The Home/Health Cycle

I want to own a home and I love good nutrition. Sounds like s strange confession. For me it is proving difficult to provide both at the same time. We have been following a very strict budget for the past few months. Our current motivation is to save for a home. The idea of potential home ownership has altered my food purchases. I am bringing home less and less produce and more and more stuff that is cheap. (We still eat predominantly whole wheat and meals from scratch.) I look at our pocket book and feel pleased until the thoughts come of all the foods I know we should be eating. That's when the health conscious frame of mind kicks it into gear and the budgeting side takes a step back.

I am bombarded with thoughts:

How could I sacrifice the health of my family for preparing to purchase a home?

Someday we will own a home but we can't get our health back.

Lifestyle today will be our habits of tomorrow. Are these eating habits worth keeping?

How can I expect to have energy when we are eating mostly dead food?

It's decided and shortly after I am back to purchasing lots of fresh food, avoiding refined sugars and using agave nectar and honey, buying the expensive real peanut butter, flax seed oil, specialty grains, etc. I feel so invigorated by the healthy food options I place before my family. Then the money side wakes up and we start dreaming of home ownership again. I reevaluate where can I tighten up so we can save more and the whole cycle starts again.

Presently I am in a home buying frame of mind. Luckily our family is being blessed with delicious live food from friends and neighbors gardens and I am able to appease the healthy side for a little while longer while I continue to save. It would be wise to keep myself on this schedule to always cycle into home buying consciousness during harvest time.