Healthy Eating and Shopping

Today I tried to continue my healthy trend for eating. Not so much at home....I slept the day away; but with my shopping for food for my overnight shifts. Let me tell you a regular grocery store leaves things very lacking. Now i see why Americans are the fattest country in the world. Our serving sizes are ridiculous and our food choices are so lacking in nutrition it defies logic.

Now I am not the healthiest person in this country, but when looking for real food choices I am beyond floored. Not at the variety of options, at the pure lack of nutrional value our food contains. How do I know this to be true you may ask. Well i will tell you. This past week i pulled some extra hours at work; doing this always limits my time to eat, so of course i defaulted to fast food to fuill in the gap. Now all total i ate 5 meals that were fast food based. They tore up my stomach and i felt tired and sluggish in the time periods where i was awake and fighting for lucidity. 5 meals shpuold not make your poo go atomic and have you praying to the toilet gods for an end to the pain and misery. I know TMI, but we have to face facts; we are ingesting very empty calories and chemicals that are destroying our bodies.

The dinner i cooked Monday night was simple fare yet by the time i was half way done i was feeling satisfied. Didn't happen with the fast food. i look forward to the days i can cook and find better healthier food. Back to my shopping trip....one thing i do my best to do is have a fruit with my lunch. Normally not in any kind of juice or liquid a) cuts down on sugars and b) it just better for you. At the grocery store could i find fruit like this? Hardly. oh the had cut cantaloupe but I could tell i was chock full of preservatives. No fruit sits that long in a refrigeration unit and still looks that fresh. Again not the healthiest but honestly if i make it to 90 i really don't want to look like i am 30.

Yes the fat guy is making a case for real healthy food. Chock full of vitamins minerals...flavor and oh my gosh real taste. Seriously soon we are going to have chicken flavored chicken because what will be given to us wont even be a true piece of meat. Ladies and gentlemen it is time we take a stand and demand that our food be food. Not a list of chemicals made to taste like food. 15 years from now we are going to have raspberries with real raspberry flavoring. Seriously think about it just for a second...laugh now but know the day is coming where food is not food. It is a gray paste made to taste like....insert your flavor. We need to get back to the basics. Refuse to buy prepackaged crap. Cook, i mean real food with real flavor and real texture.