So...my progress on my personal project. Let's talk about that. Honestly, there isn't any yet. I've been struggling to conceptualize what I want to do with this project, and how big the changes are that I want to make right now. At the moment, I'm looking at making small changes. In particular, I want to do things like replace canned/jarred/pre-packaged food with something fresh, but right now, my conception of that is just to replace the frozen waffles I eat for breakfast with something fresh...maybe try and make my own spaghetti sauce...using more fresh fruit/vegetables as side dishes. To complement this, I'm planning on doing some research into the benefits of: locally-grown and/or organic produce and other food; the advantages of locally-owned restaurants cooking locally-produced food; maybe even looking at the benefits of locally-brewed beer as opposed to mass-produced crap. Today I had the idea of examining organic cola to see if it would be healthier than my Dr. Pepper/Mr. Pibb addiction.
These are kind of the vague ideas I have for this project, but I'm still...having trouble getting started. Ideas/comments would be appreciated. Thanks.
You start by not necessarily making everything yourself, but take one of Michael Pollen's (I think it is one of his approaches) approaches which is only to buy items when you know all the items on the ingredients list. I've been working towards this in my life and it's pretty crazy when you begin to actually pay attention to what is in the food you eat!
ReplyDeleteHere's (maybe) a helpful website for you... I happened upon it the other day when doing some research myself, and figured since you and I are doing very similar projects, it might be of some use.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.greendove.net/farmersmarket.htm