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In our house vitamins and minerals were something that came in pill form and were kept in a bottle on the kitchen counter, which incidentally we rarely opened.

These mysterious elements were never directly associated with the food we ate.  This lack of association was I am sure unintentional but probably very accurate in reality for my mother came from a generation that first off overcooked every vegetable in the house and second was the first generation to serve her family packaged, preprocessed foods like hamburger helper and TV dinners.

I was an adult living away from home before I ever tasted fresh picked peas.  We ate canned peas, green beans and corn.  I never saw anything but iceberg lettuce in our house.  On the rare occasions that fresh vegetables did grace our tables they were boiled until they had no color or nutritional value left in them.

So like I said, I was told “take your vitamins” not eat them.

DailyBread365 not only explains the micro-components at work in our meals but also provides menus and recipe suggestions to help us make the transition to a more wholesome lifestyle.