Eat Real Food!

Eat real food! I cannot stress this enough. Eat real food!

I love to cook and I love to eat. More and more I have found that the more food is processed, the worst it is for you. For example, the great "Butter vs Margarine Debate". To make butter you churn milk and cream until it becomes the consistency, of well, butter. Add some salt and viola, the best thing to happen to bread since slicing it. To understand how to make margarine, you need to have a chemistry degree. This video explains it pretty well, I think.

I choose butter!

  

If possible, grow your own vegetables. You know exactly what has gone into the soil and plants to bring you the natural yumminess that is nature's bounty. I know this can be hard, especially considering space and willingness. Plants need tending and are sometimes mysterious in their special needs. One way to combat this is a great idea I found on Kickstarter.

I can't wait until spring. I am going to knock the socks off of my over achieving gardening neighbor on the corner!

As much as possible, cook your own food. In the long run I have found it to be cheaper, and far more tastier. There is also something very satisfying  about feeding your friends and family the fruits of your own labor, from your garden and from your kitchen. Seriously, even if it just a salad from the tomatoes and romaine that you grew yourself, there is nothing quite like the silence of satisfaction from your family and guests around the dinner table.

Can't talk. Eating.

Now compare this picture to a picture of how food really looks from McDonald's.

No wonder Foster went crazy in the movie Falling Down.

Finally, travel the world and see how others cook their food. If I had a bucket list, eating my way around the world would be on the top. My dream job would be to do exactly that.

Anthony Bourdain has my dream job. 

 

Eat Real Food!