The quick answer: In the food reformation, there will be back-sliding. The key is to gather yourself up and recommit to improving your diet.
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Food Reformation
Some day, looking back in history’s rearview mirror, upi’ll be able to mark the start of a new progressive movement—the food reformation. Perhaps the year 2000 will mark this new beginning. Whatever the year, if you’re a regular reader of Word of Wisdom Living, then you’re part of that reformation. Congratulations—you’re on the side of the angels.
We support the reformation with our 52 Healthy Changes—returning to each change year after year until healthy eating becomes so natural there’s nothing of substance left to change. I’m starting to appreciate that it will take a number of years of steady improvement, marked by occasional slips, to achieve a food reformation in our home.
Take menu writing, for example. Healthy Change #3 said: Write a weekly dinner menu and shopping list. For Healthy Change #29 we return to this topic, inviting you to improve your menu writing.
A Great Summer
We’ve had a wonderful summer with lots of visitors and happy times at the beach. We were busy—besides all the guests we managed to publish a book, and landscape the back yard. It was a memorable summer. But we just realized one thing: We probably only wrote a real menu about one week of each month this summer. That’s a definite “slip.” I could have seen the effect by just looking at our checkbook—when you’re not using a weekly menu and shopping list you run to the store oftener, and waste more money.
So we’re reminded that repentance is part of reforming behavior and we square our shoulders and resolve to do better.
Healthy Change #29: Improve your menu writing process.
This subject deserves more discussion, but we’re getting up early in the morning to drive to little Midway, Utah for Swiss Days and I have to get to bed. But I promise to come back to this topic if you’ll share some comments on how you have improved your menu writing. And if you’re in Midway for Swiss Days, stop by the house and say hello—we’re at the corner of 2nd North and 4th West, the Victorian farmhouse with the wooden statue of a man offering an apple. Our best to you.