FOOD VIGILANTE

Have I mentioned my least favorite restaurant?

Yep, McCrap, and all the other fast food eateries wrapped in different packages.

The Duchess and I are coming up on our third week of gardening and I must say that I am so impatient waiting fot the first shoot yo break through the Earth’s surface. With the anticipation of an edible yard I am reminded of a eating rule which I love.

If it doesn’t rot, don’t eat it.

This is a very simple eating rule to live by and just this idea alone can help you avoid so many of the additives and preservatives so prevalent in our foods these days. If your cupboards are full of stuff that can stand up to unusually long periods of time without changing or going bad, than it is likely you shouldn’t be eating it. There are, of course, some exceptions like spices, vinegars, and some canned goods.

So many people complain about the space they have available in their freezer, refrigerator and cupboards. We have become obsessed with storing up and buying in bulk. Also, as food storage space becomes bigger, counters become smaller. No need for a lot of counter space if everything goes directly from storage to the oven. Our diets have become full of foods that just don’t go bad. This is good for the grocery stores, they can stock more and more products for longer periods of time and use less manpower to keep the shelves stocked. Look how insanley big grocery stores have gotten!

We are not a business, we are living, breathing animals. Profitability, convenience and stability are great ideas to make money, but lousy ideas to put in our mouths. I came across some interesting ariticles about McCrap’s food that they are shoving down the world’s throats.

Here is the first article, this is too funny (and scary). It is a true indication that we should never eat fast food.

Here is the second article.

The “food” that the fast-eddies provide are ruining a good portion of our population. The fats and sugars in the over preserved, plastic food make the meal less nutrition than the paper in which it’s wrapped.

We spend a good portion of early parenting chasing our young children all around and saving the day time and time again as we thwart little Todd and Sally from stuffing everything under the son in their mouth’s. Then we load them in the car and WILLINGLY and knowingly let them chew on this un-nutritional, highly fattening, plastic food. Yet we stop them from putting the plastic toy from the meal in their mouths. How can you tell the difference between the plastic toy and a plastic burger anyway?

Maybe if hands of bananas or fresh greenbeans came with a toy, we would not be a nation overweight.

Slow down,

FV