The assignment that was given in social studies class was to choose a modality for your last experience in the food unit. Your options were either to choose an experimental like change your change diet, second was academic and example of that is doing research on a specific aspect that was learned that interest you. Lastly was some type of advocacy work to inform others about better food. The modality that I chose was experimental, which was to see how it feels to live a vegetarian lifestyle for a couple days. Apart from that healthy eating as well. Everything that I have taken in about the meat and the food that I’ve been consuming all my life, being a vegetarian and eating healthy seemed like the perfect project idea.
Being a vegetarian seemed so easy when the idea was brought up or on first day of trail the first day but it actually wasn’t. Trying to find a tasteful and fulfilling meal for lunch and dinner that wasn’t repetitive was pretty difficult. I didn’t want to eat the same meals everyday because I wasn’t familiar with this eating habit. This made me realize how many times meat is a component of my meal everyday. One day coming home starving from work I found myself looking through my fridge with my new "vegetarian eyes" and saw that there was nothing for me to eat. I then went to the supermarket and came back home and cooked 2 marvelous quesadillas with a fruit salad. Cooking is an important component of eating vegetarian I saw; no matter where I walked around my neighborhood the supermarket was the only place that fit the criteria of eating no meat. Another day I ate 13 dollar meal that included a sandwich with fresh mozzarella cheese, basil, and tomato with bottled water. This was a good and healthy meal and it puzzled me how a simple sandwich could be so good. It was a combination of eating healthy and eating vegetarian which was pretty hard during my experimentation. The pricing of healthy food is much more expensive than anything else I could’ve been eating for lunch.
Eating healthy and not consuming any meat whatsoever isn’t as simple as I thought. Everything around us is meat oriented and unhealthy. Fast food takes such a huge toll on our environment and eating unhealthy is something that’s so difficult to shy away from. Many people do not always come across healthy organic places and even if they do they don’t see themselves purchasing a meal that’s more than ten dollars that isn’t of huge proportion. The amount of money spent on food is very important, and it compares to spending a lot for a lot of "crap" or spending a lot for small amount of healthy. Every individual should look to care for their body’s and purchase healthy food but most of our population wouldn’t be able to have it as an expense. i think i remember andy saying about 3 % or 13% purchase healthy. correct me if im not.Whole foods is a great place to buy food, food that isn’t too expensive and pretty healthy. Before the start of the food unit I had no clue that whole foods sold a broad selection of delicious and healthy food and I know many can compare to my situation.
My former "addiction" to fast food had me comparing what I ate with what I use to eat. I could see the comparison from eating greasy meals like McDonalds or whatever and eating a sandwich from organique, whole foods. on top and last but not least not eating meat. My body felt lighter, I wouldn’t receive instant ides from the food I ate. Energy and your body willing to do more throughout the days was the result of eating healthy and not eating meat. My experiment showed me that being a vegetarian isn’t something I would want to follow as a lifestyle but eating healthy is. Healthy is a component of living a good life and that should always be acknowledged. to further my experiment and to further my motives on eating healthy I want to become more custom to cooking for and buying for myself and not stoop to the nearest and unhealthy fast-food place that lies on every corner.
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