If you have never read the Michael Pollan book Food Rules: An Eater’s Manual, you definiteley should. Food Rules is a set of memorable rules for eating wisely and healthy. Many of which are drawn from a variety of ethnic and cultural traditions, his rules vary from short but sweet to laugh-out-loud funny. Here are a few of my favorites:
- Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.
- Better to pay the grocer than the doctor.
- Don’t eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn’t recognize as food.
- Avoid food product containing ingredients that no ordinary human would keep in the pantry.
- Breakfast like a king. Lunch like a prince. Dinner like a pauper.
- Avoid products that contain more than five ingredients.
- Avoid food products with the word “lite”, “low-fat”, “nonfat” to their names.
- Avoid food that is pretending to be something it is not. (i.e. mock meats)
- Shop the peripheries of the supermarket and stay out of the middle.
- Eat only foods that will eventually rot.
- Get out of the supermarket whenever you can (i.e. shop at farmers markets)
- If it came from a plant, eat it. If it was made in a plant, don’t.
- Eat animals that have themselves eaten well.
- Get well grown food from healthy soil.
- Eat sweet foods as you find them in nature.
- Eat all the junk food you want as long as you cook it yourself.
- Pay more, eat less.
- Consult your gut.
- Don’t get fuel at the same place your car does.
- Cook.
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My name is Amari Cheffer and I am a Registered Dietitian, blogger, and food enthusiast! I started blogging back in 2009 to document my lifelong love affair with food and nutrition. I am a licensed Registered Dietitian with a Master's in Nutrition Science from the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Things I hate most include tasteless diet foods, excuses, hopeless weight-loss advice, and quitters. If you have time to breathe, you have time to eat healthy. It's all about problem solving and planning ahead for your one-of-a-kind lifestyle.
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Oh man, I do number 5 bass-ackwards. And extend the unhealthy trifecta by midnight-snacking like an emperor.