Breakfast: Some peanut butter
Lunch: Lentil Soup
Dinner: An avocado that wasn't ripe, some peanut butter and corn salad (that corn salad is FINALLY gone!)
Snacks: Couple cups of OJ
Run: 4 painful miles
My friend, Maria, who is doing a similar fast to ours right now (GO, MARIA!!!) told me about her experience at our local Martin's grocery store. At the checkout, the checkout lady asked her, "Are these [apples] the bubble gum flavored ones?" Maria: "Um, NO. I want my kids to like APPLE FLAVORED APPLES!" (That was me paraphrasing Maria's explanation about their conversation) Well, I looked a little further into these so-called "FLAVORED APPLES." I mean, SERIOUSLY?! I'm appalled. The website for Crazy Apples says that they are "GMO free, 100% natural, no added sugars or preservatives" but they also say, "We can't tell you exactly how we do it, but we can tell you that magic doesn't compromise a Crazy Apple's wholesome start as a crisp, fresh apple." Thanks, "Crazy Apple," but until you tell me what you're putting in that thing and how it becomes a "bubblegum apple," my kids are going nowhere near one!
The scary thing is that schools around the country are offering these apples in the school lunches! Check out what's new foods were offered at the School Nutrition Association's national convention held in Sin City (coincidence?) in 2009. Jerusha Klemperer, of The Slow Food USA Blog, says, "My personal favorite from the show was the Crazy Apple. In an attempt
to get kids to eat more fruit, this company has developed apples that
taste like bubble gum, cotton candy and tropical blast. Candy-flavored
apples????? Next thing you know, they’ll be making bacon-flavored
hamburger patties. Oh wait, they already do that…" Jerusha, you are my new best friend!
Folks, I don't know where this tangled food web ends. I don't even know how to get to the bottom of this! I could probably study apples for a YEAR and still not understand before I moved onto, oh, strawberries! This is RIDICULOUS! At what point did we become a country where we have every inalienable right...except for the right to know what's in our foods and how they process them?! This same country, then, decided to tell us all that we're fat and require that we give our children chemically cleaned, freeze dried, sandblasted apple slices in our happy meals (that is OBVIOUSLY a gross exaggeration on my part...I'm relatively sure they don't sandblast their apple slices)! So much for the "happy" in the meal! Maybe they should rename them (Mystery Meals, anyone?).
Wednesday, May 2, 2012
Kelly reports: McDonald's "Apple" Dippers
WHAT do they PUT on the apple dippers?!!!
Am I the only one who has ever wondered this?
You bite into them. They are the TEXTURE of apples.
They are not at ALL showing signs of browning.
They taste NOTHING like APPLES!
WHAT CHEMICALS are they putting on those things?
Furthermore, can we even call them apples if they don't look like an apple is supposed to look after having been sliced, and they don't smell or taste like an apple is supposed to smell or taste?
I tried to research this further, but the McDonald's website has little to no information on their "apples."
An article written by Melanie Warner and published in the New York Times states this:
Thanks, McDonald's, but I think I'll stick to the french fries!
Am I the only one who has ever wondered this?
You bite into them. They are the TEXTURE of apples.
They are not at ALL showing signs of browning.
They taste NOTHING like APPLES!
WHAT CHEMICALS are they putting on those things?
Furthermore, can we even call them apples if they don't look like an apple is supposed to look after having been sliced, and they don't smell or taste like an apple is supposed to smell or taste?
I tried to research this further, but the McDonald's website has little to no information on their "apples."
An article written by Melanie Warner and published in the New York Times states this:
"Each day, 50,000 shiny, fire-engine-red Gala apples work their way
through a sprawling factory in Swedesboro, N.J. Inside, 26 machines wash
them, core them, peel them, seed them, slice them and chill them. At
the end of the line, they are dunked in a solution of calcium ascorbate
and then deposited into little green bags featuring a jogging Ronald
McDonald.
From there, the bags make their way in refrigerated trucks to
refrigerated containers in cavernous distribution centers, and then to
thousands of McDonald's restaurants up and down the Eastern Seaboard. No
more than 14 days after leaving the plant, the fruit will take the
place of French fries in some child's Happy Meal."
