Oprah interviewed Michael Pollan yesterday morning and I watched it for about 20 minutes after I got Ellie off to school. Michael Pollan is the author of some books about our terrible food industry and how it's giving all of us diabetes. He has a simple formula for a healthy diet: Eat food. Don't worry about fat or carbs or nutrients or anything. Just worry about whether it's real food or processed food. I decided to make pizza for dinner last night, but if I want to eat actual pizza, I have to make it myself. Frozen pizza isn't food.
Luckily, I've been doing a lot with my bread machine recently, so I had things ready to go to make homemade pizza dough. I just needed the stuff to make my homemade pizza sauce plus the toppings. So I ran off to the grocery store to get my ingredients. I also picked up ingredients to make homemade granola bars, homemade mac and cheese, homemade ketchup and mustard, and homemade hummus.
On the way back, a guy rearended me, which I will note would not have happened if I hadn't made that special trip to the store. I was fine, but the back fender was smashed. When I got home, I had to talk to my insurance and his insurance and the mechanic to arrange for the estimate and Ellie had to go to gymnastics. So I asked Greg if he would take Ellie to her class while I started dinner. There was no way I was going to deal with four pounds of roma tomatoes after all that, so homemade pizza sauce was out of the question. Thank goodness I had some Trader Joe's pizza sauce in the fridge. It's all natural and it doesn't seem to have a bunch of chemicals in it, but I'm not sure if Michael Pollan would call it food or not. In the end, the pizza was yummy and a lot of work.
I love Michael Pollan's message. It's so simple and I do think he's right. But it's impossible. Also, I made my homemade granola bars last night and I gave one to Ellie and she took one bite and announced she doesn't like it. I made enough to fill a 9x13-inch pan. And she doesn't like it. I even put chocolate chips in it specifically so that she will like it and she doesn't like it. What am I going to do with that much granola?! I made it so that I can send it to school with Ellie as a snack. Oh screw it. I'm going to send it to school with her anyway.
I am still going to make the mac and cheese, ketchup, mustard, and hummus. Maybe not all today, since I have to take the car in. But it's a good thing I'm not totally committed to this homemade thing or you'd never hear from me again. I'd always be cooking.
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8 comments:
Maybe the birds would like the granola, or the squirrels. I admire your enthusiasm. Maybe you could do one thing at a time. I would start with the pizza dough. Maybe end with that, too.
I made the pizza dough last night, but it hasn't ended with that. I made french onion soup and mushrooms tonight, plus I got the hoisin beef stew ready for tomorrow. I could have a completely homemade week! Other than the birthday dinner, of course.
Well, this guy agrees with you.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJMkl04UgGc
I like the message too, but.... I'm not a cook. I can't stand to cook. And I'm tired when I get home. Did I mention that I don't like to cook?? But I do like the message.. and he's probably right. Maybe I should just become a rabbit and stick to salads?
Lisa, we have some awesome all-natural pizza recipes that you use to make pizza on the grill. It's terribly fun to grill pizza, and it didn't take nearly as long as I expected. Perhaps when spring arrives?
If you want to eat healthy, all you can think about is food and how long it will take to prepare the next "real" meal. Very tiring.
That's totally true. People talk about eating like our ancestors did, but our ancestors spent half their lives getting and preparing food.
When you next decide to stoop to frozen pizza, I can wholeheartedly recommend "Home Run Inn". It's a "family-owned, local favorite".
xxooxx
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