Clean Foot Print

The new movement is to get clean, healthy and rid of chemicals in our routines and bodies, yes I am writing about this – in a different way.

I can’t count the numbers of times I get to answer this question and every time I turn around some professional is sharing new information on how important this actually is for us.

Then the next challenge as seen by others is how, or it’s so expensive.  To start “fresh is best” my old tag line from the days when we had a spice and olive oil shop here in town.  “Eat the season” was also a comment I made regularly.  Our greatest ancestors had limitations, no guns and bows and arrows were a long way down the road, so hunting and fishing were very different.  Meats were limited, fish were more prevalent, but things from the land were the “spice of life” and the way we ate back then.  So our bodies have a predisposition to eat in the same fashion. 

I was, for many years, healthy and thin, strong and active, or at least I thought. Having experienced back pain, I started on a path with “Advil” many times a day, now I have to clean up my body to get back to health.  And that’s not the only thing that I was challenged with, Pepsi, sugar, foods that were processed, fast foods – although I hated most of these, I think you get the picture. 

Making the change wasn’t as hard as I thought it would be.  I grew up with 2 gardens in the yard, one was only raspberries, but I grew fond of being in the dirt.  So when I have the chance things got planted, even in pots around the patio when I was apartment living.  I have always had a greenish thumb!!  Then my love of cooking started to shine.  It is WAY less expensive to cook lobster, prime rib, crab, shrimp than go to the restaurant all the time and living in the Bay area I have access to some of the best seafood.  Then I discovered different vegetation that I can grow here that sweetly compliment the foods I just listed.  I even started to enjoy more fresh salmon and other fish I had shied away from previously.   So this became a regular habit, shopped the best sales bought twice my need so I could stock the freezer making my budget go further.  Then it was time to attack the things around the house making me sick.  I have a sinus that has a weakness to it.  Every time something hits my body, that is where it lands. Reading has informed me that smoke aggravates this condition so my love of candles had to go, or at the least down 100 notches.  As some of you know about 30 years ago I found essential oils.  Now these were a good solution, but not a great one.  At that time the oils that were available were not the best standard and those companies have not changed their ways, they still are not the best.  Then I was introduced to dōTERRA, yes I’m at it again but with good reason.  I share with those that have similar challenges to me and my successes and I do get a fair amount of budget issues back.  SO, here are some comparisons to help change your thoughts and help you change your investing thus changing your budget.

Then I found out the difference in cost savings:

This does not include the amazing savings I get from the other products, and there is an awesome supplement line.  I have some of my friends that state that they have to “try” to get sick and I believe them.  Between their travels and schedules they totally amaze me.  So that when they do get sick it is something that requires a doctors’ attention.  Oh, and did I mention that I get paid for the stuff I use also?