Natural Beauty Products

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2008/07/15/three-green-beauty-alternatives.aspx?source=nl

Hidden Chemicals in our Food ("Food?")

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2008/04/29/new-stealth-chemicals-hidden-in-your-food.aspx?source=nl

Finding BPA-free products

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2008/05/22/where-to-find-bpa-free-products.aspx?source=nl

High Fructose Corn Syrup

Very interesting article and comments:

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2008/07/08/beware-of-new-media-brainwashing-about-high-fructose-corn-syrup.aspx?source=nl

Interesting information on sunscreen

I enjoyed reading the comments at the end. I always learn a lot from the other readers.

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2008/07/01/four-out-of-five-sunscreens-may-be-hazardous-to-your-health.aspx?source=nl

Back to the Beginning

I got online this week to order some more canned food for Joshua, and -- surprise! -- the price has nearly DOUBLED. I know everything has gone up lately, but this is huge. Before, I would order 12 cases at a time (24 cans of food in each case) for a little over $500 -- because the website I order from (I can give them a shout-out -- I've been very pleased with them -- I use imed.com) offers free shipping when you order $500, so I figure why pay shipping when you don't have to? I just stack the boxes in Joshua's closet to use as we go. Well, now for just over $500 I can only get SIX cases. Wow! The food is now $85/case -- that's over $3.50/can. Sometimes we only give Joshua 5 cans a day (5 feedings, 1 can at each), but he really should get about 7 cans/day. That expense adds up very quickly! Now we could switch to a different cheaper food, but the whole point of us using this canned food is that it has more "real food" ingredients. In fact, this is what started us down this health path. So all we know to do right now is to be more diligent to blend up Joshua's food. It's better for him and cheaper, too. So we've been working on a basic recipe we can use to efficiently make a good blend for Joshua. Having a basic plan in place will help me when I shop, too, so we'll have the ingredients on hand for him to eat well, too.