I’ve had the best garden ever this year so I am learning alot about canning. It has been so much fun. Love to see the cupboards filling up with home grown veggies for the long winter ahead. I want to start walking alot more then I do now.

If I turn on the radio before my husband turns on the TV we do pretty good. He likes the radio but never thinks about turning it on…TV is the first thing he thinks about. I have to push him to get him to move around after he injured himself several years ago. Otherwise he would just sit and I am not about to let that happen!

I also have a small vegetable garden: tomatoes, cabbage, eggplant and cilantro. Since the big garden tractor is broken, I have been mowing 2 acres with a push mower. Great exercise.

We have a family game night every couple of months and although the younger ones in my family enjoy their video games and Wii the older ones in the family have turned the kids on to good old fashion board games like Life, Clue and Cranium. The kids love the games. This weekend we had a cook out in the back yard and played croquet…the kids love the competitive nature of the game and we all enjoyed the time together.

I walk and run all the time. I don’t even have a TV to turn on so I don’t have to even think about turning it on!

I walk every where I can. I love being outdoors. I have made an effort to leaave the car in the garage two days a week. Instead of going to the gym on those days I walk my neighborhood

Every year we plant a garden and this year we even expanded to include some fruit trees. We usually plant a lot of extra veggies in our garden, so I can can them and we can eat them all winter long. I make my own bread to avoid all of the extra preservatives in store bought bread. My kids are only able to watch tv for one hour a day, usually they don’t even watch that much, after 30 minutes they usually want to go play.

Going camping with the family to get away from the tv and the constant running. Going to spend time playing games, hiking, and time around the campfire with them. Also not going out to eat as much and have the garden planted.

Join a community garden or start one your self if you don’t have one in your town. That way you can share new recipes, share garden tricks, and meet new friends. I don’t have a place to garden at my apartment. But, in a way I’m lucky! I have been introduced to world of new friends I might have never meant.

We have a garden in the back yard that produces alot of wonderful veggies. I can’t wait to be able to grow from seeds again when the season gets closer. With this new year, I have vowed to myself to get alot of wonderfully healthy recipes to add to my cookbook that I started 2 years ago, yet didn’t cook many of them. So I reviewed the recipes in it, & added new ones & removed the ones that I never made. I’m off to a great start this year. We don’t eat out or eat packaged foods.

I still have fresh herbs in the garden. Tonight I’m making baked eggs with rosemary, thyme, and parsley. YUM! It just tastes better knowing that it’s from my garden!

I’ve basically given up on watching TV. I enjoy living a positive lifestyle, and TV can certainly encourage the opposite. I honestly watch TV less than 45 minutes per day. There are far more important things to do!

I hope more people discover (or rediscover) vegetable gardening. What a great way to eat healthy organic food! Not only that, but getting outside and working in the garden is a big stress-reducer. Sure, sometimes the work is just exhausting but it feels great to have accomplished something worthwhile as opposed to just working out at a gym. If you get the kids involved it really puts them in touch with nature and teaches them so much about the food we eat and how plants grow.
I encourage anyone to try it. Start small. Grow a few “easy” veggies you enjoy (like maybe tomatoes or zucchini) then add more the next year. Also, growing a few types of flowers is rewarding. I loved having a vase of flowers from my garden filled all summer!

yum!!

I have a wonderful, enclosed front porch. This spring I started patio plants! The porch gets sun filtered through the screens, no bugs! You should see my bell peppers and tomatoes!!!!

I’ve been eating out of my garden all summer. Walking or jogging for short trips of light items from the store or to pick up my mail from the post office. have cooked mostly all summer.

Today I will cook up some chicken and pasta instead of eating frozen food. I’m also going to limit my TV to 1 hour a day and my daughters to a half and hour

We have a terrific garden and I shredded up some zucchini today to freeze for fresh zucchini bread this winter!

We yearly plant a garden, but have recently been simply not turning the television on when we come home. I noticed last night that the children are getting along a lot better and we are able to do more around the house. I