I work nights and most often am not home for a proper home cooked meal, so I would often succumb to temptation and just get fast food. But now I'm at the point where I'm just sick of it. Eating it makes you sick and I'm against just about every facet of the fast food business model.
Too many people don't bother to think that even though they can get a double cheeseburger for $1 (what a deal, right?) that there are just so many hidden costs. The fast food model supports poor health, factory farms, pollution, non living wages, the list goes on. But I'm not here to rip on fast food all day. We all know that it kinda sucks.
So what I'm doing is trying to change my personal food consumption rules, some of my own making, some coming from ideas I have read about. Credit goes to Micheal Pollan, who has written a few books about food and came up with some of them.
-Eliminate corn syrup completely. Cut down on white sugar. Use honey and maple syrup as needed. Fresh fruit is OK in moderation.
-Stick mostly to food found in the outer perimeters of the grocery store. Produce, fresh dairy, meats, and baked goods. Basically foods that are not long term shelf stable.
-Don't eat foods with ingredients a third grader can't pronounce or you wouldn't find in the average pantry.
-Cut down on meat consumption. Americans eat too much meat. Meat that I do eat needs to be local and preferably pastured.
-Stop eating things that come from the other side of the globe. As great as it is to never have anything out of season, eating grapes from Chile in January isn't practical.
-Cut the fried foods. The quality of most restaurant frying oil is suspect. (After a round of beers all bets are off with this rule!)
-One of my favorite rules from Micheal Pollan, "don't fuel yourself up at the same place as your car, and real food doesn't come through a car window"
I could go on, but that's the just of it. I'm not going to preach to someone what they should and shouldn't eat, I just wish that more people would put some thought into it before shoveling the garbage into themselves that they do. Why give hard earned dollars to a company that makes food with absolutely NO nutritional value?
Too many people don't bother to think that even though they can get a double cheeseburger for $1 (what a deal, right?) that there are just so many hidden costs. The fast food model supports poor health, factory farms, pollution, non living wages, the list goes on. But I'm not here to rip on fast food all day. We all know that it kinda sucks.
So what I'm doing is trying to change my personal food consumption rules, some of my own making, some coming from ideas I have read about. Credit goes to Micheal Pollan, who has written a few books about food and came up with some of them.
-Eliminate corn syrup completely. Cut down on white sugar. Use honey and maple syrup as needed. Fresh fruit is OK in moderation.
-Stick mostly to food found in the outer perimeters of the grocery store. Produce, fresh dairy, meats, and baked goods. Basically foods that are not long term shelf stable.
-Don't eat foods with ingredients a third grader can't pronounce or you wouldn't find in the average pantry.
-Cut down on meat consumption. Americans eat too much meat. Meat that I do eat needs to be local and preferably pastured.
-Stop eating things that come from the other side of the globe. As great as it is to never have anything out of season, eating grapes from Chile in January isn't practical.
-Cut the fried foods. The quality of most restaurant frying oil is suspect. (After a round of beers all bets are off with this rule!)
-One of my favorite rules from Micheal Pollan, "don't fuel yourself up at the same place as your car, and real food doesn't come through a car window"
I could go on, but that's the just of it. I'm not going to preach to someone what they should and shouldn't eat, I just wish that more people would put some thought into it before shoveling the garbage into themselves that they do. Why give hard earned dollars to a company that makes food with absolutely NO nutritional value?
