SouthernBreeze
Has No Life - Lives on TB
SouthernBreeze -- it sounds like your d-i-l may have some mental health issues going. Overly concerned about her health and then refusing to follow doctor's instructions. Likely more influenced by what she's seeing in vlogs and various other Internet sources. Guess all you can do is keep praying for her and your son and maybe put a bee in his ear about her needing a mental health evaluation.
That could be a part of it, Anna. She is overly obsessed with what goes into her body. I could go on and on about her beliefs, but a lot of it is all junk that she has sat and watched on different youtube videos or read in a book somewhere. Seems like her pastime is spent online doing research about it. Of course, she's so naive that she believes everything she reads. She works on her computer from home, so has access to it all during the day.
I'm all for eating healthy. I cook from scratch, but I buy ingredients from the grocery store, since I can't raise everything I use. Canned meats, veggies, and other store bought items from the grocery store makes up 95% of my food storage. The rest is frozen in my 2 chest freezers. People who have the ability to make and use what they raise or grow are very fortunate. I wish we were able to do that, but it's not possible. Do I have items in my pantry that have MSG in them? Sure, but I don't fret about it, and will certainly not throw it out. What about GMO products? There's not much in the way of canned veggies and other foods that aren't GMO, unless you only buy pure organic. I don't fret that either, within reason. White flour is NOT poison. People have been eating bread and biscuits forever, and I don't know of a single person who has died from eating flour. I have no health or medical issues with gluten. We enjoy homemade breads and biscuits quite often, especially cornbread, which I don't think has any gluten in it, since it's made from corn. I could be wrong, but I don't worry about it. We also enjoy sweets from time to time. Neither of us are diabetic, so why not? Am I concerned about all this stuff that's added to our foods? Yes, but everything within reason. There's not too much we can do about keeping it 100% out of our menus. All we can do is what we feel right is for us and our families, and most of all, Trust God with the rest of it.
I made from scratch last night, red beans and rice with sliced smoked sausage mixed in, a garden salad, deviled eggs, and buttered cornbread. I did not lay awake last night worried that anything I ate was going to make me less healthy or sick.
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