This week we are devoting to cleaning out our fridge, freezer, and pantry (mostly by eating all of the things we think we will no longer be able to eat during this experiment). Ryan's hardship=frozen egg roles. My weakness will be giving up english muffins in the morning. At Freddy's today I checked to see if any other brand of english muffins were without ingredients I could not pronounce (our current standard of acceptable food until we can figure out what food really is).....NO such luck.....english muffins will most likely be on the no-no list. At least until we go to some expensive health food conscious store like Whole Foods. Until then I shall eat oats for breakfast.
It seems wrong to throw away all of our junky food. But it also seems wrong to gorge on it all for a week. And wrong to give it away to make other people unhealthy. Maybe use it for compost to grow some healthy food?
Along with cleaning out our current food storage we are trying to solve the question of what is food? As the first rule is so vague: Eat food. In the store today our conversation went something like this, "Is sausage food?" "They sell it as food, but then how about twizzlers" "Definitely not twizzlers." "Yogurt?" "Probably not the kind of yogurt we have costco-stocked our fridge with." "How about fast-food?" "Well maybe subway but definitely not Taco Bell." As you can get the gist, we cannot spend our first week debating everything we put in our mouth. We must come up with some clean-cut fool proof way to distinguish between food and unfood. Any and all ideas welcome!
-Zoe
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hi, i'm kerri. i saw the link on sarah's FB and thought i would check it out. =) this is a really great idea! my rule of thumb is not to eat anything i can't pronounce (or with ingredients i can't pronounce, rather) but i'm really interested to see all 64 rules. does it get harder as it goes??
ReplyDeleteanywho- just a few comments i thought i'd like to make. first, i eat oatmeal every morning, and pretty much have for the past year or two. my very favorite way to make it is with apple juice (simply apple or trader joe's apple cider... no added sugar) or if you want it creamier use half milk. also, stove is way better than microwave. (definitely worth the 3 minutes it takes to make it)
second- i did work at subway. and no it's not food. =) trust me...
third- would your great-grandmother recognize sushi as food? because that would make me sad if she didn't.
Hi Kerri,
ReplyDeleteNo, it doesn't get harder necessarily, just allows you to think about what you are feeding your body in different ways. I'm excited you are going to be following (and helping) us through this journey! Also, thanks for the oatmeal tips! I'm going to try this! AND we will stay away from subway next week. AND stay tuned for my great-grandma's food ideas......
-Zoe