Real Food

I am constantly amazed by what I see in the grocery store in middle America.  Rarely will you see me up and down the aisles, buying boxed or packaged food.  Someone asked me once, "...then, what do you eat?!"  The answer is real food.  Food that when you look at it, you can tell where it came from.  Food that doesn't take up half of the package's label with chemicals, preservatives, dyes, fats, sodium and fillers.  With regards to meat, there are chemicals used in processing that will never show up on a label.  Plus there are the antibiotics, hormones and the unnatural diet fed to the animals.

I am not judging those who choose to eat differently.  People have been eating this way for a long time.  However, food has changed.  Not just in terms of genetic engineering, but the chemicals and additives are different from when we were kids.  For example, if we had the occasional soda pop as a child, it actually contained sugar, not high fructose corn syrup.

(Hops off soap box).  So, I write this to illustrate what it is that I do eat.  Back to breakfast again today. I usually will choose between steel cut oats, a smoothie, nothing, or egg whites.  Eggs have about 186 mg of cholesterol per egg, which is over half of the daily suggested amount.  Egg whites have zero.  I do love the occasional poached egg, but I have embraced the egg white.  These are fully cooked in the microwave in under 2 minutes and you can add a variety of things for flavour.  A little parmesan, some pesto, hot sauce, salsa, fresh herbs, avocado...  You can make an egg sandwich with them with a whole grain english muffin or bread with a tomato and/or some turkey.  Very versatile - make it your own.