waking jonas sanoj gnikaw

on eating outside the boxed lunch

so while i was walking around the south lake union area at lunch, meditating to the acoustic version of recycled air, i started drifting thought around the subject of eats.

it bothers me that it seems some part of anything i eat comes out of a box or a package. and i think well that can’t be healthy, and that modern food processing sucks, and we should all be eating more naturally…generally being a big hippie.

then another part of me counters with: well, what is natural? and who told humans what to eat and how to eat it anyway? and if we’re going to get techinical, even fresh food needs to be transported in some fashion, because obviously we don’t all eat out of our own gardens.

then the hippie side says: why not? the huge green push is that we should be more sustainable, and with ever growing population we should take more responsibility to produce our own food in small plots.

then i’m all: ok how efficient is that really? and how is it possible with dense urban areas to do anything but neighborhood gardens? and seriously, only a dedicated few actually get into neighborhood gardens. like hippies.

how is our processed food changing us? is it changing our bodies at all? why don’t i just spend the money on fresh food and spend the extra time in the kitchen?

somehow i always come back to the expectation that everything will improve if i just had a house with a bigger kitchen and space and time and i then i will be gloriously creative and green and efficient and really, this is a huge amount of bullshit.

but i guess it’s fair to let myself spend a little time in my utopian dreamworld.

I find it funny this post comes the day after you bragging up lean cuisine.

Anyway, why not simply support your local farmers market? They grow the produce so you dont have to! More sustainable and their veges taste so much better than store bought. Here, on the farm, it is the perfect time of year … the sweet corn and tomatos are especially to die for.

i know, i love the farmer’s market. there’s one in the u-dist that is close by. part of the reason jared & i end up eating out of boxes is because it’s difficult to cook for two without shopping every other day. otherwise, our stores of food tends to go bad before we eat it.

and yeah, the love of lean cuisine is really more of a lament & money-saving lunch option. if i had to pick though, i still pick lean cuisine over healthy choice frozen entrees.

i hear you on the whole ‘eating for two’ conundrum (mind you I have to eat for one, of course, I eat at the bar every day seeing as how my town doesnt even have a grocery store and I have neither a fridge or stove living in a tent and all). Seems that is the best reason to have kids (personally, I can not think of any others). Maybe you should make neighbor friends where each agrees to cook once a night for everyone else, or some variation on the theme. Then, you only have to cook on a limited basis while being sociable and avoiding the ‘for two’ and ‘having kids’ problems.

Whatever ….

Why are you limiting your frozen boxed lunch options to lean cuisine and healthy choice? I remember marie calendar’s being absolutely phenomenal. I once was paid chad $10 for his marie’s while suffering through a severe bout of the munchies. Regardless, all that crap they put in there to make it ‘lean’ or ‘healthy’ will just give you cancer. Do you drink diet pop as well?