So for the last week or so, Dominique and I have been scaring ourselves silly watching documentary after documentary on how totally MISGUIDED our eating habits, food industry, government regulation, and overall ethics regarding food are.
At this point, I don't want to watch these things anymore. But I can't unlearn what I've been bombarding myself with. Suffice it to say, we are making a few changes around the household. It's amazing what knowledge will do. It creates ideas which leads to action which may quite possibly alter forever the course of your life.
We've been sufficiently educated concerning what is wrong with the system--and we've decided to remove ourselves from it as much as possible. What we don't know is exactly how to deal with this.
The shift has already occurred. We've been eating organic for the last 3 days or so with various unpleasant physiological side affects--wicked gas (theoretically from the addition of vitamins), headaches (presumably from the lack of sugar), and irritability (likely a result of uncertainty and stress related to making major life changes).
We really don't know what we should eat, only a vague idea of what we shouldn't eat. Furthermore, this stuff is expensive. An organic chicken is $17 a pound, weighing around 3 pounds-you're looking at a $51 dinner. That's not acceptable. We need help. We need to know how to keep costs down and eat what we need to eat. If somebody out there has some advice, please post. We've been going to farmer's markets and balking at the prices. We spent about $80 at the co-op on probably four meals, we've been to the other organic grocery store in town and interviewed the cashier. But it's frustrating because we're blind. We don't really even know what to look for. We've been a cog in this machine all of our lives and have escaped, only to find that we don't know how to survive on the outside.
If you're in the dark about this stuff, watch "Food, Inc.", "Food Matters", "The Future of Food." You'll soon realize, something needs to change.
