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I Eat what I am
Author: velveeta jones    Date: 04/04/2010 13:36:34

I am surrounded by mountains of Easter... candy. Chocolate bunnies, dark, milk and even white, organic chocolate eggs wrapped in foil, very non-orgainic M&M's in pastel colors, jelly beans, Pez. Pez? Well, at least there are no peeps.

I have been trying to come up with a plan for eating better. Holidays just completely throw me off. Just when it seems I have a good plan, along comes Christmas or Halloween or Valentines day. And since, as we've learned from yesterday's blog, that even those Holy Days that used to be about something important (see TriSec's previous blog) now get swallowed up in candy, plastic decorations, funny hats that get worn once a year and junky junk that will end up in a land fill as fast as you can say "Made in China".


So, to be clear, I am blaming the Holidays for the demise in my eating routines.

All I want is to pay more attention to what I eat, I'm not so concerned about how often I do it, after all, you're supposed to eat 5 meals a day (3 regular meals and 2 healthy snacks). I seem to have no problem with the five meals, its just that a Holiday will roll around and my planned snack of chopped carrots with a black bean hummus will turn into 2 cupcakes with bunny ears and a handful of jelly bellys.

As Americans we are consumed by commercialism. Here is a true story: Friday I picked up my foster daughter from school to take her to buy a swim suit, she was hungry. "Can we stop at McDonalds?" she asks. She knows that I loathe the place. I believe in McDonalds right to exist, just not to torture us with clowns, dancing food, and HGH in their bady treated butchered animals. What she got was a double cheese burger, made out of two hamburger patties, two slices of cheese, bun, ketchup, pickles, onion. What she really got was about 78 ingredients including ammonia which is sprayed on the meat in order to make it "safe for human consumption". WHAT?

Here is what McD's has to say about it:

We use 100 percent USDA-inspected beef in our hamburger patties, and we don't add any ammonia. McDonald's food safety and quality assurance standards are among the highest in the industry, and meet or exceed government requirements. Ammonia may be used by our suppliers as an aid to kill harmful bacteria. This process is approved by the USDA and helps to ensure safe, quality food. Additionally, ammonia is a basic building block of protein and occurs naturally in both meat and fish. We're continuously working with our suppliers and local, state and federal agencies to ensure our standards are rigorously maintained and, more importantly, we serve safe, high quality products to our customers. January 2010


Of course it's not just McDonalds, I don't want to pick on them, even though they started this insanity. All the other fast food chains do it as well.

Anyway, off we drove in the car with a child eating her double patty death burger and guess what movie she just saw in school? SuperSize Me. Well, you could have knocked me over with a flabby chemical soaked pickle. Now, all of a sudden she's looking hard at the grease coming out of the .......... um, "food" and she is now thinking about becoming a vegetarian. She keeps talking about how horrible it is, yet she keeps eating it! Such is the way that we have become addicted to the additives in the food, in my opinion.

I told her that if she really wants to eat burgers, she should get a cow, raise it herself, then butcher it (or have it butchered) and cook her own hamburger. This was once how "Real Americans" (nod to Sarah Palin) got there meat. She didn't cotton to that idea.

Previously, we'd had a conversation about how Chicken McNuggets are made. She almost puked when I told her, then, (because she really doesn't believe anything I say) some guy on the TV machine told her:



Yet, she still eats them! Insanity? YES!

By the way, the same could be said for our vegetables which have become a source for patent crazy corps like Monsanto to go all Frankenstein on.

My goals will continue now that the Easter candy is almost gone:
Try to buy local meat (for the child, even though I don't eat it) that doesn't use HGH and other nastiness.
Plant my own.
Buy organic and local fruits and veggies.
Stay away from processed foods (most frozen foods).
Stay away from refined foods as much as possible. (HFCS, sugar, etc)
Stay away from unnecessary bad carbs like bunny shaped cupcakes, at least until the next Holiday (Arbor day)?
Well, I am off to go plant my pole beans today. Organic.

If you're near this guys Deli, go give him the thumbs up:


 

4 comments (Latest Comment: 04/04/2010 19:54:07 by BobR)
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