Comments on: Food Safety http://www.completelyedible.com/2009/05/food-safety/ I like food. Mon, 14 Jun 2010 20:01:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Stacy http://www.completelyedible.com/2009/05/food-safety/comment-page-1/#comment-83 Stacy Tue, 26 May 2009 20:20:42 +0000 http://www.completelyedible.com/?p=220#comment-83 Regarding eating out - I admit that when at a friend's house, sometimes there are no other options. I can eat before hand or decline dinner invitations and appear rude or anti social, or I can go and manage as best I can. I try and pick the best choices and limit myself to the worst choices, but I do my best and hope that my eating so well at home has got to help prevent these occassional forays from damaging my health. It isn't as bad as it could be since many of my friends enjoy cooking from scratch. With restaurants, it is sort of the same thing. I try to avoid things I know are the worst and go for things that seem like better options, hoping that my standard food at home will help keep me healthy if I accidentally have some corn oil or something. It helps that I have a lot of healthy eating options. A little cafe down the street is all organic, a restaurant in the neighborhood uses all local ingredients, etc. I also try to avoid buying and eating snacks while out by eating before I go out, or keeping something like a Lara Bar or piece of fruit with me. Lara Bars are great and have a minimum of ingredients, excluding things like soy and wheat and including things like figs and coconuts. Not perfect (the nuts aren't soaked), but still a very good option. Regarding eating out – I admit that when at a friend’s house, sometimes there are no other options. I can eat before hand or decline dinner invitations and appear rude or anti social, or I can go and manage as best I can. I try and pick the best choices and limit myself to the worst choices, but I do my best and hope that my eating so well at home has got to help prevent these occassional forays from damaging my health. It isn’t as bad as it could be since many of my friends enjoy cooking from scratch.

With restaurants, it is sort of the same thing. I try to avoid things I know are the worst and go for things that seem like better options, hoping that my standard food at home will help keep me healthy if I accidentally have some corn oil or something. It helps that I have a lot of healthy eating options. A little cafe down the street is all organic, a restaurant in the neighborhood uses all local ingredients, etc.

I also try to avoid buying and eating snacks while out by eating before I go out, or keeping something like a Lara Bar or piece of fruit with me. Lara Bars are great and have a minimum of ingredients, excluding things like soy and wheat and including things like figs and coconuts. Not perfect (the nuts aren’t soaked), but still a very good option.

]]> By: FoodRenegade http://www.completelyedible.com/2009/05/food-safety/comment-page-1/#comment-67 FoodRenegade Fri, 15 May 2009 22:18:01 +0000 http://www.completelyedible.com/?p=220#comment-67 Our biggest stumbling block is eating out. While I have no problem being incredibly choosy about the food I buy to prepare myself, I'm far less choosy when it comes to food that OTHER people prepare for me (particularly restaurants). It does make me pause before eating out, but it's still hard to pass up on the convenience factor when we're tired or we're out longer than we expected, etc. It's my goal to cut back on eating out simply by planning better (i.e. leaving the house armed with healthy, nourishing snacks!). Guess we'll see! Thanks for sharing this in today's Fight Back Fridays carnival. Cheers, KristenM (AKA FoodRenegade) Our biggest stumbling block is eating out. While I have no problem being incredibly choosy about the food I buy to prepare myself, I’m far less choosy when it comes to food that OTHER people prepare for me (particularly restaurants). It does make me pause before eating out, but it’s still hard to pass up on the convenience factor when we’re tired or we’re out longer than we expected, etc. It’s my goal to cut back on eating out simply by planning better (i.e. leaving the house armed with healthy, nourishing snacks!).

Guess we’ll see!

Thanks for sharing this in today’s Fight Back Fridays carnival.

Cheers,
KristenM
(AKA FoodRenegade)

]]> By: Laryssa @ Heaven In The Home http://www.completelyedible.com/2009/05/food-safety/comment-page-1/#comment-66 Laryssa @ Heaven In The Home Fri, 15 May 2009 18:31:04 +0000 http://www.completelyedible.com/?p=220#comment-66 We have stopped eating most processed foods. The more healthy foods we eat and the more we find out what's in our foods, the better we feel. I've gotten to the place that's hard for me to eat out! We have stopped eating most processed foods. The more healthy foods we eat and the more we find out what’s in our foods, the better we feel. I’ve gotten to the place that’s hard for me to eat out!

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