Today is 350 day...a call to action for people around the globe to demand that world leaders to take real action to reduce the carbon in our climate. There are amazing things happening around the globe.
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Saturday, October 24, 2009
Friday, October 16, 2009
How do you eat real food?
So my Mom says..."Good luck with that food thing..what ever it is you're doing." So what are we doing?
I'm doing my best to follow some of Pollen's advice about eating real food.
1. Don't buy anything your great grand mother wouldn't recognize as food. Pollen uses Go Gurt as an example. What would your great grandmother say " Is this food or toothpaste?"
2. Don't buy food if you don't recognized the ingredients ( or if the list of ingredients is over 5). Take a look at what is in Go Gurt sometime (it's hard to tell it's supposed to be yogurt)
3. Don't buy food with health claims on the package....because stuff in packages tends to be processed. And processed food tends to be changed to fit the health claim du jour. So a food will be "Low Fat" one month and then changed to "No Transfat" the next. Is that same food any healthier?
Our top two read food strategies ( as opposed to food like substances) has meant
1. Not buying prepared food in packages. We made the exception for Mac and Cheese ( though we read the labels on Annie's and Simply Organic and the list was short and recognizable)
2. Buying most of our food from Farmer's Markets and the outer aisle at the grocery store ( that's where the produce, meat, frozen veggies are) (this is another Pollen tip)
I'm doing my best to follow some of Pollen's advice about eating real food.
1. Don't buy anything your great grand mother wouldn't recognize as food. Pollen uses Go Gurt as an example. What would your great grandmother say " Is this food or toothpaste?"
2. Don't buy food if you don't recognized the ingredients ( or if the list of ingredients is over 5). Take a look at what is in Go Gurt sometime (it's hard to tell it's supposed to be yogurt)
3. Don't buy food with health claims on the package....because stuff in packages tends to be processed. And processed food tends to be changed to fit the health claim du jour. So a food will be "Low Fat" one month and then changed to "No Transfat" the next. Is that same food any healthier?
Our top two read food strategies ( as opposed to food like substances) has meant
1. Not buying prepared food in packages. We made the exception for Mac and Cheese ( though we read the labels on Annie's and Simply Organic and the list was short and recognizable)
2. Buying most of our food from Farmer's Markets and the outer aisle at the grocery store ( that's where the produce, meat, frozen veggies are) (this is another Pollen tip)
Monday, October 12, 2009
Our beloved Dexter
Here is why we haven't been blogging about food. The boys' pet rat Dexter got a brain tumor. She wasn't able to stay upright ( she fell to the left) and couldn't use her left front paw. She would just sit in her cage because it was so hard to move around. We made the very difficult decision to put her to sleep. It was a very sad day for all of us. She is buried now ( with two M and Ms....a rat's dream) in our backyard next to her sister Lyra. It is hard to lose someone you love.
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
October is about Eating!
Our focus this month is on ethical eating. I read Michel Pollen's book "In Defense of Food" and got to hear him speak at the end of September ( along with 7000 others!) There was an article in the Isthmus too.
To sum up, straight from Pollen,
To sum up, straight from Pollen,
- Eat Food
- Not too Much
- Mostly Plants
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