What do you eat? How do you eat?

For breakfast it is cereal (honey bunches of oats, honey nut cheerios, or blue berry morning only), oatmeal, eggs w/bacon or sausage, toast, pancakes, wausmuggles (dh german family tradition...not sure abouth the sp?), cornbread with maple syrup, yogurt, fruit, muffins or honey popovers.

Weekday lunch is supper leftovers, sandwiches usually lunchmeat, pb&j, grilled cheese or egg salad, occasionally frozen pizza or pizza rolls, rare occasion fast food, cheesy tuna casserole, ramon noodles, salmon spread on crackers, hot dogs or corn dogs.

Suppers vary but home cooked with main course and several sides of veggies-fresh or canned depending on season.

I try and make our bread and snacks are usually carrots, celery with pb, fresh or canned fruit (usually bananas or apples for fresh), yogurt or smoothies, granola bars, dill pickles or dilly beans, crackers, sardines, cheeses, on rare occasions I have chips-like chips w/ salsa, or homemade cookies or ice cream (for popsicles in summer I only buy the kind made with real fruit) if we have them. During summer kids can pick anything out of the garden and eat it anytime.

Our meat is pork from hog we butcher, chicken, and for beef it is usually hamburger or the occasional roast, fish I have tuna and salmon, occasionaly will buy fried catfish from deli or crappy if my bro gives us some fillets. I would like to eat more fish but not a very good selection of fish at store here in imo and I don't like fish that tastes fishy.

We always have three meals a day and usually kids have two small snacks a day.

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guess i dont understand the comment about eating according to God's food laws in the Bible no dead hog please enighten me

guess i dont understand the comment about eating according to God's food laws in the Bible no dead hog please enighten me

Well - this probably belongs in a separate thread, but ---
God set down his Laws concerning Food and other behavior from the outset. HE reenforced these Laws at Mount Siani. Many of the things people eat today are not on the "clean" list. There are those that choose to believe the Law was changed with the Second Covenent (Jesus), but the food Laws did not. It all boils down to a personal choice between your tastebuds or your God. Your milage may vary.

Wasn't Jesus the FIRST covenant? The covenant of mercy and grace was certainly extended to Abraham, who met Christ in the flesh of Melchizidek. The priesthood of Levi (the law) paid tithes to Christ while in the loins of Abraham as he paid tithes to the Prince of Salem. Obviously Abraham was not saved by the Law of Moses, as he was before Moses. Abraham was not saved by what he ate or didn't eat, he was saved by faith and grace. He is to be the father of true faith and did the works of faith (to hear and to believe and to obey the Word of God spoken to him).

The Law of Moses came because of the hardness of the hearts of the Israelites, who were to come up the mountain with Moses, but were too afraid and too disobedient. Because they were hard against God and disobedient, they had to die in the wilderness and had to try to live under the Law. However, that Law points towards Christ, as Apostle Paul showed, because it is impossible to live up to the Law of Moses, we are utterly condemned by it as sinners and must call out to God for His mercy.

I don't eat according to dietary law, but I thank my Lord daily that He has given me the power to eat and He has given me mercy and forgiveness that I am a sinner in all things. I know that it is only His mercy that I am not condemned by that Law today.

In Christ, all things are possible, all things are allowed, but ONLY in Christ, ONLY if we are led by the Spirit of God against the works of our flesh. His liberty is not for the old man, not for the flesh, but for the sons of God that are led by His Spirit into the places where God wants them to be.

Sorry, I know this is off topic. It IS however very relevant to how I eat!! I eat under the mercy of my God, who has forgiven me. Therefor, I eat in freedom and all things I eat are the flesh of Christ, who gave Himself for me.

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~ Carol