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my beef with life
Looking at my early eating habits, takes me back to my childhood
Date: 5/16/2005 7:22:25 AM ( 19 y ) ... viewed 3138 times It occured to me as I was preparing the salad for dinner last evening, just how food has affected all the stagaes of my life.
I love food--- all foods. I love to look at them, touch them, smell them, turn them around in my hands, and I always love preparing them, depending on whatever method I was using at the time.
As children, my sisters and I were not allowed to eat sweets(sugar) or white bread, or soda. I never had a coke until I was well into my teens, and I can only remember having one root beer floot when I was in the 6th grade. Of course I had them later on when I could escape the eyes of my parents. I never questioned or cared that I didn't eat sweets. In fact to this day, I will pass a sweet for a savory flavor anytime.
We ate a lot of raw food as children, in many ways, my mother was very progressive in health views, and went to great lengths to keep us healthy. Eggnogs, cod liver oil, raw veggies for snacks, abundance of fresh fruit. Growing up in the northwest, we had fruit trees and nut trees. I can remember gathering walnuts in the fall, bringing them in and letting them dry under the stove in our living room. Of course a vegetable garden was always a part of my childhood, in fact as long as my parents were alive there was a garden a magical garden, on a slop, that commanded your attention when you walked into the back yard with the smell of vegetables, flowers, and herbs all mixed together in a wonderful alive pot-pourri of color and smell.
We also ate a lot of red meat. My mother didn't like fish and I can't remember eating any at all. The only thing I can say about eating all that meat, is at least back then, the animals were raised in a more ethical way. My parents used to tell the story: how I could eat an entire T-bone steak by the time I was 3yrs. old.. So I didn't have a sugar addiction, I had a beef addiction.
For years it was my food of choice, not pies cakes or cookies or ice cream, I would gladly pass up any dessert for a good piece of MEAT.
Years later, when I had my health food stores, I had organic beef and I
did feel very virtuous knowing that I was eating and feeding my own the best beef.
Over time, reading and my association with people who were vegeterians, (I began to worry about the health of my children and my own) I slowly began to evolve into another consciousness, a world without beef.
Much has gone on between than and now, many stories, many turns in my road, detours and standstills. In my quest to achieve a high level of health and give my body the enviornment it deserves to achieve those goals: I have fallen off the wagon many times. I practice my abstaining from beef one day at a time.
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