Food blog

Breakfast:

Rice crispies cereal: rice, sugar, salt, malt flavoring, high fructose corn syrup, vitamins and iron: iron, ascorbic acid (vitamin c), niacinamide, pyridoxine hydrochloride (vitamin B6), riboflavin (vitamin B2), thiamin hydrochloride (vitamine B1), vitamin a palmitate, folic acid, vitamin D and vitamin B12

Lunch:

Rice: canola oil, rice, salt

Bean Stew: black-eyed peas, tomato paste, water, salt,

Lamb meat: meat, canola oil, salt

Barbecue sauce: High fructose corn syrup, vinegar, tomato paste, modified food starch, honey, salt, less than 2%molasses, natural hickory smoke flavor, spice, mustard flour, dried garlic, dried onions, and paprika

Lentil soup: smashed lentils, mint, red chili’s, water, lemon

Lemon

grape juice: Filtered Water, Grape Juice Concentrate, Grape Juice, calcium gluconate, calcium lactate, ascorbic acid (vitamin c)

Later Snacks:

Steamed beets: beets, water, salt

Cinnamon pecans: pecans, butter, sugar, vanilla, cinnamon

I look at all the names of chemicals that I can’t even pronounce and I think that I eat so many bad things. But, then I think of all the people out there that eat worse stuff, like fast food, everyday. I mean, to me, having cereals, lamb and Barbecue sauce (!) in the same day if so unlike me. I eat pretty healthy for a lot of reasons. First, my mom has hypertension and high cholesterol so she kind of makes us eat healthy with her. It’s kind of like saying: well, if I can’t have it, you can’t either! I can’t remember the last time I had Wendy’s or McDonald's  same goes for junk food, when we have ice cream or pop in the house there must be a really big and special occasion because otherwise it wouldn't be allowed. It’s not really that I'm trying to be healthy but that I was raised that way by my mom and any other way would feel right. Second, we eat a lot of Middle Eastern food in the house, mostly Kurdish food, and our foods are pretty healthy. They mostly consist of beans, rice and a lot of veggies. I wasn't surprised to learn that I'm not that much of a bad eater.