Food #7: Recipe

WALNUT BROWNIES


INGREDIENTS (Nutrition)
1/4 cup butter
6 tablespoons carob powder
1 cup white sugar
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup all-purpose flour
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
2 egg white
1 cup chopped walnuts
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DIRECTIONS
Preheat oven to 300 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease an 8-inch square baking pan.
Melt the butter or margarine over low heat. Pour into large mixing bowl and stir in carob powder, sugar, salt, flour, and vanilla. Mix in egg whites and walnuts. Spread the dough evenly into the baking pan.
Bake for 30 minutes. Let cool in pan for 10-15 minutes before cutting.

Food # 6 - Response to Pollan 1

Looking at the points that Pollan brings up in his book, the fact that we need help from "proffessionals" to tell us what we need to eat, that tells us that society has a huge problem. Theirs nothing wrong with someone giving you advice on better food choices, but the fact that we are going to experts to tell us the right and wrong foods like we have no idea whats bad for our bodies. People have no idea what to eat becuase of their bad food habits. Maybe eating fast foods for lunch or dinner daily, thats a problem. With McDonalds leading our main source of 'convient food' many other companies would simply have to follow suit to make money. Money is now the root source of pretty much anything in the United States. We would gather it and deem it more important than a pile of food.

Pollan's argument is not that we arent eating healthy foods, but we no longer know the roots that our ancestors did. The food that we constantly are shoving down are throats have lost its essence and have turend into a vast production for money and economy purposes. We no longer cook are our foods, the foods we "buy" are being processed and shipped out to us, taking the quality of good food out the picture. Many countries remember their roots. And Pollan does not care for the healthy issue. In fact, we can say that most people as of now, follow a diet plan, or become vegetarian to simply lose the weight.

Our choices have been made by those who've told us, and we've forgotten the actual choices given to us. Most people would follow the trail that everyone else has, of being in a diet. That meat, and grains are not so great for us. That all those things are just BAD for you. When it's not necessarily the truth. Yes. Most things are bad due to the chemicals and preservatives put on everything. Yes, meat is harder to process. But, it does contain things that matter to the body.Every piece of what we eat, like everything else; contains a bad and a good. Perhaps Pollan isn't exactly wrong. But he isn't right. We do need to be organized into a right direction.

Food #5: Grocery Store and habitual food

When my family goes grocery shopping my mother usually buys a variety of stuff fruits, vegetables, different types of meats (chicken, pork chops, hotdogs, ground beef) things like that. She buys these different things so that way we won't be eating the same things every night or every week. In order to live more meaningful a good way to start is to experience different types of food and experience different types of flavors. Sometimes my dad might fry the chicken or most of the times bake the chicken, which he also does for the pork chops. I like when my father bakes food because he seems to add different flavors to the meal each time. I notice that once I try things I usually don't eat I seem to enjoy it more because im not used to that taste but it is more enjoyable because its new.

The store that my family usually shops at are called Associate or Stop and Shop, these types of grocery stores push there food by having sales, different types of discounts on different foods handing out news paper. One way stores push particular types of products is by having yellow posters or just bright colors to catch our attention in our eye sight, or having the price of the product in a large font so our face expression can drop and be like wow that's cheap so we can buy it. This can also alternate what someone likes or wants just because of the cost or a sale. People will buy the cheaper product which might not have the same taste or quality as the more expensive products. Thats why when my mother has extra money she might buy more snacks, chips, things that we like, and not just the stuff we need.

May Day

I never heard about a holiday called May Day until this assignment. And while i read more information about it on wikipedia it stated "May Day commonly sees organized street demonstrations and street marches by millions of working people and their labour unions throughout most of the countries of the world — though, as noted below, rarely in the United States". Seeing how the United States doesn't take part of this Holiday explains why I never learned much about it. In a way this disappoints me because we celebrate several other holidays, even some that have no meaning but yet the U.S wouldn't support other countries that is celebrating a similar holiday as " labor Day". Worker's holiday first occur in Australia in 1856 s a celebration of the social and economic achievements of the international labor movement. May Day is most common by having organized street demonstrations and street marches by millions of working people and their labor unions.

Food #3: Food Cultures; Home & Corporate

The corporate media takes several different approaches of how to get their audience which is us to buy food. They do this by sending out different advertisements of food and drinks, whether the product is healthy or not. Companies have commercials that advertise their new products or sales to capture the audience. Corporate media advertises healthy foods, diets foods, diet plans, pills, fast foods and several other things. I feel that the corporate media doesn't really care about what we eat or how we eat, as long as we are buying their products and they are making money that is what matters to them.

The mainstream corporate US food ways seen from television and movies is they stress the fact of a family eating at a dining room table, the mother most likely prepared the meal, everyone eating together either in silence or discussing "important things", the father at the head of the table reading a newspaper not paying attention to his family, but everyone seems more or less happy. I have seen several if these things on television and in movies. I seen commercials where they talk about a family that eats together stays together, im not to sure where this idea came from but sounds interesting. I have also seen in movies where before the family eats, someone prays to bless the food. One thing that stands out to me about that is people will bless the food whether they are religious or not, or sometimes the movie has nothing to do with religion but yet someone prays.

Food #2: Internet research

While going through this new unit of "food" one major thing that tends to pop is this so called healthy foods. "what is healthy foods, that's my question?" People in this entire world eat several things; some organic, fried, baked, grilled, just cooking or eating things differently. But whats healthy foods, is being on a diet, eating salads. When I searched this question, I came across this website that talked about "Make healthy Food choices". The thing that i found interesting about this site was it gave more choices kind of like allowing you to choose whats best for you to eat. I was assuming that it would just have things like what you should eat, in a way of forcing you to change your complete eating habits. This website gave suggestions of whats best for you to eat and tips on how to cut down things that are "bad" or unhealthy foods. This website focused more on a general healthy heart than someone looking for a diet to have a bathing suit body. Some suggestions were:

Know and limit your fats.
Choose lean meats and poultry without skin and prepare them without added saturated and trans fat.
Eat at least two servings of fish each week.
Select fat-free, 1 percent fat and low-fat dairy products.
Cut back on foods containing partially hydrogenated vegetable oils to reduce trans fat in your diet.
Cut back on foods high in dietary cholesterol.
Cut back on beverages and foods with added sugars.
Choose and prepare foods with little or no salt.
Cholesterol, fiber and oat bran.
Read labels for a healthy heart.



link (http://www.americanheart.org/presenter.jhtml?identifier=537)

Food #4: Food Journal

Tuesdays dinner:
My father usually does the cooking in my house. He made baked chicken with barbeque sause, yellow rice, mixed vegetables (corn,peas,string beans), and cornbeard. We all usually eat infront of the television as a family. We dont bless the found altogether but we do bless our food individually before we eat. Most of the food is store bought, and we eat with forks. For the most part we talk about how our day went, or something exciting that happen or something we might have seen or found funny. making a laugh at the dinner table which usually I do, puts a smile on my face and makes me enjoy my food more. Before I eat dinner I usually feel tired or stressed because of school, or sometimes just hungery. During the meal I feel more happy because im eating a home cooked meal that taste good. After probably tired but still feeling happy.

Wednesday: Breakfast
Raisen bagel
Orange juice
Water

Lunch: Mexican food
grilled chicken
french fries
Sweet Tea

Dinner:
Fried pork chops
rice and beans
Kool-Aid (Tropical)
Wheat bread
corn