Yesterday I bought my breakfast from the cafeteria: two hard-boiled eggs, two sausage patties, and a pint of OJ. Skinny Minny next to me in line bought ONE egg and ONE piece of bacon. That just didn’t seem right.
While listening to In Defense of Food, it occurred to me that one reason I feel hungry so much of the time (even right after a big meal) might be that I am not getting enough nutrients. Pollan talks about how we (Americans) are overfed but undernourished. I eat my fair share of fruits and vegetables and whole grains, BUT. I used to grow all our vegetables and some of our fruit, which meant we were eating varieties that had been developed for flavor, not shippability. We are biologically programmed to use our sense of taste to select foods that are good for us (and sweet foods are good for us when they are naturally sweet, not artificially sweetened), so it stands to reason that yummy garden produce, grown organically in living soil, would be more nutritious than what one finds in the grocery store.
For reasons we won’t go into, I did not plant a garden this summer. To make up for it, I am going to hit the local farmer’s market tonight on my way home. Surely, their wares will be close to my own homegrown. Surely.
