Real Food

I want to work my way toward this: http://www.100daysofrealfood.com/.

I am inspired by this quote from "Cooking for Geeks":

Michael Pollan wrote in the New York Times (“Out of the Kitchen, Onto the Couch,” August 2, 2009): I asked [food-marketing researcher Harry Balzer] how, in an ideal world, Americans might begin to undo the damage that the modern diet of industrial preparedfood has done to our health. “Easy. You want Americans to eat less? I have the diet for you. It’s short and it’s simple. Here’s my diet plan: Cook it yourself. That’s it. Eat anything you want—just as long as you’re willing to cook it yourself.”

So many Americans aren't able to achieve this because they never learned the skills and in the midst of their busy lives, they do not have the time to go back and change the way they get their food.

My long-term goal is to (almost) never eat anything that we do not cook ourselves. There are a lot of skills that I am working to develop to make this happen-- time management, planning, cooking, and maybe even delegation to my sweet husband.

But, baby steps, right? A while back I started making sure that we bought at least three types of fruit per week and made a point to eat them before they went bad. This week, to work toward healthier, more "real" food, I'm going to add a vegetable to each of our meals-- mainly by purchasing plain frozen veggies that will be easy to prepare.