Real food

Part of Saturday nights dinner.  

Walking into the tiny "health food" store near my place, it's packed.  Things appear to be changing.  When I hit the regular grocery store, it is empty.  The isles filled with perfectly stacked processed food sit there on the shelves alone.  People seem to be eating better these days.  Of course not all people but from looking at the crowd ratios, the healthy stores are being frequented far more often, at least here in SoCal. 

As I walked around the VERY tiny area filled with fresh and organic food, it hit me.  Funny how we call this health food; when it is in fact just real food that is good for you.  It is like the term "people food" put onto real food that is given to dogs.  Fresh food is simply real food.  But if we are going to call it health food then we should call what lines the shelves in a normal grocery store unhealthy food, correct?

Everything having to do with humans goes in waves.  The 60s and 70s were horrible as far as nutritional eating.  Much of the fast, corner cutting, preservative filled foods today came from those years.  It was all about simple and easy.  As television grew, so did their advertisements and we bought into them.  But now things are different and if you look around you will see it.

More and more people are turning away from the processed stuff and going for the "real food."  It is a change for the better, most definitely.  Sadly many people have a difficult time finding an option to buy healthy food.  Their town may not have grown enough to have a healthy choice to purchase food in the area.  But where there is a will, there is a way.  

Often when there is only one option for healthy food, the costs are crazy high.  But if you are dedicated to finding healthy foods, you will.  Many farmers are joining up with organic co-ops.

Coop directory service 

Organic consumers

Cornucopia

Organic Valley

There are many, many more.  These few just came up first.  So if you really want to eat healthy and don't have a healthy grocery store option then check out a coop or online distributor.  

The better the food you eat the less of it you need.  It is amazing how little food we actually need compared to what we want to eat when hooked on processed crap.  You may spend more on good food but it is for that one body that is going to haul you around for your lifetime, spring for the good stuff.