Over the weekend my husband and I visited beautiful VA. I love the fresh air and peace from the landscape in VA. It is quite a trek down south and on the way we stopped for gas. I decided to look around at the labels on the food available to the public.
I picked up a bag and could hardly pronounce a lot of the ingredients not to mention the list went on forever and ever. All the drinks except bottled water had a whole lot of other ingredients I didn’t want to ingest and a lot of them had dye involved. I wouldn’t even drink the bottled water because when I have tasted water that has been in plastic…I taste the plastic. I looked at the ingredients in candy, chips and other snacks…sodium nitrite, BHT, BHA…What? I only found ONE bag that had only three ingredients and I could read them all…only one.
When we left the store my heart was being tugged. I talked to Kyle and he said the gas station isn’t really a food place. I said to him that it is a huge food ‘place’. People stop all the time and pick up a snack. And yes there were bananas and I saw some apples but I am sure they were not grown in a beautiful field with no chemical sprays and genetically modified seeds. So who do we talk to? Where do we start in making fast food restaurants on the side of the highway that consist of healthy whole foods? Where do we start in telling the entire world Please NO SODA. Where do we begin?
Step by step we can grow…step by step:}
We watched this documentary in VA. It was a perfect fit to how I was feeling.
Food Matters Website
Menu of the Week
Chop Suey with rice noodles
Tomatoes, spinach and kalamata olive sauce over quinoa pasta
Kuzu stew
Crispy tofu over mesclun greens topped with miso vinaigrette
Home made vegan pizza with my special tomato sauce:} YUMMM
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Killer at Large
I watched this on netflix instant play…
I believe we need to make our own choices about food. I also believe that if you are unaware of your choices its hard to make the right ones. The way soda, sugar cereals and fast food are presented to the public, would make one assume that it was in fact food. The way “fake food” is presented to children is really a disservice to our human race. Commercials and advertisements want children, and everyone for that matter, to believe soda will make them happy and sugar packed, artificially colored cereal will give them great energy.
One step we can take is educating ourselves about food. We can watch documentaries like this and read about food. We can go to a farmers market and simply admire all of the beautiful produce. Then we can take our knowledge and feed ourselves as we see fit. I love having the freedom to choose what I eat and having the understanding of why I chose those foods.
Killer at Large