For this assignment I have decided to choose option a which was for us to be experiential (change diet, change shopping, change how you prepare food, how you eat). I chose to change three things which were to change my meals, what I had to drink and where I purchased my food from. For two days I am deciding to eat meals that don't have meat in them, I am trying to drink things that aren't loaded with sugar and I am trying to shop either at a supermarket or a whole foods. In these two days of changing my eating habits I am going to try and resist the temptation to eat things that I am not allowed to while gathering my evidence. This connects to our unit on food because it has made me realize that what I usually eat isn't exactly healthy for me even know I may like it. This is giving me a chance to see if I depend on eating the foods that I would normally have on a daily basis.
The first thing I am going to talk about is the struggle that I had while trying change my eating habits. The first thing that I had to do was pick up all of my "healthy" foods. I went to whole foods and got a bunch of pasta, cheese, salad materials, and some other things my mom picked out. That was the easy part, the hard part was actually coming to terms with the fact that I couldn't snack on any junk food when I went to a deli with friends. When I saw my friends eating their candy and chocolate it really made the whole eating healthy experience a lot harder. When you know you cant have something and people around you have it, it's definitely very hard to resist it. Also when you cant eat meat your eating options around school are very limited since basically everywhere i go for lunch has meat in their food. So I had to get pizza since that was the only place around the school that I liked that didn't have meat in it.This also connects to changing what I drink because with these meals you want to have a drink and since I am trying to drink things with little sugar I had to have an orange juice (which doesn't go well with pizza). Since the things that don't have sugar in them are very limited you also have to chose a meal sometimes according to what you can drink with it.
The second day I focused on what meals I would prepare for myself. Since most of the food my mom got me(mostly vegetables) wasn't very appealing I was going to make myself spaghetti. Since I am a very picky eater there are few things that don't have meat that I will eat. Spaghetti being my favorite non meat food(and one of the only foods I know how to make) I decided to make that. I prepared this meal no differently then I would have prepared any other. I don't think that this really has an impact on the way I prepared it since there is no way for me to disrupt my goal if I just make spaghetti normally since nothing that I should not be eating isn't being added. When I was making it I thought to myself how I actually do depend on eating meat since I am so picky that there isn't a lot that i am willing to eat and i don't want to have to eat spaghetti 4 times a day.
After this whole experience ended I did end up going back to eating meat. Actually I went to Mcdonald's and got a big mac. I thought that this unit would change the way that I think about food and in some ways it did but in some ways it didn't. It definitely didn't change it in the way that if i desire a certain food i will go and eat it no matter how it was prepared. The one thing that this unit did make me change tho was how much of this food I am going to eat. I will definitly think differently about how many times a week I eat this food.
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