Organic Chili Stuffed Green Pepper

This is really simple. I love simple recipes when I've worked all day and don't have a lot of time to cook in the evening. So, last night I took my own homemade organic chili straight from the refrigerator and made stuffed peppers with it. Took very little effort and I could just hang out while they were baking.

CHILI STUFFED GREEN PEPPERS

One large organic green pepper per person, topped and seeded.

Organic chili soup (your favorite variety and recipe, just don't use canned, chemical filled processed chili! Unhealthy and disgusting.)

Shredded cheese (1 tablespoon per pepper)

Chopped green onion, sliced olives, tomatoes, other veggies of your liking for garnish.

Organic tortilla chips**

Parboil the peppers for 5 minutes in boiling water. Put them in a deep baking dish (or individual large ramekins) and fill with cold chili. Top with 1 tablespoon of shredded cheese (I used raw cheddar) and bake in a 350 degree oven for 30 minutes. Top with chopped veggies and serve with organic tortilla chips. Delicious!!

**Organic tortilla chips - I never, ever (although I used to) eat tortilla chips made from processed ingredients because they're full of chemicals, unhealthy fats, they're addictive and because when I start eating them I can't stop!! However, I've found that with organic chips, I can stop with one serving (and I do pay attention to the serving size). They don't haunt me, they don't call to me from the cupboard and there are times I even forget I have them and they go stale. But, if they don't work that way for you, don't eat them. They really aren't worth it and this is good all on its own without the chips!

Food Addiction or Chemical Addiction

Processed food is addictive. I believe that with everything I know. I know that I can eat a big stack of pancakes made with processed flour and refined sugar and 20 minutes later I'm thinking of the next thing I can find to eat and that even though I'm uncomfortably stuffed, I still want to eat and I will do that all day. I'm familiar enough with addiction to know that I'm not hungry, I'm CRAVING. This is the behavior of an addict. The food giants do this intentionally. They don't care about your health but they do want your money. Therefore, the more you crave, the more you give into it, the more money you put into their pockets. If you  look at people in this country who are not just a few pounds overweight, they're obese by hundreds of pounds and to the point of being disabled, there is something wrong with our food supply. It's being being manipulated and they have no intention of stopping.

For years I threw money at losing weight the way the food and diet industry told me was the way and snake-oiled me into believing was the answer. Well, not only was it not the answer, I wound up fatter and broker and sicker than before. One day it hit me that the only "diet" (which ISN'T a diet at all) is that the earth makes absolutely everything we need to live a healthy life without an obesity issue. Once I started eating food that comes only from the earth, the weight just started coming off on its own, the stress surrounding food and weight disappeared, the guilt disappeared, my energy came back 10 fold on top of not spending my money on food that is basically poison and it just makes sense.

This is not a diet, it's a way of life. Yes, you have to give up processed food. Yes, you have to cook or find a food supply that you know isn't processed. No, you don't have to suffer. When you eat what the earth provides (and not the garbage the food giants would prefer you buy) your body knows when to stop eating. When you give it the nutrients it needs with REAL FOOD, you don't overeat unless you force yourself to.  They say it takes three weeks to break a habit. Perhaps. But if you will take three days to get out of the junk, go cold turkey, get it out of your system, you'll feel better than you have in years. What have you got to lose? Oh, that's right - excess weight, stress from dieting and failing, feeling lousy, giving your money to charlatans...those things. I don't miss even one of those.

IF THE EARTH DOESN'T MAKE IT, DON'T EAT IT!