"[I]n our time, cooking from scratch and growing any of your own food qualify as subversive acts."
- From Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food, which is definitely the best book I have read in a long time. I highly encourage you all to read it. In the meantime, his tenets on healthy eating:
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Eat food, mostly plants, not too much. )
Corn syrup isn't a common ingredient over here, thank goodness. I have heard it's very, very hard to avoid in foods in North America. I didn't even know what it was until I started reading about glycaemic index, to reduce my diabetes risk.
We have a small garden, though it's mostly for foods that are hard to get in good quality, and also tomatoes. Pretty much everyone I know grows tomatoes, they're so easy and they're so much better than commercially grown tomatoes. Oh, God, there's nothing like a tomato that you just picked off the vine. It's like that bit in the Last Battle, when they eat the Narnian fruit, so good. (I wish mine would grow! It's been so cold until today.)
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