My Food's Long Distance Relationship

 If you took a look at my third blog "'Too Busy' for a Healthy Lifestyle" post you can see that most of what I eat is processed foods. In this case, I do not have much of a  first hand, nor a second-hand connection with who grows the food I'm eating. If we took a look at my typical McDonalds breakfast several people come between me and my meal. From Cattle ranchers to the people who package and serve my food.

An overview of what comes between our meals.

I notice that many fruits and vegetables at the store come pre-chopped and packaged for on the go. This refers back to my previous blog it is much easier to grab and go than to do it yourself especially when you run a tight schedule. I came across this tweet in tweeter and really made me realize how pointless some of the plastic packagings really are.

tweet from twitter.

While at the grocery store I decided to observe what other people had in their shopping carts. I came across various people who were wasting plastic bags. I noticed that a lot of people add a plastic bag to their bananas when the put it in their shopping cart. I didn't get it. I mean the bananas aren't loose, so there is no reason to do that. While I was at the store I found the opportunity to take a quick picture of this habit in use as well as buying the pre-chopped and wrapped products rather than the entire fruit.

You can see precut and packaged watermelon as well as bagged bananas. 

I am not at all satisfied with how I get my foods most of the time. I know I could do better by not wasting so much unnecessary plastic. Many of the vegetables, we buy come pre-chopped, packaged, or wrapped in plastic.

My Family and I could really start improving in taking advantage of our local Baytown's farm market in order to reduce plastic waste. By taking the time to store and chop our own fruits and vegetables ourslef would also help.

An ad I found on Facebook for Baytown Farmers Market.

The only primary relationship I have is with the different types of papers that we harvest in our backyard. It is nice to go to our backyard and being able to pick peppers whenever we want some spice on our dish. I would like to start planting other plants to improve my first-hand relationship with the food my family eats.

peppers from our plants.

I feel like having a better connection with the food I eat will help my diet and in knowing what I'm actually putting in my body rather than a whole bunch of ingredients I never seen before.
Taking a look at the box of processed mashed potato ingredients and homemade mash potatoes you can easily recognize all the ingredients were in the box one I only recognize "potato flakes".