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October Unprocessed

Posted in Food, TV on October 1, 2012| Leave a Comment »

A few weeks ago on Facebook, I said, “I’m going to try this: http://www.eatingrules.com/october-unprocessed-2012/”

Ahem.

Then this weekend, I went through my cabinets to purge all the yucky, processed foods and make room for real food.

I wish I’d taken a picture, because that pile was massive and terrifying.

So now I am faced with the uncomfortable decision of 1) throwing away – i.e., wasting – a lot of food, which really bothers me; 2) pawning off all of this deeply unhealthy food to my unsuspecting friends; or 3) using October Unprocessed to wean myself away from processed foods, hopefully adopting an unprocessed lifestyle altogether eventually.

I think I’ll go with Option 3.

So far, today, I have had:

  • Three cups of coffee – freshly ground – check!
  • Pizza from the local pizzeria which prides itself on its whole ingredients, but I haven’t personally read the labels on everything that went into my pizza, so I’m going to count that as a half check.
  • 20 oz. bottle of Cherry Coke. *looks at ingredient list* I don’t even know why I looked.  There’s nothing unprocessed on that label.  Not a single thing.

So I’m off to a solid “meh” start.

In other news, Kim and I finished Veronica Mars last night.  Most unsatisfying ending to a show ever.  But we also watched the Castle and Revenge premieres.  Now I have to go watch all the other Revenge episodes that ever were, because that show was intense and awesome.  Also, we had donuts, the leftovers of which are currently in my house…during October Unprocessed.

This is not good.

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Vegan…ish

Posted in Food on September 7, 2011| Leave a Comment »

Much of my life and many of my life decisions seem to revolve around food.

Every new year, I have at least one food-related resolution.  Sometimes, it’s to try new recipes (or a hundred).  This year, it’s to embrace my love of feeding people (i.e., do it more often).

I became a Pampered Chef consultant primarily to get a discount on cooking paraphernalia.

My favorite memoirs are foodie memoirs.  I have a specific portion of a bookshelf dedicated solely to this genre.

My favorite memories take place in a kitchen or around a table (if you count my coffee table, where most meals eaten and shared throughout my adult life have taken place).

When I am planning a vacation, I base decisions on where and what we will be eating.

When people ask what I am planning to do on the weekend (or ask what I did), I hear, “What are you having for dinner this weekend?”

Food, particularly as it relates to people, how it affects them, and the stories they tell about it, is important to me.

I am going vegan for Lent.  I have been moving toward a more vegan lifestyle for a while.  And I think that Lent will be a good time to give it a real test run.

I have many reasons and thoughts on this.  I am hoping to share some of them throughout the season.  Confession – part of my reason for doing it during Lent is cowardice.  I’m not even vegan yet – I’m vegan…ish – and people already give me so much crap about it.  It really makes them angry.  I don’t understand.  I’m not asking THEM to go vegan (although when they complain of health problems, such as high blood pressure and asthma, I’m tempted to draw certain parallels). Still they lecture me.

But when they hear that it’s something I’m doing for Lent, they suspend their judgments long enough to actually listen to me tell them why.  I’m not sure if it’s the thought that it’s temporary or for God that wins them over, but I’ll take it.   Forty days of why.

I’m not promising to stay vegan after Easter.  It’s a possibility, though.  The evidence in favor of it is overwhelming, and when personal experience and evidence collide, habit’s voice gets weaker and weaker.

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