Hello New Year.
Talked about starting a blog. Something separate than this because there are so many people I do not want to access this, but so many I want to share these things with. More general things, my little rants about life subjects.
I have a thing about food and grocery shopping. It's hard for me. I do the worst type of people watching. The most intensely judgmental type.
I remember shopping as a child and being excited about having so much food in the house. I usually got extremely happy and excited about junk food, convenience food and ice cream. I feel like I always got a candy bar and ate it on the way home.
That is also how I got so many bad eating habits and was overweight my entire life.
It felt good to know we had enough money to buy these things right then because in my house, once its gone, its gone. I wish I never had that correlation with food and money. Too this day I do the same thing. On pay day, I eat out somewhere.
So, I get what that is and what that feels like. However, it's a cycle and it needs to be broken for most families. I look around at these people who have hundreds of dollars worth of food in their cart and see no fresh vegetables, only packaged meat and garbage. All canned vegetables, food out of a box that you "just add beef" and get a "meal." Nothing that resembles food really. I think, "this is why your entire family is overweight", "this is why your children are bouncing off the walls." "Are you TRYING to poison them with some of this crap? "
So that is where it gets tricky.
That is where the cycle comes in.
This is what they were probably raised on. This is what they now know as "food."
Again, I get that.
Here is my problem with that- There is to much education out there for that to be your excuse.
You've got to know by now that Hot Pockets, are 1 million calories per pouch and lost their "food quality" in the mass production stage. You've got to understand that preservatives don't just disappear once you eat that food. Guess what, they are now in you! And if they are their so the food doesn't go bad in the package, probably sticking real strong to your stomach line. Oh, but you do not know why you cannot loose weight? It freaks me out to think of how long stuff sits in a can without rotting, a TIN CAN!
Have you ever made steamed rice? That shit takes forever. So, what exactly has been done to Minute Rice to make it cook in, just one minute? I do not want to know. It freaks me out.
There are so many things that scare me when I think that people eat them.
So, how do we break the cycle? Education? I think knowledge is power. I think that there is no excuse. Hell, we live in WA and in one of the most "clean eating" times. This information is readily available to everyone, so this cannot be an excuse anymore.
I know it seems less expensive to buy cans and boxes and pre-packed foods but it is not. It is a lot cheaper when you are not paying for that convenience. 1 can of re-fried beans (12 oz) usually cost about a dollar, I can buy a pound of pinto beans for that dollar , throw them in my crock pot and get double that 12 oz and minus the sodium, preservatives, and whatever other unknowns. Is sorting and rinsing and cooking the beans more work than cracking a can? Yes, but is it worth it? Absolutely, I usually will freeze those beans and have more than one meal from them.
So I made this blog, It of course is so far just this post, but will be adding more.
The site.
I have a thing about food and grocery shopping. It's hard for me. I do the worst type of people watching. The most intensely judgmental type.
I remember shopping as a child and being excited about having so much food in the house. I usually got extremely happy and excited about junk food, convenience food and ice cream. I feel like I always got a candy bar and ate it on the way home.
That is also how I got so many bad eating habits and was overweight my entire life.
It felt good to know we had enough money to buy these things right then because in my house, once its gone, its gone. I wish I never had that correlation with food and money. Too this day I do the same thing. On pay day, I eat out somewhere.
So, I get what that is and what that feels like. However, it's a cycle and it needs to be broken for most families. I look around at these people who have hundreds of dollars worth of food in their cart and see no fresh vegetables, only packaged meat and garbage. All canned vegetables, food out of a box that you "just add beef" and get a "meal." Nothing that resembles food really. I think, "this is why your entire family is overweight", "this is why your children are bouncing off the walls." "Are you TRYING to poison them with some of this crap? "
So that is where it gets tricky.
That is where the cycle comes in.
This is what they were probably raised on. This is what they now know as "food."
Again, I get that.
Here is my problem with that- There is to much education out there for that to be your excuse.
You've got to know by now that Hot Pockets, are 1 million calories per pouch and lost their "food quality" in the mass production stage. You've got to understand that preservatives don't just disappear once you eat that food. Guess what, they are now in you! And if they are their so the food doesn't go bad in the package, probably sticking real strong to your stomach line. Oh, but you do not know why you cannot loose weight? It freaks me out to think of how long stuff sits in a can without rotting, a TIN CAN!
Have you ever made steamed rice? That shit takes forever. So, what exactly has been done to Minute Rice to make it cook in, just one minute? I do not want to know. It freaks me out.
There are so many things that scare me when I think that people eat them.
So, how do we break the cycle? Education? I think knowledge is power. I think that there is no excuse. Hell, we live in WA and in one of the most "clean eating" times. This information is readily available to everyone, so this cannot be an excuse anymore.
I know it seems less expensive to buy cans and boxes and pre-packed foods but it is not. It is a lot cheaper when you are not paying for that convenience. 1 can of re-fried beans (12 oz) usually cost about a dollar, I can buy a pound of pinto beans for that dollar , throw them in my crock pot and get double that 12 oz and minus the sodium, preservatives, and whatever other unknowns. Is sorting and rinsing and cooking the beans more work than cracking a can? Yes, but is it worth it? Absolutely, I usually will freeze those beans and have more than one meal from them.
So I made this blog, It of course is so far just this post, but will be adding more.
The site.