Grandma Making Real Bread
Yesterday, we covered eating only foods your grandmother and/or great-grandmother would recognize. And I subtly suggested that you take a journey through your kitchen and see what you would find…. Likely a great deal your granny wouldn’t recognize. But that’s OK! Eat it up and simply don’t replace it! Or dump it! Whatever sits best with you! (I did a little of both, dumped some odd looking things that had been in the pantry for years and decided other things I would simply eat up and not purchase again).
Here is the second key concept when searching for real food…. if it won’t rot… don’t eat it! Why? Everyone has heard the story of the fast food burger left out for weeks or months or years and it still looked the same. I don’t know if this story is really true, but it certainly is a great illustration of why you want to eat fresh foods and those without all the preservatives! Besides not knowing how old something is, preservatives and additives lie to your body. Since our body was not meant to digest them, we are unprepared to use our senses (like smell or even sight) to know if the foodlike substance is any good (for us, it might still taste ok… ewh! Food science has created foodlike products that appeal to our preferences for sweetness, fat and salt. These attributes are hard to find in natural foods, but way to easy and cheap in the processed food world. And for whatever reason, we aren’t satisfied after eating these foodlike substances… and we eat more.
So the lesson for the day is: if the food you are looking to eat never spoils… Don’t eat it!
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