About - Natural Healthy Eating
This site is about your choices of healthy foods. Glen and I (Janis) were finding it more and more difficult to find healthy foods because the quality kept getting worse over the last 25 years. By facing up to this fact and doing a lot of research, we have kept ahead of this trend and know how to tell what is nutritious and what should be avoided. Our goal has been to remain active and healthy throughout our lives and finding nutrient dense food is a big part of that.
Our Fast Food History
We weren't always as strict about healthy foods as we are now. When you are younger, you can get away with a lot more.We have been married for over 26 years and on our honeymoon, we ate a meal at Kentucky Fried Chicken. That was the last time we ate there. We were always health minded but on the road, we took what we could get. And most of the time we enjoyed it. For the next 6 years, once in awhile, we would try a taco from Taco Bell or a burger at Carl's Junior. In Glen's younger years, he loved Arbies roast beef. Our last event of eating on the road was at Arbies. We bought roast beef sandwiches and strawberry milkshakes. The shake tasted like plastic and the roast beef was relatively tasteless. That was it. We knew we were done with the fast food industry. That was about 1988
Healthy Fast Foods
In the 1990's, we shopped mainly at healthfood stores. Eating healthy was trying to avoid all the bad things that were going into the foods at that time. But we did have our weaknesses. We both loved Red Hot Blues, a healthy and HOT blue-corn chip. We were addicted to those things. We made our own nachos, with our own salsa and raw cheese. We were eating them as often as 3 times a week before we decided they weren't good for us anymore. Something had changed. The original manufacturer was taken over by another health food manufacturer who seemed to be buying up a lot of other manufacturing companies. We began noticing changes in a lot of the health foods that we purchased. We shifted our buying over to foods that we had more control over. We quite eating mayonnaise, quit eating soy products, quit eating most of the foods that were making my cooking days a little lighter. Mainly packaged foods. I've been able to adjust and I have found foods that are even better and still spend just as little time in the kitchen as I use to.
And Today...
We are in the 21st Century, genetically modified foods are in more than ever, and I am even more cautious as to what foods I buy. The hybrid tomatoes are looking more and more artificial and tasteless and I may quit eating them during the winter this year. During the summer months we welcome the heirloom cherokee tomatoes. We now always try to buy organic foods. Oh yes, and foods grown in the wild are probably even safer. The seeds have not been tampered with. And of course foods grown using sustainable methods are good too,
So Why are We Doing This Website?
We have another site, Arkadia's Choice, which is about nutrient dense food reviews. I'll be getting back to that one. But Natural Healthy Eating has all of our attention right now. I seem to have an urgency to tell everyone what I know about healthy foods. I've watched the quality of foods decline over the last 25 years and I don't like what I see.I am the writer and Glen is the editor but we have another love. I love to play in graphics and Glen is a web application developer. We are polishing our skills and will be doing more interactive widgets on this site (a widget is a little less than a gadget that's put on webpages for people to interact with). Our interest is to help you learn about healthy eating in a fun way. Life is about loving what you do, sharing and helping others, while encouraging others do the same. We hope you find value in this site. If you have something you would like to see more of, or something that you don't like, please let us know. We are here to help you. Sincerely, Janis
Contact Information
Glen and Janis Ihrig
Arkadia Systems
2416 W Victory Blvd., # 174
Burbank, CA 91506
Phone: 818-237-4423
Email: See bottom of page
Please feel free to email me if you have questions or comments. I am always happy to respond. Or... Ask a Question right here.
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