave so maybe she will walk then :) shes really been eating well, she loves cottage cheese but still hates peas. oh well :)