These are the last five of the ten questions I posted as my biggest hitters when people ask me about food.
6. How did you find this information about food, like what to eat and what not to eat?
We have streaming-only Netflix for $8/month, and Hulu Plus through a Roku for $8/month. There are lots of great documentaries on food, bees, and just about anything else you could want to see a documentary about. Here is a list of the food documentaries we have watched in the last couple of months:
- Food, Inc.
- Food Matters
- Forks Over Knives
- The Future of Food
- Fat, Sick, and Nearly Dead
- Fresh
- King Corn
- Ingredients
- Get Vegucated!
I also read. In the last few months I’ve read the following food-related non-fiction books:
- Fair Food (Hesterman)
- Fed Up! (Wu)
- The World According to Monsanto (Robin)
- Turn Here Sweet Corn: Organic Farming Works (Diffley)
- The Omnivore’s Dilemma (Pollan)
- Food for Life (Barnard)
I regularly read blogs that have great recipes with real food and/or offer information while referencing their sources. Here are a few of my favorites:
- A Real Food Lover
- This Chick Cooks
- Hebron Acres
- The Healthy Foodie
- Deliciously Organic
- 100 Days of Real Food
- Frugally Sustainable
- Nourished Kitchen
- Cheers to Well-Being
- Marinating Online
Every one of these sources of information leads you to another source. It’s a pretty “organic” process. Ha ha.
7. Really? You only drink water?
Yes. I have lots of opinions about this. I’m sort of a pain in the ass that way.
8. How do you get your kids to eat all those veggies?
This one’s pretty simple. Richard or I make one dinner, and that’s what’s for dinner. I tell them if they don’t like it, there are apples and carrots in the fridge. Go nuts. Sometimes they choose the apples and carrots, but not very often. They almost always eat some of everything, and if they really don’t like it they might go for a carrot after dinner. We only allow dessert (ice cream) on Tuesday and Friday nights, so we save ourselves the trouble of repeating the mantra “Eat your veggies if you want dessert!” No bargaining. I don’t care how much they do or don’t eat on Tuesday and Friday nights. They get their dessert regardless. It takes a lot of stress out of the equation. Kids aren’t going to starve themselves. If they know there aren’t going to be chicken nuggets or macaroni and cheese featured on the regular menu, they’re not going to hold out and go hungry waiting for those things.
Plus, our kids ROCK.
9. Monsanto?
BAD. Very bad. Very scary. I get a little tongue-tied on this one because it’s so big. I’m not going to write about it because others have done it better. I’m pretty sure Monsanto information is in all of the documentaries and books I listed above. Just google “Monsanto GMO” and you’ll be reading for hours. ‘Nuff said.
10. How do you find time for all this stuff?
Usually between 8:30 pm and 11:00 pm, after the kids are in bed. I also read a book while eating my lunch at work, or sometimes read blogs on my phone. Richard and I are fortunate enough to be able to have a “date night” every Friday night, and we’ll usually do some grocery shopping and/or check out a new food source. When the farmers markets start up we’ll be taking the kids to them every weekend and there’s always lots of information there.
So that’s pretty much it. What do you think?
