I've started reading Eating Animalse by Jonathan Safran Foer after debating over it being a good idea and I suppose, ultimately deciding it was. My eating of anything has slowed to a crawl, however. First it was the stomach rebellion and then not having any food. Well, I went shopping yesterday and got a good one half of what I needed.
I was sure my tomatoes were good so I didn't get any. But no, I had a very unhealthy looking bag of tomatoes sitting in my minifridge upon coming home. I got whole wheat pasta shells but didn't want to buy Alfredo sauce (shells must be in white sauce, duh!) least I could make a healthier one myself. Of course, I have no idea how to make Alfredo sauce and resigned to look it up later. Haven't done that yet. I bought potatoes but my ham went long bad and I didn't buy any long onions so no fully loaded one of those. I pretty much have spinach leaves, raspberry vinaigrette, chicken and ground beef, some 100% fruit pops, a few yogurts to try out, and some cans of garbanzo beans. All which totaled to 60 some odd dollars. Damn me trying to eat healthy and afford shit at the same time! I go home with half of what I need.
Now this book is giving me some issues. Even though I only started reading it yesterday, it has already wheedled its way into my psyche. Do I even need meat? The evidence would point to no, but I really enjoy meat. The book makes it clear how foolhardy that is. It hasn't outright said so, but it has made my liken eating meat to the type of dumb attitudes commonly held by bigots prior to the 1960s. The type of absolute belief of better-than-you. But worse in this case, because there is often no direct maliciousness toward the meat we eat. I guess if you are a hunter or farmer or one of the fishermen who bring in the tons of fish that feed the masses there could be, but for the lot of us there is none. I don't know what I think about this all quite yet but I did thaw some of the ground beef I bought and I did make spaghetti with it. All the while knowing there is no logical reason ground beef needs to be in spaghetti.
I was sure my tomatoes were good so I didn't get any. But no, I had a very unhealthy looking bag of tomatoes sitting in my minifridge upon coming home. I got whole wheat pasta shells but didn't want to buy Alfredo sauce (shells must be in white sauce, duh!) least I could make a healthier one myself. Of course, I have no idea how to make Alfredo sauce and resigned to look it up later. Haven't done that yet. I bought potatoes but my ham went long bad and I didn't buy any long onions so no fully loaded one of those. I pretty much have spinach leaves, raspberry vinaigrette, chicken and ground beef, some 100% fruit pops, a few yogurts to try out, and some cans of garbanzo beans. All which totaled to 60 some odd dollars. Damn me trying to eat healthy and afford shit at the same time! I go home with half of what I need.
Now this book is giving me some issues. Even though I only started reading it yesterday, it has already wheedled its way into my psyche. Do I even need meat? The evidence would point to no, but I really enjoy meat. The book makes it clear how foolhardy that is. It hasn't outright said so, but it has made my liken eating meat to the type of dumb attitudes commonly held by bigots prior to the 1960s. The type of absolute belief of better-than-you. But worse in this case, because there is often no direct maliciousness toward the meat we eat. I guess if you are a hunter or farmer or one of the fishermen who bring in the tons of fish that feed the masses there could be, but for the lot of us there is none. I don't know what I think about this all quite yet but I did thaw some of the ground beef I bought and I did make spaghetti with it. All the while knowing there is no logical reason ground beef needs to be in spaghetti.
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