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Green, Ohio —
How many of you decided you would make a New Year's Resolution that you would exercise and eat better this year?
A few months have passed. Are you still honoring that resolution?
I have found the perfect solution to not failing when it comes to making those resolutions — just do not make them.
I want to live healthier and make wiser choices when it comes to eating.
However, it is difficult to change when you grew up frying eggs and potatoes in bacon grease in a cast iron skillet. It is hard to enjoy an egg cooked in a non-stick pan sprayed with some aerosol substance. It takes all the fun out of fried potatoes.
I remember going out in the garden with an old metal salt shaker and sitting and eating tomatoes and cucumbers, now we have to wash them first and not use salt.
Modern medicine might be great but they have taken all the fun out of eating.
But don't worry there is a substitute for everything. Honestly, I have tried but there is just something about putting combined chemical products in my sweet tea instead of sugar. It may make it sweet but I have never been able to get used to the after taste. Butter-like products can be made from “ingredients” other than milk and there is a substitute for salt and a fake oil for frying fries but what are fries without real salt?
We used to drink milk “straight” from the cow, ever done that? It was tricky, but if you could get it aimed just right you could hit your brother's mouth from under the cow about five feet up in the air. I remember camping and leaving eggs sitting out on the picnic table, now they have expiration dates and have to be kept refrigerated.
We canned fresh fruits and vegetables and kept them in the fruit cellar and hung bacon and ham in the smoke house.
Modern technology has produced “a bacon” that sits on the pantry shelf for a year or more and you just heat it in the microwave. And, I never remember my uncle butchering turkeys to make bacon or sausage.
Today's technology might have some good things going on but somehow, I just feel that if meat can sit on a shelf for more than a year there has to be a lot of things in it maybe we should not be eating.
How many of you decided you would make a New Year's Resolution that you would exercise and eat better this year?
A few months have passed. Are you still honoring that resolution?
I have found the perfect solution to not failing when it comes to making those resolutions — just do not make them.
I want to live healthier and make wiser choices when it comes to eating.
However, it is difficult to change when you grew up frying eggs and potatoes in bacon grease in a cast iron skillet. It is hard to enjoy an egg cooked in a non-stick pan sprayed with some aerosol substance. It takes all the fun out of fried potatoes.
I remember going out in the garden with an old metal salt shaker and sitting and eating tomatoes and cucumbers, now we have to wash them first and not use salt.
Modern medicine might be great but they have taken all the fun out of eating.
But don't worry there is a substitute for everything. Honestly, I have tried but there is just something about putting combined chemical products in my sweet tea instead of sugar. It may make it sweet but I have never been able to get used to the after taste. Butter-like products can be made from “ingredients” other than milk and there is a substitute for salt and a fake oil for frying fries but what are fries without real salt?
We used to drink milk “straight” from the cow, ever done that? It was tricky, but if you could get it aimed just right you could hit your brother's mouth from under the cow about five feet up in the air. I remember camping and leaving eggs sitting out on the picnic table, now they have expiration dates and have to be kept refrigerated.
We canned fresh fruits and vegetables and kept them in the fruit cellar and hung bacon and ham in the smoke house.
Modern technology has produced “a bacon” that sits on the pantry shelf for a year or more and you just heat it in the microwave. And, I never remember my uncle butchering turkeys to make bacon or sausage.
Today's technology might have some good things going on but somehow, I just feel that if meat can sit on a shelf for more than a year there has to be a lot of things in it maybe we should not be eating.
I have tried to follow the new health guidelines but no one can be expected to bake chocolate chip cookies without eating the dough. There is just something wrong with them telling us it is not healthy. Of course, I told my kids they would get worms from eating raw cookie dough (I had a smile on my face, I did not mean it) but that was just so there would be more for me.
Bottom line, I have tried to do better. Many years ago I quit keeping a jar of bacon grease in the fridge for frying eggs and potatoes. I do, however, admit that I currently have a container of the all purpose grease in my refrigerator for making fried rice. What? It is healthy, I use brown rice.
