Learning as I go; It is never too late, If you are breathing, you can learn.

Let me be perfectly honest, I came in to this milk and cheese sales by the grace of God and totally out of my own need. If you read my intro you know I am in the latter part of middle age (0-30 = young, 31-60 = middle, 61-80 = old, 81- death = wow you must have done well on keeping the 5th commandment.) I have been out of my usual work, since my husband died in September 2013. My health has not been excellent in a long time and my back is a constant source of debilitation. I needed a way to make some money without being locked to a desk eight hours a day.

I, like most Americans, grew up drinking milk. I mostly drank it out of the bowl after eating my morning cereal, in the school lunchroom and with any desserts after dinner while I still lived in my parents home. Cheese was a food that I do not remember enjoying as a child. I remember as a small child having a bite of my dad's roast beef sandwich that had Swiss cheese on it and thinking that it was terrible. My mom, like so many others, was a Velveeta user. Until I was maybe 20 years old, I had never had a real cheese, grilled cheese sandwich. Cottage cheese and cream cheese were used in our household, but hard cheeses were not a staple there.

I grew up somewhat sheltered, it did not occur to me that one human being would feed another human being something that was not food ( well there was that one time the base bully tried to get me to eat dried dog poop, but even at four years old, I knew better than to do that.) What I am getting at is that I thought if it was in the grocery store on the shelves it was food. That is not necessarily so.

I have had difficulties keeping my weight under control since I had my third child at age 31, so I have read lots of diet books. I exposed myself to information about calories in vs. calories out ad nauseam. Most of those books I read never touched on the chemicals in our packaged foods, the books were based on the food pyramid put out by the FDA the same FDA that determines whether food is safe for our consumption. For my part, I am learning that just because something is approved by the FDA doesn't mean I want to eat it, and some things they do not approve are proving to be better for my personal health. All this was a lead in to a link I wanted to share here : http://dontwastethecrumbs.com/2014/03/30-additives-in-dairy-products-you-should-know-about/