Starting my Spring Detox Early this year: What;s the Story with these Organic Vegies?
August 1st 2007 02:55
Maybe it is because I am a little hung over today or maybe it is because I don't want to feel like a victim of Advertising, or maybe it is so I can gloat when I see all the Ads for Spring Detox,,,I am not quite sure but today I have decided to start a Spring Detox in Winter in anticipation of the hot summer Global Warming is promising to bring.......
My Dad is a Naturopath so I have the advantage of free advice and Free stuff (there is the downside of the incessant lectures) I am doing a Metagenics program which is going to be Torture; 2 weeks of having supplements for two whole meals a day, then it drops off to a manageble one meal per day. I am stressing about which meals I will skip already and I imagine food is all I am going to think about (and Beer) for the next two weeks...but I only do this once a year so I may as well follow my Dad's advice.
I have decided to go all out on this one so am doing something I have promised myself I would do FOREVER and that is start eating organic food...so off I went like a good little consumer to MacroWholefoods to check out what all the fuss is about with this Organic food stuff......one thing struck me as extremely odd. If it is so good why the hell does it all look so small and sick?. I am guessing the answer is probably that all the other fruit and Veg I buy has been genetically modified or something hideous like that but everythnig seemed so much smaller. The Banana's are at least half the size to what I am used to and the sweet poptato looked just plain freaky......
I honestly would have thought that food grown without Chemicals would be bigger, better, stronger......I guess I was sadly mistaken. and as for the price, at those rates I can only afford one meal a day, for example mince meat is $10 per kilo more. That is a HUGE difference.... At least the meat looks good but it would want to for the price.
Anyhow off I go to make my miserbale powder smoothy, I am cheating and adding a Banana, for self preservation as I really don't want to chew my arm off at my extremely important 2pm meeting..........
My Dad is a Naturopath so I have the advantage of free advice and Free stuff (there is the downside of the incessant lectures) I am doing a Metagenics program which is going to be Torture; 2 weeks of having supplements for two whole meals a day, then it drops off to a manageble one meal per day. I am stressing about which meals I will skip already and I imagine food is all I am going to think about (and Beer) for the next two weeks...but I only do this once a year so I may as well follow my Dad's advice.
I have decided to go all out on this one so am doing something I have promised myself I would do FOREVER and that is start eating organic food...so off I went like a good little consumer to MacroWholefoods to check out what all the fuss is about with this Organic food stuff......one thing struck me as extremely odd. If it is so good why the hell does it all look so small and sick?. I am guessing the answer is probably that all the other fruit and Veg I buy has been genetically modified or something hideous like that but everythnig seemed so much smaller. The Banana's are at least half the size to what I am used to and the sweet poptato looked just plain freaky......
I honestly would have thought that food grown without Chemicals would be bigger, better, stronger......I guess I was sadly mistaken. and as for the price, at those rates I can only afford one meal a day, for example mince meat is $10 per kilo more. That is a HUGE difference.... At least the meat looks good but it would want to for the price.
Photo Courtesy of Morgue File - Thankyou
Anyhow off I go to make my miserbale powder smoothy, I am cheating and adding a Banana, for self preservation as I really don't want to chew my arm off at my extremely important 2pm meeting..........
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Comment by David
I'm a fan of organic food. It might cost twice as much but you only eat a quarter as much because the food actually contains nutrients, and you get that satisfied feeling without having to pile the plate up half-a-kilometre high. That makes organic food twice as cheap as genetically-modified cardboard doesn't it?
As for food supplements? Nup. Not my gig. That's about as sensible as using a blow-up doll. You either want a decent meal or you don't. Food is one of life's legitimate pleasures. Why make life harder than it already is, unless you're a sado-masochist, that is.
The best detox diet? Start eating sensibly, do a bit of exercise, and leave new-age fads alone? Some of the fittest people I ever encountered in my life were farmers. After lamb roasts and vegetables drizzling in animal fat, they'd load up on half a loaf of bread with lashings of butter, jam and cream. Why? They were bloody hungry because they'd been working all day long, not sitting around trying to invent a diet? Modern dieticians are so stuffed in the head it's unbelievable.
David ...
Comment by katyzzz
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Certainly there seems to be something drastically wrong with our food.
I don't like supplements, either.
I'm for mustard leaves at present, boy, are they nutrient rich.
katyzzz...off to the morgue did you say?, my dear, I hope not.
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Tracy..... yes I am with you on the simple things like fruit and Veg, back to basics, I am not sure how long I can sustain the Supplement torture..I am actually cooking my dinner now so i really can't see ho wit can go on......problem is Ill now have to avoid my Father probably until Christmas
And David yes i totally agree this whole process is completely crazy, I am totally regretting even considering it, and putting it out there into the WWW universe because now Ill feel like a phony lying cheating biatch if I back out and don't do it......maybe Ill sneak in at the dead of night and delete this post :
Comment by KylieW
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Good luck on your detox. I must say I too have always wondered why organic fruit and veggies look so sick and miserable. It's a paradox.
Where available I will buy organic fruit and veggies. And chicken (cos the idea of all the hormones that is pumped into chicken freaks me out). But that's about it.
It must be the time of year for detoxing. My sister just started a detox this week too. I can't be bothered.
Kylie
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Comment by Lilla
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*lol* David summed it up pretty much the way I would have said it.
...and as you so rightly mention;
Ooh but the taste, the sheer absolute joy of those remembered flavours of my childhood when we picked all those things off the trees ourselves ..(.well not the bananas, but certainly the apples, pears and gooseberry's, raspberries and black berries... oh yum, they tasted good!
Don't forget to drink lots of water... so many people do forget and 2 litres a day is a detox for most, in itself.
Good Luck with it.
Lilla ...
Comment by Lily
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The Organic fruit and veg shop i worked in years ago, and the one i shop at occasionally now (when i can afford it as their prices are double) had/have excellent quality in their fruit and veg.
I'm not sold on the whole 'organic' thing, but i appreciate that some people out there are trying to get back to real food.
One thing i do know, is that real is tastier.
I'm curious about katyzzz saying there is more bacteria in organic foods.. that has me stumped.
all the best for your body spring clean...
water water water (and many loo trips)
~Lily
Comment by Mountain Fog
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Just go to a major food supermarket, buy a carrot or whatever, and see what it looks like in two days time, even stored in the fridge!
It is the gas the food is stored in, to prevent it ripening, and so it literally goes off when it is put on display.
I am sure, if you grew them yourself, even with fertilizer, they would taste like we remembered when we were kids.
Actually, they did a comparison between organic and commercial/chemical, and found no real difference in vitamins etc...however...they did not use the stuff out of cold long storage I bet!!
When I was litttle, my mum grew all our veggies in our backyard, and even pickled walnuts!!
cheers
fog
Comment by Nickoftime's Sanity Corner
I try and eat organic food a lot, but after a while, the carnivore/drug fiend/chemical whore in me comes out and just wants a greasy old cheeseburger with lots of may and catsup and a big old pint of beer...
Ahh well, guess it's a tradeoff eh? Good luck with the detox...
Take care,
Nick