Food For Thought - The Healthy Kind

[dependonyou]

So a friend's post made me check out a new website. I'm a foodie, or I pretend to be, and I love eating and cooking... when I feel up to it. But I know, for a fact, that I don't get enough veggies, and I don't think I eat any fruit whatsoever! I'm doing my body an injustice, but I'm at least trying to be good

Comments

[crystella74]

This post cracks me up!!!

Mostly because I'm the polar opposite!

In fact, I just wrote an entry about it - how I don't think I could EVER get enough veggies!!!

:)

[dependonyou]

You are awesome for that. ::just read it:: Honestly, if I could get away with it, and had better access to fresh veggies, I'd probably be pretty darn similar. Sometimes I'll just have lima beans and yellow squash and that will be my dinner. XD

[crystella74]

GLORIOUS dinner indeed!

Earlier in the week, I had black beans, corn, and rice all steamed together, and then "warmed" with a little touch of bbq sauce...it was fantastic!

[dependonyou]

Oh man that sounds good...

[isil_elen]

o.o He sounds like Jan. She'll only eat certain things...the right brand of chicken nuggets, the right brand of a specific flavor of soup, fried chicken from Publix...and she's got more stubbornness than Clay and I have, so we don't even try to argue. We just shrug. If she wants to not eat because there's nothing there, that's her business.

[sablecurse]

I'm also extremely picky about food, though apparently not so much as Joel. The only veggies I'll eat are corn, peas and carrots (in various styles). I think it's something to do with the amount of tastebuds a person has that determines how selective they are about food. I think the more they have, the more selective they are.

My primary food groups are:
Meat
Grains (mostly in cereal form)
Junk food

It also may be due to growing up in a house always in a tight financial spot. Thus we got the cheap kinds of foods and rarely fruits and veggies since they were so damned expensive. Fruits I'm better about, but I could never stand vegetables in general.

[dependonyou]

Picky seems to actually be the norm, and I don't often find people who are garbage disposals like I am. XD

I think, to Joel, it's about both taste and texture. Not sure about the taste buds thing, but I could totally understand it, since a good chunk of mine always look like they're missing because of the geographical tongue thing...

See, financially, if you go to a farmers market or something, veggies are EASY to get a hold of, and sometimes fruit. I could live on a cheap veggie only diet pretty easily, well, veggies and various starches (rice, pasta, etc.). To me, those are the 'cheap' foods. Meats are, well, terribly expensive... and don't get me started on junk food. ::laughs::

[sablecurse]

We had no local farmer's market. Also, when I mean a tight budget, I mean that no meal for my brother and me combined should be over $3-4. Therefore, we mostly grew up on Hamburger Helper, spagetti, and the like for dinner. For lunch, a meat+condiment sandwich and a baggie of chips were the norm...and when I say meat I mean cheapo bologna 98% of the time.

[dependonyou]

This is true, but you'd be really surprised how much you can do for really, really, really cheap. XD But yes, I know what you're saying. Cheapo meat is still meat, and I see how that can help. Hamburger helper doesn't make any sense to me. Wy spend the extra money on seasoning + pasta that you have to add ground beef to anyway, when you can just buy noodles, ground beef, and season it yourself for cheaper and have it last longer because you make more? Spaghetti is always a good choice, but I'm used to it having veggies in there to be more filling (onions, maybe green peppers, and for a non-veggie, hard boiled eggs), along with the ground beef, meatballs, italian sausage, or whatever else you decide to put in for filler meat.

Baggie of chips? Did your parents buy the little individual baggs, that sell for like 50 cents each, or did they buy a big bag and portion them out into ziplock baggies for the week?