I go to great effort to get high quality foods for my family. I eat Low Carb but my family does not. So that means I have to prepare our food differently. My children only get organic sprouted grain bread. I don’t throw out the end pieces even though I could (the kids would not eat them). I let the end pieces sit on my counter and dry up and then I put them through the food processor to make healthy bread crumbs for pork schnitzel recipe.

This sprouted grain bread is expensive – $5.79 a loaf (I have to learn how to make my own bread!). So when they come home with their lunch sandwich half eaten I feel bad for having to compost it. If I put it back in the fridge they will not have any desire to eat it later and then it just sits there and spoils.

Yesterday my youngest daughter came home and brought back a half a sandwich. When I was cleaning up the kitchen after supper I looked at it and thinking to myself “should I eat it or not?”.

Eat it Argument:

• The sprouted organic grain and the organic cheese have some good quality vitamins and minerals in it. I would not go and open up a bottle of vitamins and just dump them in the garbage. So I should not throw out quality food.
• This organic food is expensive.

Do Not Eat it Argument:

• The sprouted grain bread has carbohydrates that will feed my Candida Yeast.
• The bread will give me cravings even though I am full after eating dinner.
• Psychologically I have given myself permission to eat other foods that are high carb and high sugar.

In the end I ate the leftover sandwich. It was after dinner so I was not hungry. I just ate it to not waste good quality food. I also did end up eating other foods that are not so good for me.

When you are trying to lose weight and feed a family it is very difficult to make decisions like this.

What would you do?

(maybe I need a puppy dog??)

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