The real food challenge

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

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

Last edited by allpoints (2010-03-05 13:55:54)

yep....and they get picked green and about the size of a snooker ball in Mexico or the Central Valley, loaded in a truck bound for some vegetable warehouse in Portland or Seattle, then loaded into a refrigerated container and put on a ship which then blasts through 2000 miles of (on average) 12-14' head seas

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