halving our processed food consumption?

So, we've watched a couple episodes of a new show, "Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution", and we've been inspired to continue working on our eating habits, in particular reducing our consumption of processed food.  Lauren attempted to "give up" processed foods for Lent, which resulted in some reduction of processed food combined with the realization that depending on how you define "processed", this was easier said than done.  While Lauren did buy more organic and try to avoid eating out anywhere other than Chipotle and Panera, it was not the most successful Lenten sacrifice to date, that's for sure. 

Still, we are going to try to continue to reduce our processed food consumption, and to help, Brett decided he would give Lauren a week off from planning and preparing meals, and try cooking new recipes, so he found 7 recipes we've never tried before from several of our cookbooks, made the shopping list, and today we did a grocery shopping that we hope would have made Jamie Oliver proud.  Aside from the 3 varieties of Cheerios (they lower cholesterol!), the Nature Valley granola bars (processed, or not?), chicken broth and canned beans and tomatoes, we think everything else we bought would be considered fresh food!

We were quite proud of ourselves, and dinner tonight was delicious.  Cajun mustard pork chops, risotto and corn.  (OK, we've had risotto and corn before, but the entrees are all new to us).

And Lauren is not sure what she's more excited about, eating healthier or not having to cook for a week!  It is amazing how taking a good look at our stuff and trying to get rid of anything we don't need or love has also inspired us to look at other aspects of our lives and determine what is really important to us and worth putting effort into, and what can be eliminated, and we agree that processed food should go and fresh food is worth the effort.  Next we hope to tackle the Corner from Hell :)