Eat to live, not live to eat!

My father always said to eat to live not live to eat. I never understood this until recently. I watch my older children spend alot of money of ridiculous trendy food and alot of time preparing and making it well a truly pleasurable experience. This is great and exciting and I do this once in a while perhaps 2 or three times a week. I see them do this with every meal. It is expensive with both time and money. They are simply pleasure junkies who live to eat. Now I get what my dad was saying. Eat to live. It is much simpler and easy to eat healthy meals that are not a circus to prepare.

Organic Everything

Several of my friends are organic everything. Grow what you can, buy organic what you can't no matter what the price and if not then don't buy it or eat it. I sit on the fence. I do have an organic garden (meaning no pesticides other than apple cider vinegar and garlic) and I do buy organic, but I am unwilling to give up all processed food as I still have 7 kids 12 and under and it's just alot of physical work to feed that crowd. I am a post-modern gal and honestly the pre-civil war approach to homemaking exhausts me at times. Yes, I do bake alot of whole grain breads, but not all of my bread!
My girfriend and I do get frustrated at the availability and cost of natural wholesome foods there is literally one store in our metropolitan area and it is always packed... so we have decided to open another one. In our imaginary store everything would be organic, of course. The meat from local and local farmer's for produce a locavore store with vitamins and herbs as well... named 007 (Only Organic 7 days a week) ~ License to Heal. LOL well we thought it was cute. Isn't necessity the mother of invention. The only problem is... with this many kids and homeschooling, would have to give up sleep to run a business.