How it all began:

My husband and I enjoy documentaries and we recently watched "Forks Over Knives". The movie itself was fairly dry but we did find some very interesting facts that made us think.  We have always been meat eaters and enjoyed a "typical" American diet. We have always tried to feed our family healthy foods but found that we could do better.We happened to watch it at just the right time when we needed a change in our eating habits. My husband suggested that we give it a go. I agreed to try it for one month. This specific diet from the movie/book includes the following: only plant-based, whole foods.  This means no animal products, including diary, no processed foods of any kind. We found that some of this was a little unrealistic for our family so we chose to do the following: remove all meat, significantly reduce dairy intake, do our best to remove all processed foods, significantly reduce sugar intake and remove anything with high fructose corn syrup.  Not too bad, right?  We'll see...