WHAT WOULD JESUS EAT?

WHAT WOULD JESUS EAT?



Perhaps the most important question you need to ask yourself right now is:

Why do I eat what I eat?
Would Jesus eat this?
If you will ask and honestly answer these two questions about every bite of food you put into your body, you will be forced to confront two main truths about the way you are living.

Truth #1: Most of what we eat comes from unwise and unconscious food choices

Truth #2: Most of what we eat in a given day would not have been what Jesus would have eaten if He were walking in our shoes

I challenge you to take a serious look at why you eat what you eat.



We have bad habits of eating highly processed foods; we call them convenience foods for the most part. We live in the fast lane, we want food prepared fast.

We seek out packaged foods because we think they might be easier to fix fast.



Let me give you an example of one: Tuna Helper…. Do you know what is in this boxed food? (I went to the Betty Crocker website and located the product to provide this information for you) Enriched Pasta, Corn starch, salt, partially hydrogenated soybean oil, hydrolyzed vegetable protein, carrots, corn syrup solids, maltrodextrin, monosodium glutamate monoglycerides, parsley flakes, sodium caseinate, spice, natural flavor, silicon dioxide, egg and nonfat milk.

To prepare this dinner you need 1 can of tuna and some water and this box mix. How long does it take to make this? About 30 minutes.

½ cup of this dinner is 280 calories, a whopping 640mg of sodium.

To make a tuna casserole from scratch the ingredients I use are: 2 cups egg noodles, 1 can of tuna, 1 cup fat free ½ and ½, 1 (4oz) can mushrooms and 1 cup frozen green peas. How long does this take to prepare? 20 minutes. A ½ cup of this dinner is 165 calories and only 103 mg of sodium. So you see boxed foods are not always conveniently quicker, and they certainly are not healthier for us. Why I can not even pronounce ½ of the ingredients in the boxed tuna helper, I had enough trouble spelling them. Do you want to put things into your body your body you don't even know what it is?

No wonder Americans are overweight, and feel sluggish and tired and have no energy. I believe all these food additives might have something to do with the way we feel.

Take a look at your pantry, do you have a lot of packaged and processed food in there? Do you buy a lot of convenience foods? Why not get back to basics? Cooking from scratch usually doesn't take any longer than the boxed foods. It sure is healthier for you and your family.