“Don’t eat anything your great grandmother wouldn’t recognize as food”. – Michael Pollan
I just read the book “Eating Animals” and am now watching the author of another great book “Omnivore’s Dilemma” on Oprah. He just wrote a new book called “Food Rules” (on my hold list at the library!)and I can’t wait to read it. There is also a new documentary called “Food Inc.” that I can’t wait to see.
The point is not vegetarianism, we all know how I feel about that. I’m not into prairie skirts, turquoise jewelry, or having my skin glow a permanent state of orange. I like my meat. But I’m proud that I am careful about the meat I do buy. I am careful about buying antibiotic free and hormone free meat, and don’t buy chicken that has water (or “juices”) added. I support local farmers as much as possible and I say a silent prayer that this animal that gave his life for my family’s sustenance had a decent life and actually saw the sun now and then and his feet actually touched the earth. Most don’t.
Oprah says that most Americans eat fast food 4 times a week, we’re no where near that at maybe once every 2-3 weeks. We never eat McDonald’s and even when we do eat out, we make pretty good choices. Ever since I lost 60+ pounds a few years ago and started paying attention to my diabetes I have totally changed how I eat and made my family follow right along.
We of course don’t eat meat, fruit, vegetables and whole grains for every meal and snack but we eat those kinds of things more than most people and yes (gasp) we *make* Emma eat it too. She doesn’t have to eat all her dinner but she does have to give all the green stuff a pretty good attempt. She makes good food choices when left to her own devices, and will frequently choose an apple over something with empty calories. She never drinks soda and will frequently walk around with a cup of plain old water.
I guess I don’t really have a point except to say that reading and watching this stuff lately makes me feel pretty good about what I choose to feed my family, even if it’s not the cheapest thing. And it makes me feel like I’m doing something right for a change.
(By the way.. (courtesy of daughter Amanda) – spray cheese is one molecule away from being actual “plastic. You’re welcome.)
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Work is going along swimmingly and I really enjoy the job. Yes people are angry. Yes people want everything for nothing. And yes, I get yelled at. A lot. But the nice thing is that I make most of those people happy by the time the call is over. That’s a very “bouying” experience. And while this company is all up in your grill when you mess up, they are nearly equally as generous with their praise.
Because some new bill changes and business policies are coming in a week or so, we are all going to be on a mandatory 6 day workweeks for a while, and to be perfectly honest I don’t mind a bit. I never go to work begrudgingly and that’s a very nice feeling to have.
Well it’s about bedtime. Except..Mark is having to do Emma’s chores this week because she got a such a good report card and I see some stuff he missed. ::shaking my head::