Do you mean to tell me that whatever you put on these apples will keep them looking this "fresh" for FOURTEEN DAYS?! I think I'll go slice and apple now and show you what IT looks like in FOURTEEN DAYS...then YOU can decide for YOURSELVES whether or not they are a good alternative to FRIES!
Tuesday, May 1, 2012
Kristin's Day 23
Anyhow...I'm slowly getting through this Rex Russell book: What the Bible says about Healthy Living. Before this book, I was cranking through books like a PRO. This one? Yeah, not so much. It's a little...well...boring, but it's good info so I'm gonna plow through.
So, today...I was reading about oils and meats. I'm not gonna focus on the oils cause my head hurts too much to think about it, but I'll let you in on the meat thing. The Old Testament law set up rules on what meats to eat - some were 'clean' and some were 'unclean'.
PIGS - unclean (I knew that one)
BAT - unclean (Do you know anyone who eats bat?)
VULTURE - unclean (ummm, duh)
Then this is what got me...
Crabs, lobster, shrimp, scallops - UNCLEAN?
Yeah, in the Old Testament Jews couldn't eat shrimp! I didn't know that. Thankfully, Peter got that whole vision thing about God making all meat 'clean' in the New Testament. If you wanna read about that...read Acts 11
So Rex Russell breaks down why he thinks God set those rules Old Testament rules up. Turns out, pigs...eat ANYTHING. By anything, I mean dead things, trash, poop, you name it - they eat it and they don't know when to quit. Now, I'm sure pig farmers feed the pigs we eat good stuff, right? Well, I think I want to find out cause I love me some bacon, but if the pig ate poo? I might rethink that, well...maybe.
Shellfish are bottom feeders. They take the toxins out of the water and make it clean. They eat what all the other fish near the surface of the water leave behind...get the point? They are dirty little creatures, but boy! Do they taste good!
Trust me, Rex Russell had a WHOLE lot to say that I will not regurgetate here, but I don't really think about what I'm eating like that. Before I crack open a crab, I do not comtemplate what it had to eat before it came on my plate. Thanks Rex Russell...I'm not sure where I'm gonna go from here, but I won't think of eating crabs the same. I will still eat them, though...lol.
Breakfast - Potatoes and unsweetened ketchup w/ a spoonful of PB and grapefruit juice
Lunch - Avocado with corn chips
Mid Afternoon - Apple and PB
Dinner - Carrots and Hummus (no, I did not ask Kelly what she was having...see her post. We had the same dinner, lol)
Dessert - Popcorn
PS (follow-up from yesterday) I have not looked at my number of post hits today (:
So, today...I was reading about oils and meats. I'm not gonna focus on the oils cause my head hurts too much to think about it, but I'll let you in on the meat thing. The Old Testament law set up rules on what meats to eat - some were 'clean' and some were 'unclean'.
PIGS - unclean (I knew that one)
BAT - unclean (Do you know anyone who eats bat?)
VULTURE - unclean (ummm, duh)
Then this is what got me...
Crabs, lobster, shrimp, scallops - UNCLEAN?
Yeah, in the Old Testament Jews couldn't eat shrimp! I didn't know that. Thankfully, Peter got that whole vision thing about God making all meat 'clean' in the New Testament. If you wanna read about that...read Acts 11
So Rex Russell breaks down why he thinks God set those rules Old Testament rules up. Turns out, pigs...eat ANYTHING. By anything, I mean dead things, trash, poop, you name it - they eat it and they don't know when to quit. Now, I'm sure pig farmers feed the pigs we eat good stuff, right? Well, I think I want to find out cause I love me some bacon, but if the pig ate poo? I might rethink that, well...maybe.
Shellfish are bottom feeders. They take the toxins out of the water and make it clean. They eat what all the other fish near the surface of the water leave behind...get the point? They are dirty little creatures, but boy! Do they taste good!
