Yesterday's 30 Days to 30 activity ran a little late so, thanks to a strong cup of coffee, I'm just posting this morning. It was a Healthy Shopping Tour put on at the Tempe Whole Foods Store. The host was a local chef/nutritionist, Chef Rachel. You can read more about her at her website: http://thegardenofeatingdiet.comThe purpose of the tour, apparently, was to help people with allergies (most specifically, gluten and diary) shop for healthy foods without those specific ingredients. So while I didn't get a whole lot out of that information since no one in our family has wheat or dairy allergies, I did learn a few things pertaining to Andrew's nut allergies.
As for the "healthy shopping" part of the tour, she basically made a shopping trip through each aisle of the store, telling us what could be bought, why it was good for us and some examples of how to cook it. My family better watch out since I am now half tempted to try out some bok choy and parsnips.
However, most of the information I received (outside of the allergy info) I already knew and if you don't feel like following someone around a grocery store for two and half hours, you can glean the majority of the information from reading Master Your Metabolism by Jillian Michaels, The Skinny Bitch by Rory Friedman or In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan (or any combination of the three). You can probably pick up any of those books on Amazon for half the cost that it took to attend last night's class.
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