OK-- perhaps that title is a bit melodramatic and smacks of Martha Stewart. I used to love her magazine before that design show came on and showed that young editor who yelled at the furniture buyer. It's too bad...I bought every issue at the supermarket (full newsstand price), and then I had to stop because the yelling just bothered me. Not in general, as a New Yorker, I'm OK with general yelling, but Martha Stewart, for me, is an island of peaceful muted pastels in a sea of blaring primary colors.
I hope I get over this soon.
Speaking of which....Day 2 of better food choices started with
1. Avoiding chicken tikka masala at favorite Indian place. Will go back once I figure out where they get their paneer from.
Cow photo (note lovely grass) from US Agriculture Service. Image is in the public domain, and provides reassurance that we, too, are nice to cows.
2. did not buy mini Babybel cheese, Tillanook cheddar, white Singles, or string cheese (products of USA) as unsure how cows were treated. Instead bought Kerrygold (product of Ireland), as EU people kinder to innocent farm animals, allowing them to thrive on lush farmland, according to web site. (Decided to look Tillanook and up on web as they refuse to give cows growth hormones according to the label...good...and Babybel is sold at Whole Foods, so must be OK? Will check.)
3. avoided New England Clam Chowder (clams OK, but bacon might have been from abused pig)
4. did not eat possible slave labor chocolate, but got organic variety instead
5. avoided delicious tasty cookies with dark chocolate filling...so yummy, but head filled with visions of depressed-looking children picking beans (of course this might be confused with coffee in my mind)
6. did not buy favorite crackers, favorite vanilla cookies (eggs), favorite candy bar (chocolate), sushi (nonsustainable), yum-o-riffic shrimp skewers at fun restaurant near MIT (unsustainable possibly as shrimp provenance unclear)
7. did not go to Yummy Hut for vegetable fried rice because could not trust self to avoid egg rolls...(so tasty)
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