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By: Kate: My Food Rules « Eat the Damn Cake

Kate: My Food Rules « Eat the Damn Cake — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 01:06:49 +0000

[...] Another Kate’s food rules here. I bet every food/cooking/health blogger has a list somewhere! [...]

By: Free PS3

Free PS3 — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 14:42:37 +0000

Nice read.

By: Recovering Procrastinator

Recovering Procrastinator — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 04:18:40 +0000

This is an excellent post Kate. I like Barb’s rules of real, motivation and celebration.

I think you kind of know where I’m at with all of this but since discovering my MSG sensitivity, I’ve paid a lot more attention to ingredient lists rather than just the nutrition facts part of the label.

In addition to MSG, I’m working on getting away from artificial coloring. Grace throws up when she drinks a lot of Hi C or other things that are really red so I’m thinking she has a sensitivity to that.

We buy natural PB and no-HFCS applesauce b/c those are things we eat A LOT. What brand yogurt do you buy? That’s something else we eat daily.

This month, we decided to see if we could go w/o fast food and pop. Hubby made it. I had fast food twice and the kids did once (today). Grace and I had pop maybe 4 or 5 times and the boys had none.

By: Recovering Procrastinator

Recovering Procrastinator — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 04:18:34 +0000

oops, moderation, not motivation. duh

By: Suzie

Suzie — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 08:45:40 +0000

I find this subject so fascinating because it speaks so much to who we are culturally and the time we live in. My rules are probably a little lax compared to you and your other readers, but mine are:
- fresh fruit every day
- fresh vegetables every day
- almost no fast food
- fish at least twice a week
- no pre-packaged meals, dinner from scratch every night
- no sodas / colas. Nearly no alcohol.
Where we could improve are:
- more vegetarian meals (I am struggling to convince the family)
- fewer sweet treats (the kids take a couple of cookies in their lunch box every day)
I am resigned to the fact that I will always be a work in progress, and if you asked the same question in five years, my views might be very different.

By: Freda Corredor

Freda Corredor — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 11:10:56 +0000

Very good blog post I love your site keep up the great posts

By: Jacqui

Jacqui — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 04:11:44 +0000

Hi Kate, I really liked reading what you had to say about food in our society. My “food rules” are actually pretty close to yours, although I’m a vegetarian, and have been for quite a long time; feeding my body with healthy things has always been important to me and makes me feel better. I honestly do not remember the last time I ate fast food and our budget has been really tight lately, so we tend not to eat out very often. When we do, I really enjoy foods that I too don’t cook often, usually of the ethnic variety. It probably helps that I enjoy cooking, but I’ve developed highly sensitive taste buds too. I notice when my food is too salty or sweet, or artificial tasting and I don’t like it, so I feel like why would I want to eat that when I can make it better at home.

I noticed your comment about how grocery shopping makes you sad when you see people making unhealthy choices, I was just thinking this the other day and telling my fiance about how so many people are eating such bad things and they think they are saving money! I looked at all my bulk bin purchases of dried beans, whole flours, and nuts, then looked at the lady behind me with pre-shredded cheese, various packaged meats, enriched white macaroni noodles, and it made me sad. I just wanted to tell her and show her how to really save money and eat better as well.

I haven’t read Pollan’s book, but what I feel it comes down to is getting back to the basics and eating foods in their purest whole form, before they’ve been manufactured and labeled and packaged as the no transfat, low fat, low carb, high Omeg3 things food had become. Thanks for sharing your thoughts and reading mine.

By: lo

lo — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 02:25:12 +0000

Have read “Omnivore’s Dilemma” and I respect Pollan’s opinions on food. I tend to find him a bit “preachy”… I think he speaks from a privileged standpoint, and he often makes sweeping statements about peoples’ habits and obesity that I take issue with. But, he has also explored some of the important aspects of food politics, and enlightened a good many people about some of the issues. So, I won’t bash him.

That said, I think your stand is a reasonable one. We have to make choices in the here and now. We have to do what we can, and what we feel is reasonable. Every day we get new information… maybe we make changes to our habits, based on what we hear and now know. For me, it’s a constant evolution of thought. A constant movement towards “better.” And I think that’s how change happens. It’s a process. A journey. Not a destination.

By: Kathy

Kathy — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 22:28:05 +0000

2 years ago I started a program called Creating Wellness. The teachings of this program opened my eyes big time to the additives that are in the food we buy. HFCS is one of the biggies I an trying to avoid and have a tough time when I look at prepared stuff. We try to cook at home a lot more than we used to and have found that we are saving a tone of money and are able to control what we eat so much better – even if you think you are ordering something healthy from a menu, you never know everything that went into it! I really want to buy more meat locally but don’t really know how to go about getting connected with a farmer – any advice? Produce in Minnesota in the winter bites – so we end up eating the same fruit and veggies over and over again all winter – so boring – any advice for that issue? Kate – love your writings and they certainly spark interesting conversations!!

By: kat

kat — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 15:12:02 +0000

We don’t have any hard & set rules but here are a few things we’ve been trying to do…we don’t drink any soda. I gave it up about 10 years ago so it was easy for me but hubs has just given up his beloved diet pepsi which has been a little harder for him. We avoid HFCS as much as possible, it was a big reason we started to can, finding a reasonable priced jam with none was so hard. We are trying to buy more of our meat from local farms where we know how it was raised. We are trying to eat more seasonably though its hard in the middle of a Minnesota winter when you want green veggies. We tried to can & freeze a lot this summer but are still learning how much we need to get through the winter. I’m on the same bread kick as you with the Healthy Bread in 5. Eating out we try to go to locally owned restaurants especially those that strive to use locally grown & raised items. We do love our Chipotle burrito but at least as a company they try to use better food.