Trust me, Rex Russell had a WHOLE lot to say that I will not regurgetate here, but I don't really think about what I'm eating like that. Before I crack open a crab, I do not comtemplate what it had to eat before it came on my plate. Thanks Rex Russell...I'm not sure where I'm gonna go from here, but I won't think of eating crabs the same. I will still eat them, though...lol.
Breakfast - Potatoes and unsweetened ketchup w/ a spoonful of PB and grapefruit juice
Lunch - Avocado with corn chips
Mid Afternoon - Apple and PB
Dinner - Carrots and Hummus (no, I did not ask Kelly what she was having...see her post. We had the same dinner, lol)
Dessert - Popcorn
PS (follow-up from yesterday) I have not looked at my number of post hits today (:
Kelly's DAY 23
Breakfast: Cantaloupe and OJ
Lunch: Corn salad and Chickpeas
Dinner: Carrots and Hummus
I would call myself a "runner." I mean, I have some friends who are "RUNNERS!" I'm just a "runner." As in, I run 5 miles or more 3-4 times a week. I've completed two half marathons (with times I was happy with) and numerous 5Ks. I don't train for 5Ks; I just do them to do them to waste $20+ and get another running t-shirt. I wondered what this fast would do to my running. I totally thought it would do GOOD things, but it turns out that I think my body actually NEEDS meat to do things like...RUN....and...THINK...and...complete a SENTENCE (Is it even feasible that I've gotten DUMBER in the last 23 days?)! Anyhow, I ran five miles tonight...five...hard...miles. Actually, running instantaneously got harder on day one (I fully acknowledge that this could be purely mental. Running, after all, is probably about 90% mental).
During my run today, I sucked in a bug. This has happened on numerous occasions in the past. If you're a "runner" or a "RUNNER," then you, too, have sucked in a bug. Usually when that happens, I cough and hack and gasp and nearly die (you get the picture). Then, I spend a good two minutes spitting...to make sure I don't have remnant bug in my being. Today, I simply swallowed. I knew I was delirious when I caught myself thinking "Hmm...I wonder if I got any protein outta that." (For all you squeamish people out there, it was a very small bug) !)
So, I'm sorry that I haven't had any new information on our food supply or even too much godly insight into what's going on inside spiritually speaking the last couple of days. I'm focusing on some big things that I will be able to tell you about next week sometime.
Anyhow, I'm going to call this a day, pour myself another large glass of OJ, and watch some tv. Have a good night!
Lunch: Corn salad and Chickpeas
Dinner: Carrots and Hummus
I would call myself a "runner." I mean, I have some friends who are "RUNNERS!" I'm just a "runner." As in, I run 5 miles or more 3-4 times a week. I've completed two half marathons (with times I was happy with) and numerous 5Ks. I don't train for 5Ks; I just do them to do them to waste $20+ and get another running t-shirt. I wondered what this fast would do to my running. I totally thought it would do GOOD things, but it turns out that I think my body actually NEEDS meat to do things like...RUN....and...THINK...and...complete a SENTENCE (Is it even feasible that I've gotten DUMBER in the last 23 days?)! Anyhow, I ran five miles tonight...five...hard...miles. Actually, running instantaneously got harder on day one (I fully acknowledge that this could be purely mental. Running, after all, is probably about 90% mental).
During my run today, I sucked in a bug. This has happened on numerous occasions in the past. If you're a "runner" or a "RUNNER," then you, too, have sucked in a bug. Usually when that happens, I cough and hack and gasp and nearly die (you get the picture). Then, I spend a good two minutes spitting...to make sure I don't have remnant bug in my being. Today, I simply swallowed. I knew I was delirious when I caught myself thinking "Hmm...I wonder if I got any protein outta that." (For all you squeamish people out there, it was a very small bug) !)
So, I'm sorry that I haven't had any new information on our food supply or even too much godly insight into what's going on inside spiritually speaking the last couple of days. I'm focusing on some big things that I will be able to tell you about next week sometime.
Anyhow, I'm going to call this a day, pour myself another large glass of OJ, and watch some tv. Have a good night!
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