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"Food Rules - an Eater's Manual" - Veggie - 13-12-2020
I love this book by Michael Pollan. Its small, funny and easy to read and makes a lot of sense.
The Food Rules are summarised with 7 simple words:-
Eat Food
Not too much
Mostly Plants.
Sounds simple but when he says "Eat Food" he means food "real food" not highly processed concoctions created by scientists
Rule 2 stands out to me "Don't eat anything your grandmother wouldn't recognise as food". Imagine she's standing beside you in the supermarket and she picks up a plastic tube of some sort of snack. Would she know what it was? If not, don't buy it!
To save you buying the book, the Rules are summarised at http://regionone.thediocese.net/Customer-Content/regionone/CMS/files/foodrules.pdf
Tell me which ones you can relate to. I'm going to try a bit harder to follow these from now on.
RE: "Food Rules - an Eater's Manual" - Roitelet - 13-12-2020
I think that I can relate to most of the rules.
RE: "Food Rules - an Eater's Manual" - Bren - 14-12-2020
I supposed by growing your own veg its easier to follow those rules.
I like number 15.
15. Eat foods made from ingredients that you can picture in their raw state or growing in nature