BACK TO THE BASICS IN 2013

FOOD RULES!!

 

 

A New Year has just begun and instead of analyzing all the different diets out there why not try going back to the basics. Michael Pollan offers some great food rules that won't eat your wallet or leave you hungry. Following his advice in his book "Food Rules," I would like to share some fun and inspiring ways to simply EAT!

 

 

PART 1

 

QUESTION: WHAT SHOULD I EAT?

 

ANSWER: RULE #1...EAT FOOD

 

 

This is easier said than done...right? Especially when there are thousands of new products that show up in your local supermarket/grocery store each year, all of which are trying to take your hard earned money. As Mr. Pollan states in his book, "most of these items don't deserve to be called food--I call them edible foodlike substances. They're highly processed concoctions designed by food scientists, consisting mostly of ingredients derived from corn and soy that no normal person keeps in the pantry, and they contain chemical additives with which the human body has not been long acquainted." Therefore most of the challenge today is how to tell between real food and industrialized foodlike items.

 

 

RULE #2

 

DON'T EAT ANYTHING YOUR GREAT GRANDMOTHER WOULDN'T RECOGNIZE AS FOOD.

 

Michael suggests that one should imagine their great grandmother or grandmother at your side as you walk down each aisle of the supermarket or grocery store. You stand together in front of the dairy case when she decides to pick up the Go-GURT Portable Yogurt tubes and has no idea what the plastic cyclinder of colored and flavored gel could be. Is it food or is it toothpaste? This is just an example of the foodish like products on the shelf that our ancestors would not recognize anymore as food. Therefore you want to try to avoid eating such complicated food products; go beyond the various chemical additives and corn and soy derivatives that they contain and search for something that great-grandma or grandma would put in her cart. Now if your great grandma or grandma was a terrible cook or eater you can substitute someone else's who you envy. :)

 

In the series of blogs to come I will cover more food rules  by Michael Pollan; starting off with how to navigate through the INGREDIENTS LABEL. So be sure to check back in!

 

We wish you a very Happy, Healthy, and Successful New Year!

 

All the BEST IN

 

 

Yours Truly,