What do you think about the foods you eat?

[fuzzybuddy]

I'm not a "foodie". I eat the basics-meat, potatoes, and veggies. Some get all carried away with what they eat. Ya know, carrots had to have a "happy life" and had to be sufficiently emotionally prepared to be eaten. Of course, to a foodie, I'm a heathen. What do you think about the foods you eat?

 

[Silent Rose]

I feel that food is a nutrition for my body to survive. Pretty plain and simple.

I can make the choices of what kind of food I choose to consume, but I do need it to survive so I don't really think much on what sort of life a potato had before it became the french fry that I am dipping into ketchup to eat.

 

[oldpeculier]

What do you think about the foods you eat?

Seriously, I think first and foremost about how any food will affect my blood sugar.

 

[oldaunt]

If its reasonably healthy, and it tastes good, I'm eating it. Especially since I do my own buying and cooking.

 

[Medusa]

I put a lot of thought into and am very careful about what I eat, but only because I have to be so. Otherwise, it'd be Pizza and Gyros, mostly. And Edy's Light Rocky Road Ice Cream. And salads... I mean loaded salads that a person can settle in with and spend a good 45 minutes slowly enjoying.

Anyone ever put crunchy onion rings on top of a salad? That's freaking delicious stuff there.

 

[Medusa]

I'm not a "foodie". I eat the basics-meat, potatoes, and veggies. Some get all carried away with what they eat. Ya know, carrots had to have a "happy life" and had to be sufficiently emotionally prepared to be eaten. Of course, to a foodie, I'm a heathen. What do you think about the foods you eat?

Ya know, carrots had to have a "happy life" and had to be sufficiently emotionally prepared to be eaten.

 

[Jules]

I strive for a balanced diet and basically the same as @oldaunt. Everything in moderation or less. Minimal processed foods, lots of vegetables. I’m very conscious of what I eat or serve.

 

[Jace]

I strive for a balanced diet and basically the same as @oldaunt. Everything in moderation or less. Minimal processed foods, lots of vegetables. I’m very conscious of what I eat or serve.

Me, too!

 

[chic]

I guess I must be a "foodie". I try to eat fresh organic everything. With the high cost of food now, I sometimes eat non organic. Food is fuel for my body and mind and medicine. I've been into healthy eating since I was 21 so you can do the math on that one and know it's been a very long time. I don't touch anything fried and avoid sugar at all costs, except for ice cream in warm weather. I actually like veggies and love to cook and enjoy raw foodies, but this is fruit and veggies.

I believe my diet helps me combat certain illnesses and I know if I do catch something my body has nourishment that will let me recover quick.

This kind of a diet is a lifestyle commitment and not for everyone. I get that.

 

[Lavinia]

My diet is pretty boring...I'm quite happy with cheese sandwiches every day. At least it means I'm not difficult to please.

 

[Aunt Bea]

I enjoyed food and eating much more in the first half of my life than I do now.

Sometimes I think about how hard my grandparents worked to put enough food/calories on the table to raise their children and how hard I work to eat as few calories as possible.

I wish that I could find a comfortable balance.

 

[katlupe]

I like to cook so think about my food and what I want to fix daily. Since I follow a keto lifestyle it is fairly simple and easy to prepare. I am finally at the right spot after all these years. After all it is true what they say about food being medicine.

 

[MountainRa]

I feel like I eat the same foods repeatedly and am very tired of them.

 

[Medusa]

I feel like I eat the same foods repeatedly and am very tired of them.

Preach. :/

 

[Ruth n Jersey]

I always have the three basic ingredients for dinner. Meat, starch and vegetable. Heavy on the chicken skin and gravy, one potato the size of a football and one pea.

 

[Alligatorob]

Ya know, carrots had to have a "happy life" and had to be sufficiently emotionally prepared to be eaten

I feel that food is a nutrition for my body to survive. Pretty plain and simple.

I can make the choices of what kind of food I choose to consume, but I do need it to survive so I don't really think much on what sort of life a potato had before it became the french fry that I am dipping into ketchup to eat.

These are things that worry me deeply, probably why I eat so much meat. Hard to find free range potatoes.

Seriously I do like good food, too much I guess. And enjoy well prepared and diverse things, but I am an awful cook, so mostly have to go out to get it.

Given a choice I would probably pick a free range chicken or grass fed beef, but we are omnivores and have been for millions of years, don't see that changing.

 

[Alligatorob]

Anyone ever put crunchy onion rings on top of a salad? That's freaking delicious stuff there.

Yep, onion rings on anything are great, ala carte also.

 

[MountainRa]

How about ‘free range’ butternut squash? We had a volunteer plant come up last summer and, by the time we figured out what it was, it had taken over a large section of our yard and was putting on blooms. Just could not bring myself to pull up the plant.

Below is a picture of what we harvested. Butternut squash is one of the foods I am tired of eating!

 

[oldaunt]

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How about ‘free range’ butternut squash? We had a volunteer plant come up last summer and, by the time we figured out what it was, it had taken over a large section of our yard and was putting on blooms. Just could not bring myself to pull up the plant.

Below is a picture of what we harvested. Butternut squash is one of the foods I am tired of eating!

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Actually, it makes a pretty good "pumpkin" pie......

 

[HoneyNut]

What do you think about the foods you eat?

I think it was easier to eat the right food when my mom was alive and was preparing it. When she was fixing food fruits were nicely washed and ready in the frig to be eaten, and veggies appeared in tidy little slices. Now either a pepper gets eaten whole like an apple or it languishes in the frig until it is moldy and then goes to the trash.

 

[JonSR77]

I like to eat healthy, but I fail too often.

My friend Kathi, from Toronto..she has it really figured out. She has become a foodie. She pretty much makes a full gourmet meal every night.

I wish I was disciplined enough to do that.


From what I have seen her do, it is a lot less complicated than folks might think...

 

[dobielvr]

I eat pretty good. Lots of veggies, all the colors they recommend!, and protein. Meat, eggs, mushrooms.

I asked my kidney doc today if I could please eat one dungenus (sp?) crab and lobster a year...he gave me the ok.

But, no spinach.

 

[Alligatorob]

How about ‘free range’ butternut squash?

I eat a lot of squash, just finished some. Not as free range as yours, but the farmer next door gives us gleaning privileges. After he is done picking in the fall he lets us take what we want from his field, its always enough for a good squash winter.

 

[Medusa]

I eat a lot of squash, just finished some. Not as free range as yours, but the farmer next door gives us gleaning privileges. After he is done picking in the fall he lets us take what we want from his field, its always enough for a good squash winter.

I haven't heard that word in... I actually don't know, but it's a great word, "gleaning." (I know that wasn't the point of your post. I get all gooey over language. LOL)

You guys are cracking me up with the free range veggies.

 

[Alligatorob]

I haven't heard that word in... I actually don't know, but it's a great word, "gleaning."

I use it a lot, maybe picked it up from the Mormons, they used to have a group for young singles called "M Men and Gleaners". The first time I lived in Utah, long ago, I got invited and went once or twice.

I like words too, but am no expert, not something engineers cover in school, LOL.

I like the free range vegetable thing too. Will have to start using it!