eat more organic food

...now its time to slowly go vegetarian and with organic food items. Who knows, maybe I’ll even end up starting my own organic food business. Let’s see!

Going totally organic…

Unfortunately, buying organic is expensive, so I’m prioritizing my transition. I try to buy organic produce and meat, since the processed versions tend to have a LOT of harmful chemicals in them. I quit eating fast food and processed junk food quite awhile ago.

I want to eat myself into Hibitual Hippieness! lol! YES

I slowly have changed many foods in my diet to organic. I love the Kashi brand so I started with that, then milk, then fruits that I dont remove the skins, now I am working on meats. I feel like I am making healthier decisions for me and my daughter. I am not sure I will be 100% organic but I am trying to change the foods that will benefit my body the most…

i think it’s the best but it’s really difficult to me to find some products like milk and tuna…actually don’t eat tuna anymore it’s harmfull…

I want to start eating more organic food, especially more fruits and vegitables!! It really isn’t that much more expensive or hard to find… And it is SO MUCH BETTER FOR ME!!!

you lose weight just from switching some of your regular foods to organic foods. its just way healthier and better for you. some organic foods taste better than the original food. for example, organic milk has a more milky flavor than regular milk. and organic peanut butter tastes like pure peanuts. you get used to it and its worth doing.

Every now and then I feel I can treat myself—to real health food.

So I bought a package of almonds, a perfect plum, a ginger drink flavored with honey, and some water crackers.

It was the most delicious meal I’ve had for months (with the possible exception of pesto noodles), even counting spinach enchiladas!

I had been avoiding chocolate for several days, but today I gave in, because like any addiction, it becomes more appealing when the addict’s stress level is up (and they’ve gone without it for whatever the requisite period is, depending on how addictive a substance it proves to be).

The truth is, I like chocolate, but I also realize that a good deal of sugar goes into it, and sugar as a rule is not the healthiest thing, since it is known to contribute to diabetes.

So I compromised and got a small hot chocolate, and avoided dark chocolate candybars (which I see as the hard stuff). I was in a strange mood so I ended up experimenting, pouring some of the remainder of the ginger drink into the chocolate, which was sort of interesting, even if the average cafe is not geared towards chemical combinations (their chocolate seeming somewhat bland lately).

There are a lot of drinks that masquerade as organic, when in fact they are mostly sugar water.

For the longest time I would buy these “organic grape drinks”, because the presence of organic grapes seemed like enough evidence that it was healthy. In fact, sugar was the second ingredient after water, something I conveniently forgot—and I think to the detriment of my long-term health.

Inevitably, moving towards a healthier diet is also to be conscious of meats. For awhile (about a month or two) I was consciously eating vegetarian, something I hadn’t done before. My doctor had commented that I’m “probably more vegetarian than I think” which was sort of an eye-opener. How much meat does the average American eat? Do I really want to know?

But lately I’ve returned to it, in part because I’m not very good at finding restaurants, and tend to wear a rut towards the locations I’ve always gone to. But now the meal I eat after work tends to be a spinach quesadilla—which has no meat. I’m beginning to wonder if I have to move out of my parents house just to go all-vegetarian.

They don’t seem very flexible, although when I was a kid living with just my mom and my brother we used to eat a lot of plain foods, and whether it was healthy or not there wasn’t much meat in it.

For one reason or another I’m starting to be consciously attracted to vegetarian females, as long as that isn’t the only thing they’re about. Maybe this is an unhealthy view, but I see life of mind as being necessarily less dependant on food.

I once heard this guy comment as he was walking by that he “Likes (me/someone) being bulemic” and I don’t know if he was talking to me or his girlfriend, but I was horrified. What sort of depraved loser do you think I am? Maybe he saw me spit out the last few bites of a meat sandwich I bought at the corner, but did he hear me wretching? Since when is everyone near the bottom of the average body mass index bulemic?

Afterall, muscle weighs more than fat, and I’m not the most muscular type. I have been hoping that my metabolism is due to mental energy rather than inefficient processing of the requisite foods.

In the original meaning of the term, “Epicurean” was not indulgence so much as practical good taste, the awareness that the best foods taste best to those that know best. People that eat satisfying food don’t need to eat as much, because they already have the nutrients they need to live. By “satisfying” I don’t mean cheese doodles or diet coke. The food that is most nutritious may vary from day to day depending on your needs.

I don’t advocate that anyone starve themselves, and I think there’s something wrong with any man that wants their girlfriend to be bulemic. The broad categories of “high in vitamins”, “omega-3”, and “vegetarian” provide guidelines for people to experiment with things that don’t hurt you. Ultimately though, if you want to stay in good health, you need to be constantly on guard for signs that your diet isn’t doing you any good. If you feel bad, experiment. If you feel better, look at what you’re eating and try to find out what’s going right about it.