I drank Pepsi (the glass bottle) with Ness coffee in high school. I could not afford Pepsi every day but it was fancy to get it sometimes. And it was not available in the stores much (communists). I drank a little more when I came in this country because it was so affordable but looking at people I stoped: I did not want to become the “big” American. Soda was not fancy anymore but poison for me. Without health advice my body could not take stuff that I did not know where they came from. First of all in my country Pepsi at that time had quality: glass, real sugar and good flavor. Here soda tasted fake 😩 what?! Is not like in movies? Than… my eyes could not buy food in the stores: it did not look fresh to me, again fake food. The tasteless “plastic” movie looking food. Weep-cream in a spray? Fancy seen in movies. In reality made me puke.
And, please, I don’t want to offend my adopted country, I am a proud American by choice, but my parents raised me so healthy with our own grown food!!!! When you eat good food as a child, your body won’t accept anything else than that.
So for me… eating clean is not because I read health articles, is because of my healthy childhood. My parents taught me the best. Yes, it was less food in the stores and we never had variety but we had basic clean agriculture products.
I spent hours in grocery stores (when I first moved here) to explore all the colors, packaging, tastes… some I could not buy they looked colorful but FAKE!
My dad said when I took him shopping: “how long this chicken was dead for?”
My mom would sacrifice the chicken in the morning and have a delicious stew for dinner. Now that is what my family calls fresh. Nowadays because life is faster they freezes them right the way. For me is easy to be vegetarian here, you can’t find good quality meat much. When I go home I gain some pounds. The best bacon you can ever have is the one my parents make: perfectly chopped and smoked with such a care and love. When my dad smokes it is like a whole ritual… amazing!
Thank you, Karen, for reminding me of the good old times.
Again, I don’t mean to offend anyone, but this is reality for me.
One more thing; we had one little small trash bucket a week. (Family of four)
Love hearing your story Miha & perspective coming from another country. It’s amazing how quickly we lost that here & just how pervasive these chemicals have become in only 2 generations. Getting back to eating real food is one of the best ways to improve health + it’s one of the most delicious!!
I remember that too about trash. We used to fill a huge trash bin every week with our family of four. When we switched to whole food, we realized we only had one small bag of trash sitting in that huge bin every week.
Thanks for sharing these thoughts + memories. Enjoy your Sunday! We are prepping food + preparing a big brunch with our neighbors this morning.
Thermal paper is one of the most popular types of receipt paper on the market. Most retailers use it for cash registers & credit card terminals. It is different from the traditional bond paper in that it is coated with dye and chemicals - specifically high levels of BPA Here is some info https://www.ewg.org/research/bpa-coats-cash-register-receipts
You can easily just begin to swap out plastic for glass little by little. We use a lot of mason jars in our fridge because they are inexpensive, keep food fresh & efficient use of space.
OMG! That picture! You are cute!
I drank Pepsi (the glass bottle) with Ness coffee in high school. I could not afford Pepsi every day but it was fancy to get it sometimes. And it was not available in the stores much (communists). I drank a little more when I came in this country because it was so affordable but looking at people I stoped: I did not want to become the “big” American. Soda was not fancy anymore but poison for me. Without health advice my body could not take stuff that I did not know where they came from. First of all in my country Pepsi at that time had quality: glass, real sugar and good flavor. Here soda tasted fake 😩 what?! Is not like in movies? Than… my eyes could not buy food in the stores: it did not look fresh to me, again fake food. The tasteless “plastic” movie looking food. Weep-cream in a spray? Fancy seen in movies. In reality made me puke.
And, please, I don’t want to offend my adopted country, I am a proud American by choice, but my parents raised me so healthy with our own grown food!!!! When you eat good food as a child, your body won’t accept anything else than that.
So for me… eating clean is not because I read health articles, is because of my healthy childhood. My parents taught me the best. Yes, it was less food in the stores and we never had variety but we had basic clean agriculture products.
I spent hours in grocery stores (when I first moved here) to explore all the colors, packaging, tastes… some I could not buy they looked colorful but FAKE!
My dad said when I took him shopping: “how long this chicken was dead for?”
My mom would sacrifice the chicken in the morning and have a delicious stew for dinner. Now that is what my family calls fresh. Nowadays because life is faster they freezes them right the way. For me is easy to be vegetarian here, you can’t find good quality meat much. When I go home I gain some pounds. The best bacon you can ever have is the one my parents make: perfectly chopped and smoked with such a care and love. When my dad smokes it is like a whole ritual… amazing!
Thank you, Karen, for reminding me of the good old times.
Again, I don’t mean to offend anyone, but this is reality for me.
One more thing; we had one little small trash bucket a week. (Family of four)
Have a super Sunday!
Love hearing your story Miha & perspective coming from another country. It’s amazing how quickly we lost that here & just how pervasive these chemicals have become in only 2 generations. Getting back to eating real food is one of the best ways to improve health + it’s one of the most delicious!!
I remember that too about trash. We used to fill a huge trash bin every week with our family of four. When we switched to whole food, we realized we only had one small bag of trash sitting in that huge bin every week.
Thanks for sharing these thoughts + memories. Enjoy your Sunday! We are prepping food + preparing a big brunch with our neighbors this morning.
I'll join and bring some Romanian bacon ha ha ha
have fun!
I never have been a soda drinker!! What is a thermal paper receipt? Wow all my containers for left-overs are plastic not glass. What to do???
Thermal paper is one of the most popular types of receipt paper on the market. Most retailers use it for cash registers & credit card terminals. It is different from the traditional bond paper in that it is coated with dye and chemicals - specifically high levels of BPA Here is some info https://www.ewg.org/research/bpa-coats-cash-register-receipts
You can easily just begin to swap out plastic for glass little by little. We use a lot of mason jars in our fridge because they are inexpensive, keep food fresh & efficient use of space.