Gadzooks

*photo from let's laugh dot net*

More and more Americans... well, some Americans, including me, are trying their best to eat healthier meals with less fat, less carbs, more veggies, leaner meats and fewer snacky foods which end up in empty calories,

yet many television cooking shows and new cook books on the market are not following this trend.

I for one am trying to go the healthy route, so when I tuned into a Saturday morning cooking show and lard was added to the pan, well... let's just say I was appalled and won't ever watch that particular show again.

I really had no idea that people with any sense of what is good for their family would use it.

Sense being the operative word... 

Lard elevates blood cholesterol levels and increases your risk of heart disease.  May as well start feeding it to your children at a young age, right?  I think that our family most likely stopped cooking with any quantity of lard in the 1960s, but perhaps the ranch wives across America never got the memo.  

  

I find it odd that people will drag their children out of public schools and home school them because they think it provides a better education or an education that serves their religion in a more meaningful way or keeps the children from being subjected to other 'things' that the parents find to be a negative influence on their kids, music with bad language, clothing that is overly provocative, an early introduction to sex, alcohol and or drugs... and yet at home they shove lard into their little bodies.

Protect the mind and forget about protecting their physical health. 

 Gadzooks. 

Lard?

Good grief.

Be still my arteries.

 I recently purchased this little number and you can bet it offers recipes that are much better for any one of us.  

 I don't even put the fat from egg yolks in my food anymore... this egg I cracked open for breakfast today had two yolks in it!  Probably would have created a two headed chick so just as well it's going down the disposal.

 This cookbook has photos of food rather than the author's pets, husband or children. I prefer having a photo of what I am cooking since I don't have time while cooking to peruse through and ooh and aah over someone's photographic skills.  Just show me the food, okay?

 AND, this cookbook breaks it down for you with the nutrition facts.  Even gives you the diabetic exchanges should you need it.

Doesn't THIS look tantalizing?

So get rid of that pretty cookbook with all the over-processed photos in it of someone else's 'pretending to be perfect' family and get yourself a cook book that will, if you follow the recipes, lead you to a much healthier life.

Sissy sent me an Amazon gift card for my birthday, so I ordered two more of the Taste Of Home Diet Cookbooks.

I'm going to have a lot to choose from in the way of recipes when they arrive!

Just a reminder that the Wal-Mart card give-away ends Sunday!