Our Methodology

How should we eat? It was a dizzying dilemma for us to devise a methodology for Fresh Mouth. It seems like it would be a simple question. It wasn't. We had to figure out if we were: all organic; all local; vegetarian; preservative free; low-carb; low-fat; or even just raw.

We turned to Pollan's book, In Defense of Food, as a guideline, and we came up with some happy, realistic family choices of our own. We want this diet to be sustainable so we're keeping things like butter and sugar and beer. Here's our lists of ins and outs:




In
- Sugar
- Flour - even though it's white and processed, we'll stick with King Arthur brand b/c it's unbleached, all-natural
- Butter
- Oils - olive, canola
- Salt
- Coffee
- Multi-vitamins
- Baby formula
- Cod liver oil - I secretly put it in the kids OJ every morning
- Meat - organic when we can swing it
- Fresh or frozen veggies and fruit (canned only when they have the "5 or less" ingredients and none of the "outs.")
- Milk
- Eggs
- Nuts
- Alcohol - beer, wine, the works

Out
- Artificial sweeteners
- Fast food
- Soda
- Food dyes
- Hydrogenated oils
- High fructose corn syrup
- Processed foods with "5 or more" ingredients
- Things we can't pronounce. Think "Sorbitan monostearate."
- Eating in the car or standing up
- Microwave

Nugget o' the Day: "Mom, how come we don't have more pictures of the supermarket at home?" - Aidan