Food Assignment 7

What I made was Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Cookies, and the response i got from my friends after eating my cookies was that they really liked it and thought they were delicious , even though in the photos they don't look too appetizing. Actually at first my sister and I were at our friends house in long island and her little sister was making these cookies and they were so good that my sister and I wanted to steal the recipe, then when we got home we went to the grocery store and got the ingredients. There was supposed to be a heath bar in the recipe but we couldn't find any in the store :( but either way they turned out good!

Food # 6 - Response to Pollan 1

I agree with Micheal Pollan's argument about his views on how Americans eat and the thinking process while eating or before eating. I do think that we always ask ourselves about " what are we going to eat today?" and i think that we ask this question so much because there are so many options to choose from. Like for example in the grocery store, there are so many different types of the same food to choose from. And another example is when I am going out to lunch, there are so many different options to choose from , that we all end up contemplating on which place to eat at.

Another aspect of Pollan's argument that I thought was interesting was when they described that people in France who eat all these cheeses and carbs, and not trying to diet are much healthier and weight less then us. While on the other hand, all the Americans care about their weight and are constantly dieting, end up way unhealthier and overweight.

My family doesn't really pay attention to any food experts , i guess that we just follow the "norms" of whats healthy and what is not. For example , we eat salad every night with alot of vegetables because we know that that's what healthy for us. Not that my dad is a food expert , but that is who i look up to when it comes to food. He always guides me with what to eat and whats healthy and whats not. I am pretty sure that he knows all of this from his nutritionist.

Grocery Store and Habitual Food

I think that my family uses the grocery store in a positive way because both my father and mother shop at Whole Foods/Gourmet Garage meaning that all of our food in the fridge is organic and not processed and has a better quality then most other foods. I think that ever since i was little my father and mother did a good job raising me to eat my veggies and fruits, etc. Today in class we were talking about " what is a good way to raise your child to like and eat vegetables?" and there where some classmates saying that its not all about how one is raised, well i would like to argue and say that it does have to do with the way your raised and feed. If your brought up with a bunch of junk food and nothing healthy in the house, your child is most likely to grow up eating junk food. Well with my mom she made sure there was NONE of that in the kitchen and i think it worked out well because today i eat healthy.

I do agree that grocery stores push particular types of products such as what they put at eye level. if you notice all the name brands and "favorites" are at eye level so that people buy it because they see that product first. I think that they put all of the artificial products in the eye view because people tend to love the taste of artificial foods, and then come back to buy more = more business. It is actually funny that we are doing this unit right now because i have decided to go on a mini diet for the summer time. So its good that I'm learning all this new stuff about what is healthy and what is not , because i can take note of it and act on it! One bad habit that i have about my meals is that for lunch i tend to eat unhealthy because all my friends go to the food places around our school that aren't healthy and i end up going too and eat badly. But recently Ive gone to get a salad and meet up with them wherever they are eating.

Refrigerator Assignment

The Things in my Fridge:(everything is organic)
-Eggs
-parmesan
-turkey sliced
-lettuce
-water
-blackberries
-organic grape tomatoes
-yogurt
-pealed garlic
-bay leaves
-basil
-lemon
-rosemary
-potatoes
-left over pasta +salad
-orange
-sparkiling water
-hemp milk
-soy milk
-fresh squezed orange juice
-apple juice
-coconut water
-butter
-relish
-soy sauce
-ranch dressing
-mustard
-stawberry jam
-peace jam
-basamic vinaigrette
-olives
What this shows about my shows about food, your relation to food, our culture's food ways, etc:
-What the food in my fridge shows about my eating habits is that we always eat all organic and nothing processed! We always eat healthy and my parents always makes sure there is nothing fattening in the fridge. actually ever since i was little my mom always made sure that there was no junk food in the fridge so i wouldn't end up always wanting it. Now i wouldn't exactly compare my fridge to our cultures way of eating because our cultures way of eating is fatty foods, fast food, lots of meat, and junk food! And my fridge doesn't have any of that. MY fridge represents the few of us that actually eat healthy at home.... now I'm not saying i eat healthy all the time i do slip up at lunch time because of all the junk thats around our school :(