Warning - this Post may make you Hungry

We have had such great food discussions during this blog challenge.  I was just reading the comments on James' Corn and Soy post.  I think it is so wonderful that as consumers we are starting to ask questions and look at the ingredients of our food and get back to quality food rather than quantity.

I have been learning alot about the wrong foods being heavily subsidized, therefore encouraging people, especially those that are poor to buy crappy food for themselves and their children.  How often do we look at an overweight person and say, gee, they are obviously eating all the time, rather than realizing that in many cases they are just eating crappy bad for you food.  Hopefully the way we buy food and the choices we make will have an impact on the industry overall.  Regulations are starting to change, bad food is getting removed in a lot of schools, so there is hope.

I think there are a couple of issues at play.  One is the actual fact that there are low income families that just cannot afford the cost of quality.  These people unfortunatley are relegated to buying as much quantity as they can for little.  So balance goes out the window.  They have to eat cheap foods and low cost meat.  Face it, extra lean costs way more than full fat, skin on chicken is cheaper than skinless.  Fruits and vegetables become out of reach for these familes.  This is where the Jamie Oliver's and Food Incs. strive to make things better for all.

The other issues is one of priorities.  I often hear people complain that the good food costs too much.  This may be true, but these are the same folks often driving the 50K vehicle, have expensive brand name clothes and the latest in electronics.  So these are not the people who can't buy better food, these are the people who choose not to.

Chad and I are very fortunate to have good jobs and can take some of our money to try and better our lives and our health.  We are not perfect by any means, there are days we come home and have cheerios or peanut butter toast!  But we are having our peanut butter on healthier bread and the cheerios are a bit better than some cereals. 

So in this spirit, I went again today to our local farmers market.  Being just a couple blocks away I have no excuse.  Did it cost me more than I would pay at the Grocery store?  Absolutely. But my money went to support a lot of local producers and we had the yummiest dinner tonight with some of the loot.

So here is the bounty we got today: 

Organic Brocolli, Peas, Tomatoes & Carrots.

Some homemade pyrogys and green onion cakes.  This time I also got us some cupcakes...mmmm

And for me the flower addict, I got some beautiful gladiolas pictured above
: )

After the market I went to a new pet food store and got some different food for my cats.  As discussed in an earlier post I am on a mission to get my cat of insulin, so he is going low carb baby.  I did a lot of label comparisons as well and realize that even the vet food isn't necessarily the best.  So the experiment begins.  Tonight Thor and Fuzzbutt got a new wet EVO food that has no carbs at all.  Thor even ate it which surprised me because he is a kibble addict.

All of this has made me realize that for the last decade or so we have just turned off our brains and let the experts tell us what to do.  "They" say we need more vaccinations.  "They" say that BPAs in small quanities doesn't do any harm.  Hmm...do "They" really know?

So we are all now starting to question and inject Common Sense.  Imagine that!