What do you eat? What should you eat?
This is a brief, food-for-thought post. Here I put something out there that I’d like to hear your thoughts on because you probably know more about food and think more about food than most people due to the fact that you are a gardener.
From best to worst, here is the order in which I would rank food.
1. Wild food
(Examples are stinging nettle, volunteer tomatoes, rabbits, the bluefin tuna shown above.)
2. Garden food
(The cabbage you grow, oranges from your tree, potatoes, walnuts, avocados.)
3. Farm food
(From a stall at a farmers market, you buy beets and strawberries, pastured poultry, honey.)
4. Grocery store whole food
(A bag of rolled oats from the bulk bin, some dry beans, raw milk, apples, a steak.)
5. Restaurant food
(A pasta dish, curry with rice, a hamburger.)
6. Food products
(Frozen chicken tenders, most cereal, most beverages, most bread.)
What’s the point of these rankings? The implications are that, therefore, I should eat most from the upper levels and least from the lower levels. And, therefore, the more I forage, catch, and grow, the better.
Any thoughts?
In a few days I’ll add some explanations for the rankings, justifications for the judgements.
I concur completely.
It saddens me to see the cars lined up at fast food joints and the lines of obese people at the demo food carts at Costco. Manufactured Frankenfoods = excess weight and managed sick care.
A JERF diet (just eat real food) without an ingredients/warning label is probably the reason we are metabolically healthy. Sadly, there are very few who are willing to take the time to forage, harvest, grow food.
What is more important than health? The goal is to live long and die short.
70-something and skiing this winter!