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What have you been eating, drinking, and cooking?
What food and drinks have you been enjoying (or not enjoying) recently? Have you cooked or created anything interesting? Tell us about it!
What food and drinks have you been enjoying (or not enjoying) recently? Have you cooked or created anything interesting? Tell us about it!
As a casual cannabis enjoyer on a Friday night after a long and busy work week, I found myself getting the munchies. A common occurrence. So off I went (on foot) to the local 7/11 to pickup snacks. I try to eat healthy most of the time, but I do still enjoy some junk food now and then - or used to!
For the first time ever, I simply did not enjoy the snacks. I put them in a bowl, looked at them, and thought to myself "how is this 'food'?" How are these hard, dry, crunchy orange nuggets supposed to give me any nutrition (Cheetos)? Why have I loved these snacks so much all my life (I'm in my early 40s). How is it legal to sell this kind of thing anyway?
I have been sort of feeling this way about chips and snacks for a few weeks, but I think it wasn't until Friday that I decided I'm done putting these things in my body. Lately, I have been pretty good at taking healthy food to work, snacking mostly on things like fruit and dates. I don't love sweets so avoiding candy, muffins, etc. is no problem. Salty snacks have been top of my preference all my life, but I think I'm done with them.
I used to love these. Put a large bag of Lays in front of me and it's gone. I still like the taste, but now I can't get this idea out of my head that I'm just ingesting garbage. Maybe chips you could argue they are still slices of potato, but something like Cheetos... I can't think of these as being "food". It just happens to be produced as food as sold as food. But it's not food. I don't know what it is. Same with candy. I know I said I don't have issues avoiding candy, but I did like some of those peach gummies now and then. What are these gummies anyway? Gelatin! Basically the rejected materials from pigs? turned into some sort of paste and infused with sugar and flavoring. Gross.
Anyway, that's my food rant. Sorry if you love Cheetos, chips and candy. I did too, but I think I have to do better for the sake of my own body and liver.