Let me start by saying how hilarious and unlikely it is that I would be sharing a chicken broth recipe online. Or any recipe, for that matter! My mother did not like to cook. When I left home, she gave me a cookbook called, The I Hate to Cook Book. Seriously. Like many of us who grew up in the seventies and eighties, I was raised on pre-packaged meals and high fructose corn syrup with the occasional canned vegetable.

I’ll tell the story of my transformation to eating real, nutritious food in a separate post (or posts!), because it’s a bit of a long one. For now, suffice it to say that shopping for food and preparing food for myself and my family has become a huge part of who I am as a person and as a parent. Our culture doesn’t do us any favors where eating healthy is concerned. If we want to change our familys’ health for the better, we have to be committed to swimming against the stream and taking control of the food we eat.