I'm eating peanut m&ms right now. Technically not the most healthy thing to enjoy, but they ARE pink and going towards Breast Cancer awareness so does that counteract the chocolate-processed goodness that is rotting my body? maybe...
So now I apparently have a few followers of this blog- wahoo. Prof. Henke wants me to talk more about the details of my farm experience and food, so don't mind the change of pace...
FARM: Today was COLD and RAINY and therefore not so much that pretty picture of idealized farming that we all have grown accustomed to. We started out by cleaning out a bunch of lugs with freezing cold water and then harvested some brussel sprouts- another vegetable I've never eaten or seen live. Celeriac is still the ugliest, but brussel sprouts are pretty freaking weird looking...
After the brussel sprouts, we grabbed some squash from the greenhouse, cleaned up a bunch of cabbage, and then picked some more celeriac. The celeriac was disgusting today because the soil was so wet... when you yanked one of the ugly thinks up it had pounds of cold wet soil with worms all over it which was near impossible to chop off. I felt like Armanzo from our Farmer Boy book, bearing the terrible cold weather (40degrees I'm pathetic) to dutifully complete my job.
We spent the last hour gossiping and doing the onions in the warm greenhouse, which was much appreciated after the cold. I know I've mentioned it before and now its awkward because Amy reads this, but I just LOVE her and Chris and how alternative/hippie they are. I can just see their little kid frolicking around the farm in cloth diapers, picking flowers and chasing chickens. I know we have a tendency to idealize farm life but I definitely think there is something to be said for being an outdoors kid- something I definitely was not.
FOOD: I always WANT to eat healthy- honest. I start out each day ready for my new healthy lifestyle. Every summer I go on a health kick, exercising and eating right... and every school year by mid-September I'm back to my lazy academic self.
So today is brought to you by the vegetable CORN! We just learned in the movie King Corn about how everything we eat is corn and how disgusting it all is... the "unhealthiest crap on earth" is feed corn which is produced in excess in the US and used to feed much of the livestock which we then consume and to create high fructose corn syrup which is in practically everything. I don't eat red meat and TRY to eat fairly healthy so I figured I probably wouldn't have TOO much corn in one day of my life right? WRONG:
For BREAKFAST I had a ZONE breakfast bar... I'm going to grab one now for nutritional facts: OK- so its chocolate peanut butter, 210 calories, 7g fat, 24g carbs, and 14g protein. 1st ingredient is soy protein nuggets- wtf is that? OK- soy protein nuggets are "soy protein isolate, tapioca starch, and salt" so thats not so bad... the next ingredient is peanut butter fudge which is corn syrup and a bunch of other weird things that are hard to say. Corn syrup also has its own spot on the ingredients list after the chocolate flavored coating. I also had two gummy vitamins which were the greatest creation ever because finally at the ripe age of 21 I am capable of remembering to take my vitamins.
LUNCH: For lunch I had turkey chili from Trader Joe's with a piece of a whole wheat pita and Parmesan and Romano KRAFT cheese on top. Turkey Chili facts: 230 calories, 3g fat, 30g carbs, and 21g protein. The ingredients are pretty good (meaning its comprised of foods that are real and not chemicals)... "water, dark turkey meat, beans, dehydrated onions, tomato paste, green chili puree, dehydrated bell peppers... until close to the end where we have modified corn starch. The wrap HAS NO CORN (yayyyy), 120 cals and some other stuff... and the cheese also looks clean.
DINNER: Life goes downhill... I got a side salad and soup from the COOP so we have NO IDEA whats in that stuff... side salad has a little ranch dressing on top which probably has high fructose corn syrup, soup was barley and mushroom. THEN I ate two of my roommates fried macaroni and cheese nuggets which were probably the most disgusting thing ever, but in that tempting way- like how McDonald's food is disgusting. THEN I ate like 39282098 peanut m&ms as mentioned earlier. And if you check the time of this entry... its only 6:20pm right now so I'm sure I'll end up snacking on something later tonight...
^DISGUSTING RIGHT?
Throughout the day I drank a lot of water- I find that no matter how disgusting my diet, the secret to feeling healthy is to drink a TON of water at all times so I try to drink at LEAST two liters a day.
So that was my food. Arnold Schwarzenegger, the governator, is on TV so I'm going to laugh for a while and watch this. Thanks for reading!
Jenna
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