but then again, i can take myself to Kodiak and 'hunt' buffalo and come back with 600lbs of beautifully marbled papa for ~2.50/lb and i get a big buffalo robe out of the deal on top of it

combine that with 5 deer, 10 halibut from 20-100lbs, 70lbs of shrimp, 30-100lbs of crab, 5 lingcod from 36-50" long, about 100 rockfish from 5-25lbs, the occasional king and silver salmon - and i got a pretty good meat haul for a week of hunting, fishing, and drinking beer with my buds

allpoints wrote:

despite the author's incredibly flawed and woo-laden premise, "real health comes from real food, and real food never comes from a box.", i am way ahead of him because i live in Alaska and make good use of the opportunity to take a very large part of my diet from the wild with my own hand
i'm also a member of an organic garden coop and do a LOT of canning/freezing

i pity you people that you can't do the same whenever you wish...

in the meantime, seafood from sustainable fisheries is a very good option

Sure, I could buy some canned/frozen food off you if I prefer not to do it myself.  (I prefer not to) However, the food industry has undercut you by price for the same exact thing so I will buy it from them.

But oh no, if it isn't packaged by someone you know then it has to be bad! 

huh?

i said from the start that i thought the challenge author's premises were problematic
the cells in your body could care less where they get their polypeptides, magnesium, and fructose

i also don't think you realize where i live, and that i don't pass 4 grocery stores, 6 McDonalds, a couple Carl's Jrs, a Pizza Hut, and 14 7-11s on my way to work in a cubicle in a highrise

my freezer is loaded with salmon, halibut, sablefish, king crab, spot prawns, rockfish, moose, mountain goat, caribou, black bear, blueberries, cranberries, parsnips, fiddleheads, salmonberries, homegrown tomatoes, potatoes, carrots, zucchini, etc because it's vastly cheaper and vastly more fun to collect it myself

plus, by the time the $5.19/lb tomatoes from the local Safeway (30 miles away) come up through the Gulf Of Alaska on a contship, they look pretty sorry

despite the author's incredibly flawed and woo-laden premise, "real health comes from real food, and real food never comes from a box.", i am way ahead of him because i live in Alaska and make good use of the opportunity to take a very large part of my diet from the wild with my own hand
i'm also a member of an organic garden coop and do a LOT of canning/freezing

i pity you people that you can't do the same whenever you wish...

in the meantime, seafood from sustainable fisheries is a very good option

Sure, I could buy some canned/frozen food off you if I prefer not to do it myself.  (I prefer not to) However, the food industry has undercut you by price for the same exact thing so I will buy it from them.

But oh no, if it isn't packaged by someone you know then it has to be bad! 

i pity you people that you can't do the same whenever you wish...

in the meantime, seafood from sustainable fisheries is a very good option

I know I fail as soon as I wake up. I drink coffee thats been pre-ground and I am sure processed in some other way.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/02/23/re … /?hpt=Sbin

How many here can live upto the test? As I sit here thinking about it the task boggles my mind.

I don't understand this backlash against processed foods. Before industrial mechanization, households used to have to process foods themselves...you know...like canning, preserving, and what not. 

Unless you pick an apple straight from the tree, most food is processed and for good reason.  The fact that some my find it "unhealthy" are only pointing blame on the bad apples and not realizing that processing foods has done so much more for humanity than people who don't understand can wrap their brain around.

I wouldn't be surprised in this "challenge" that processed foods would have a biased definition to fit the needs of those who fail to understand its importance.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/02/23/re … /?hpt=Sbin

How many here can live upto the test? As I sit here thinking about it the task boggles my mind.