Guest guest Posted January 6, 2004 Report Share Posted January 6, 2004 All this brouhaha about Cheetos and other junk food and trying to make it low carb -- my real question is -- WHO WANTS TO EAT THIS IN THE FIRST PLACE??? I grew up during a time when my grandparents had a huge garden, chickens, goats, and all our food was made from scratch. My mother always had a garden, always made everything from scratch, and guess what? I'm the same way. I was never allowed soft drinks, candy bars, potato chips, and the few times that I indulged in these things, I got sick, and all of it tasted artificial and not like real food. I guess I was lucky. I've never bought a bottle of salad dressing, and I buy nothing (except Italian Marzano tomatoes) in a can, or frozen, or processed. I just don't understand how we went from REAL food to JUNK food and now we have a nation of obese people and everyone is wondering WHY??? I eat anything and everything I want, including that forbidden baked potato, good bread, even pasta, but in moderation. I've never been on a diet in my life, still wear clothes I bought 15 years ago, so I'm at a loss to even understand these diet crazes. Somehow I guess people thought that fast food/junk food was better, but look what it got us??? The only people making money off all this garbage are the pharmas, the doctors, the hospitals, the diet gurus. Sheesh. What happened to WHOLE FOODS??? Blind Reason a novel of espionage and pharmaceutical intrigue Think your antidepressant is safe? Think again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 6, 2004 Report Share Posted January 6, 2004 Hi glitter, I had my mum and sis come over from the uk to see me in october,well i bought in a gallon of milk for them as i only use goats milk for myself.My sis said to me I can't believe the milk has not turned after 2 days she said i wish our milk would last longer I said no you dont this milk has been messed with to make it last this long you still have fresh milk and take it for granted.I said to my husband when i first came over here to live the food has no taste to it i said even the eggs have no taste.We found some free range last week and guess what they tasted just like what i was used to.People always say british food is boring but they still have cereal for breakfast bacon egg and sausage and tomatoes and beans for lunch and meat potatoes and 2 veg for dinner.Just plain old food that many generations grew up on.Although Mcdonalds moved in to my area just after i left and a pizza hut.I guess that will leave all the little cafes struggling to keep going.Fast food is a novelty there in the mountains in wales.Oh and the cheese here it tastes like rubber no matter what kind i have tried but i did notice there is french cheese imported so that makes me happy or maybe i was just spoiled before and didn't realise it. Ros Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 6, 2004 Report Share Posted January 6, 2004 Dear Ros: Simply put, our food supply is disgusting here. I live for the summer when I can garden and grow my own salad and veggies and only then do I realize how most of our store-bought food is basically tasteless -- even the stuff that is supposed to be organic. When I spent periods of time with my family in Wales, they still got milk delivered to their door -- the milk in glass bottles with the cream on top. And if she left her egg basket on the porch, that got filled, too, with free-range eggs. The local veggie man came every day with his truck and my cousin's wife chose what she needed for that day's meals. The butcher had the best lamb and beef. Even the Shepherd's Pie in the local pubs tasted delicious. But my real taste for real food developed when I lived in Paris and shopped for my food every single day from the food stalls (there were no supermarkets per se), where fixing a meal was an art, where the simplest ingredients were the best. I remember when they put in a Mc's on the Champs-Elysees, serving a Big Mac with bearnaise sauce, and the only people I saw eating there were Americans. But then like the rest of the world, everyone wanted to eat what we ate and look where it got them. Obesity is a problem in the EU as well, thanks to the globalization of junk food. I buy everything organic when possible. I'm ordering grassfed beef from a ranch in Missouri. We're trying to find a place to move where I can have a huge garden and grow almost all of my food supply. Some people think I'm crazy about this issue, but I'm the person who didn't know you could buy butter until I was 12. My grandmother always churned her own. My God, now you can't even make butter with the cream you buy in the stores because it's been so pasteurized. I tried it for a dinner I had last year. Got this idea in my head that I'd make fresh butter, but it was impossible. That's when it really hit me that they're totally destroyed the best things in life! LOL Blind Reason a novel of espionage and pharmaceutical intrigue Think your antidepressant is safe? Think again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 6, 2004 Report Share Posted January 6, 2004 I am glad you have been to Wales and tasted the life i came from you would understand that i am not trying to run american way of life down.It's been a bit of an eye opener for me coming here as i lived in 12th century surroundings back home and nothing much had changed since then and as far as government went North Wales was always the last to get anything done so it was not spoiled either.My sis said there are lots of new shops since i left I have to go home and see what has changed in the past 5 years.I mean our city consisted of one street of little shops but because it had a cathedral it was classed as a city.It realy is only a tiny little town lol. Butter here tastes like fat. I miss real cream i loved creamed mushrooms made with double cream, butter, mushrooms and pepper.Oh and devon cream with strawberries.If you have a british store up ther in colorado they have devon cream and butter and other goodies.I did notice tho they cater for our fav junk food to''lol''. Ros Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 7, 2004 Report Share Posted January 7, 2004 I love it, you actually cook, so do I.... The first thing hubby and I talk about when we get up in the morning is what we're going to eat at night. It's our main focus. Someone came for dinner a few months ago and said, "OMG, this is like high-end restaruant food!" They couldn't believe that we eat like that EVERY single night. But then we owned all those high-end restaurants and hubby has cooked for Bill Clinton at an Embassy party in DC, so he's pretty fussy about what we eat. Food to us is one of our greatest pleasures. Simple but elegant food. Simply prepared, not fussy, and the freshest ingredients. Blind Reason a novel of espionage and pharmaceutical intrigue Think your antidepressant is safe? Think again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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