Asking for help...

We spent the evening driving around North Vancouver to go to local businesses to see if they would donate anything for the fundraiser I'm doing.  I'm looking for anything they can donate for a raffle that will be done at the car wash/bottle drive for Chelsea next weekend (you can read about Chelsea here and watch her story in the news here).  We hit up about 20 places including Restaurants, pubs, a spa and Canadian Tire asking for anything they can donate to us.  We are going to do a minimum $5 donation for a car wash with the option of donating more to get tickets in our raffle ($10 = 3 tix, $15 = 5 tix and $20 = 10 tix).  I'm hoping to raise around $10,000 for Chelsea and her family through this event and to be honest, I'm getting a little stressed out over the whole thing.  It's turned into a pretty big event with news teams planning to be there, newspapers advertising for the event and even the amount of people on Facebook getting involved - it's pretty overwhelming.  If there is anyone out there reading this that wants to volunteer time or donate anything, please get in contact with me, it would be greatly appreciated. =)

Now onto some food!

Since we left as soon as we got home from work today, we ate on the run.  Jeff ate Burger King (yuck) and I ate Subway.  My sandwich had no cheese (it's processed), no meat (I'm a vegetarian), no salt (It's in everything, why add more), and a bunch of veggies.  I know these veggies were picked awhile ago and have no nutrition because I'm already hungry.  I can eat a fresh salad with no bread or anything BUT veggies and be full for 6-7 hours, but the Subway left me feeling hungry an hour after I ate it.  This, to me, is the same as eating McDonalds.  I just got NOTHING but empty calories and zero vitamins from my "healthy choice" dinner and that means Subway is now banned.

It's funny how you don't notice these things until you start paying attention.  I've started paying attention to my body, my moods and how food makes me feel. 

After my post yesterday about the food that the world throws away I need to make some serious changes to what I eat and where I get it from.  The most difficult thing about wanting to do this is Jeff.  He couldn't care less about any of this and that is effecting the respect that I have for him.  How can he listen to the things that I'm telling him and still not care about anyone or anything but himself?  I get that bacon tastes good, but do you know what goes into that bacon you insist on eating?  Preservatives.  Do you know how that pig was raised?  How he/she was treated?  What he/she was fed?  What penicillin they gave him/her?  How he/she was killed?  How scared he/she was when he/she was killed?  How can you care so little about your body and health and care so little about the life that you are eating?  I just can't stomach a person that is given this information and still only cares about them self.

I want to plant a garden and have chickens in my backyard so I can have fresh eggs, I want to shop at local farmers markets and use home made products.  I didn't realize how hard it would be to share a life with someone that doesn't.