Hello and welcome to episode two of the Wellness Mama podcast where we provide simple answers

for healthier families.

In my first episode I talked about why I wanted to start a podcast in the first place and

my mission in doing so and I've asked my readers online what would be helpful for me to cover

in the second episode and a lot of the feedback I got was that helping figuring out what actually

it practically means to be on a real food diet and how to make that happen especially on

a budget.

So that's what I'll be covering today.

Just my most asked questions in dealing with real food and it seems like real food is one

of those terms that has a hundred meetings on the internet.

For the most part I think that all of the real food quote unquote definitions are an improvement

over the standard American diet certainly but I also think it's important to define that

term these days because it's used so often across the board.

So for me real food just simply means unprocessed non modified foods and as close to their natural

state as possible with a focus on the most nutrient dense foods available and obviously

just doing the best we can with where we are in our state of life.

So at our house the bulk of our diet is made up of proteins like grass fed meats and

pastured poultry lots of vegetables.

There's a hashtag online going around called more vegetables than a vegetarian and I think

that's extremely important especially when we're talking about green vegetables and that's

an easy way to get extra nutrition in the diet and then also things like fruits and healthy

fats and the great majority of the foods found in the grocery store these days are actually

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