Tuesday, December 7, 2010

mostly plants: what to eat

  1. eat mostly plants, especially leaves
  2. you are what what you eat eats too- in other words meat eaters- the meat you just ate- is made up of whatever the meat ate before you came along and ate it.
  3. if you have space buy a freezer- you will be buying seasonally and freezing will preserve nutritional value where canning or jarring will not.
  4. Eat like an omnivore: variety  variety variety
  5. eat well-grown food from healthy soils
  6. eat wild foods when you can
  7. to be continued

Monday, December 6, 2010

Eat Food: Food Defined

  1. Don't eat anything your great grandmother wouldn't recognize as food.
  2. Don't eat anything incapable of rotting
  3. Avoid food products containing ingredients that are a) unfamiliar, b) unpronounceable, c) more than five in number, or that include d) High Fructose Corn Syrup.
  4. Avoid food products that make health claims
  5. shop the peripheries of the supermarket and stay out of the middle
  6. Get out of the supermarket whenever possible
  7. shake the hand that feeds you