Eating healthily does not necessarily mean turning over great and delicious foods. Today’s special guest proves that healthy eating could just be as flavorful as the day to day processed foods we eat. What is more, it is life-changing. Carrie Miller sits down with Patricia Greer of Pat Greer’s Kitchen—the hotspot for clean, organic foods for healthy eating. In this episode, Pat shares with us the beginning of how she changed her diet and life for the better. Giving away some healthy advice, she talks about the ingredients she puts into her foods along with the delectable products that they produce. Pat also explains how our body responds to clean, organic, and healthy foods and how they work as medicine for illnesses. Change your life by choosing clean and healthy eating. Let Pat guide you in this conversation.
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Patricia Greer: Change Your Life With Clean And Healthy Eating
What better way to start this day but with a special guest who gives a piece of her heart away in every raw food dish she prepares. Her kitchen is the hotspot for clean, organic foods for healthy eating to keep our brains moving and grooving. She started the city’s oldest organic co-op many years ago. She’s fed the city’s professional soccer team, caters to many medical professionals and generously feeds the homeless. Welcome to the show, Pat Greer.
Thank you so much for having me here, Carrie. I’m happy to be here with you.
I’m excited you’re here. Pat, I hear you grew up in North Texas with fried chicken and okra, cornbread, black eyed peas, collard greens drenched with all that lovely bacon fat. You’ve been quoted saying, “I didn’t even know what fresh spinach tasted like until I was in my twenties.” When did you change your diet and why?
I probably changed my diet when I first had fresh spinach. It wasn’t an instant thing. I think it was a gradual pace. My oldest daughter got into organic foods before her first pregnancy, took a permaculture class, and everything took a direction from there. About that time, I’d gotten into a raw food diet and it all started coming together, that big ball that rolls down the hill.
Your mama had Alzheimer’s or something. She might’ve been misdiagnosed.
Possibly. She was diagnosed in the ‘80s and I had her undiagnosed. I said, “Take it off. Get her off of there. I don’t believe it and we’re going to move on from here.”
How did you take action? Was it food and nutrition food?
She was in Dallas where I grew up in and I was in Houston, so I had to go back and forth and deal with her still being able to drive. I would make food every time I’d go up enough for 4 or 5 days and then I’d go back up and make more food. That worked until she stopped eating anything except those little cinnamon rolls, which you get 3 or 10 for $1 or something.
Did a doctor recommend that? Did you research yourself?
No. Some things have always made sense to me. I made lots of greens, took the sugar out and stopped using bacon fat. I don’t even remember when. I encouraged her with the things that I knew she’d like to eat and made them healthier. My dad too. She had a rapid decline when my dad passed away.
I know that you’re an incredible chef and you work wonders in that kitchen. Let’s talk a little bit about the ingredients you put into your foods that you and your awesome staff prepare.
We started with organic crackers, which are dehydrated crackers. It’s flax seeds and leftover produce from the co-op until we got into national distribution. We’re more specific about our ingredients but always maintaine...