Parent Teacher Magazine Rowan Salisbury Schools September 2014 | Page 12

Beatrice's Healthy Options Beatrice RD Hair 818 Corporate Circle Salisbury, NC 28147 704-633-8207 704-633-8206 - Fax [email protected] You want your family to eat healthy, tasty food, but you’re busy. What should you do? Instead of unhealthy fried chicken, make “Beatrice’s Better-than-fried Chicken” for dinner. Add an easy-to-prepare side dish of squash. Create a delicious kale salad, and finish with a wonderful no-bake cheesecake. The following healthy recipes are dairy-free, gluten-free, toxin-free, soy-free, sugar-free, and MSG-free. You can even hide vegetables in the dessert—a secret weapon for any supermom who knows that her kids need to eat more vegetables! What is the thinking behind these recipes? Before the industrial revolution, people ate food from local farms. They cooked it themselves. Now, most foods are processed with chemicals to be more flavorful and last longer. They are genetically modified to be bigger and more attractive. They even have pesticides built into their genes with these genetic modifications. Cows and chickens grow faster, thanks to hormones and antibiotics. Milk produc