Day 9: Let's Eat!

Let's Eat! ... Not this! If you can not tell what this is, it is Vienna Sausages. This right here is one of the reasons I'm going to try vegetarianism. (No offense to those who enjoy eating these) Caroline likes to eat these and just seeing her cook them and smelling them when she sits at the table sets me on edge...sorry Caroline! I've never been a big hot dog/mystery meat/heavily preserved meat eater and a recent documentary I have seen has sealed my fate a little bit more.
The other day, my dad and I watch a TV program called "Food Inc." which was a documentary about today's food industry and how it has been taken over my over processing and unhealthy production procedures. It really grossed me out and made me kind of sad. I am a very visual person so this was probably not a good idea for me to be watching this show. I just could not take my eyes from the screen, though. I learned a lot of things like the fact that the number of companies controlling our meat production and consumption is in the single digits, and farmers are being paid and are held under contract not to tell us, the consumer, how our food is raised and processed. We need to know what is in our food, people!
With this said, I have decided I need to become more aware of what I am putting in my body. This is not to say that I think that being a vegetarian is going to totally do that for me, but at this moment in time, especially with all the mystery meat my school tries to feed us, I'm going to turn towards the healthy vegetable alternatives. I need to have more of those in my diet anyway.
Now for some happier photos. I decided that today I would make all my pictures ones of the food I consumed today. Enjoy!

Today I was really wanting some avocado, so when I went to the grocery store with my mom we got some guacamole mix. It was delicious! There is still some left over so I can't wait to eat the rest tomorrow!  


  


We also picked up some pizza! This is my favorite food. Ask anyone, and they would probably tell you that I could eat it every day. It's true...I'm a pizza fanatic and there is nothing I can do about it. This one was a thin crust cheese and tomato pizza. I'm definitely going to buy this brand again because it was great. My mom and I at the WHOLE THING!

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For dinner we had rice mixed with Lima beans, green beans, tomatoes, and kidney beans topped with cheese and with French bread. It was so good! I will be eating the the leftovers tomorrow too.

 We didn't sit down for dessert today, but I did spend a little bit of time this afternoon making something sweet! I posted the other day about how I liked to cook, and here's some proof... Caroline helped me make some homemade Reeses. I guess I would have to call them something else because they aren't shaped like Reeses though. It was pretty fun. I like making things from scratch. Hopefully before I head back to school, I will be able to make some more stuff in the kitchen!

I hope everyone got a good start to their week. You made it past this dreary Monday! Yay!