I recommended The Omnivores Dilemma by Michael Pollan to a friend recently, but didn’t imagine that a simple book rec would somehow result in me participating in a food challenge for two weeks. As a former-vegan, former-vegetarian, former-OrganicsOnlyPsychoMom, I have experience with food restrictions and rules. However, most of them have been health based, and the ideology followed. In this instance, the ideology is primary, and has been brought to the forefront of my attention by my friend Kalie, who has refreshed my memory with the reasons why we “used” to do all kinds of things (food-wise).
Her take on things is here:
http://kaliesawesomeblog.blogspot.com/2011/06/omnivores-challenge.html
This is more eloquent than I have time to be right now – part of the challenge is to post every day, and in my normal fashion I have waited until 11:30 to begin writing.
Kalie hosted our first communal dinner tonight. Community, Kevin and I have found in the past, is absolutely vital to any lasting human endeavor. We enjoyed fresh-caught tilapia, local green beans, rice, and strawberry pie. All of it was awesome, fresh and vital, and we enjoyed the conscious hedonism, if you will, of a group of people coming together and breaking bread, enjoying the simple pleasures of food and knowing that we were all eating that particular food in that time and place for a reason.
The rest of my day was less focused. Busy with work, busy with kids, busy busy busy and necessary life got in the way of planned life. So it is most days, but all we can do is try harder, make habits, shop smart and plan.
Todays introduction to this challenge was really fun. It was great all day to be anticipating dinner, to look forward to the food instead of dreading 5pm when the kids start getting whiny and I’m forced to look up and ponder what to make for them? For me? The kids were excited to see friends, go to a new house, and even though they didn’t eat much food at their age being in an environment is just as important as partaking in the event – those toddlers are experience-sponges and will remember dinner for a long time.
Wednesday night is my night to host, and I already have plans brewing. In the meantime, tomorrow is another “normal” day: work from home, babies at mom’s house for a few hours, smoothies and sandwiches and salads and dinner crunch. However, in every way possible, we will follow the rules and spirit of the challenge, and push ourselves farther. Hopefully, by the end of the challenge, we will have developed a conscious again regarding our food, and remember that what we eat does matter, our buying power does mean something, and that if we are the only ones to keep this up after the two week challenge is over? Then that is also great, and will suffice.
Her take on things is here:
http://kaliesawesomeblog.blogspot.com/2011/06/omnivores-challenge.html
This is more eloquent than I have time to be right now – part of the challenge is to post every day, and in my normal fashion I have waited until 11:30 to begin writing.
Kalie hosted our first communal dinner tonight. Community, Kevin and I have found in the past, is absolutely vital to any lasting human endeavor. We enjoyed fresh-caught tilapia, local green beans, rice, and strawberry pie. All of it was awesome, fresh and vital, and we enjoyed the conscious hedonism, if you will, of a group of people coming together and breaking bread, enjoying the simple pleasures of food and knowing that we were all eating that particular food in that time and place for a reason.
The rest of my day was less focused. Busy with work, busy with kids, busy busy busy and necessary life got in the way of planned life. So it is most days, but all we can do is try harder, make habits, shop smart and plan.
Todays introduction to this challenge was really fun. It was great all day to be anticipating dinner, to look forward to the food instead of dreading 5pm when the kids start getting whiny and I’m forced to look up and ponder what to make for them? For me? The kids were excited to see friends, go to a new house, and even though they didn’t eat much food at their age being in an environment is just as important as partaking in the event – those toddlers are experience-sponges and will remember dinner for a long time.
Wednesday night is my night to host, and I already have plans brewing. In the meantime, tomorrow is another “normal” day: work from home, babies at mom’s house for a few hours, smoothies and sandwiches and salads and dinner crunch. However, in every way possible, we will follow the rules and spirit of the challenge, and push ourselves farther. Hopefully, by the end of the challenge, we will have developed a conscious again regarding our food, and remember that what we eat does matter, our buying power does mean something, and that if we are the only ones to keep this up after the two week challenge is over? Then that is also great, and will suffice.
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