HW 4: My family's food ways

When I talked to my parents about the food they ate growing up, they reminisced about all of the disgusting yet delicious foods that their parents or grandparents made them.

For my mother, she ate macaroni and cheese (homemade) with extra cream in the cheese. Her great aunt made a salad that had mayonnaise in it with a dressing that contained Cherry Coke. She loved the taste, but the diet was just too much. When she grew up, she gave me and my brother a healthier approach to food. With the occasional cookies here and there, we grew up with only whole wheat bread, only Bran Flakes or Cheerios for breakfast, and absolutely no soda in the house except birthday parties. As I got older and the country got even more unhealthy, my mother became even more of a healthy cooker. Nowadays, my family only eats grass-fed beef (on occasion), pasta once a week, no red meat, and salads with every meal. She reads books on what foods are healthy for us and buys them. During every meal she talks about how healthy the food we are eating actually is.

For my father, he grew up with a similar eating habit to my mother. His mom would cook up a can of vienna sausages and put them in a "meal salad" containing butter and cream as well. My father also had lots of soda and junk food in his house. When he grew up, he traveled around and developed a taste for exquisite foods from other countries. Now my father eats the same way my mom does. Only he is a little more quiet about his eating habits. Occasionally, he will make hamburgers and fries for us (but not very often anymore).

I think the change in eating habits comes from children rebelling against their parents. My parents became healthy eaters because they grew up with unhealthy eaters. Because my parents hold a healthy diet for me and my brother, I eat lots of junk food outside of home. Not always, but there are times when I crave McDonalds even though my parents hate it.

HW 2: Food

Food is way of survival for living things on earth. Unfortunately, humans have found a way to turn that against themselves. In today's world, there are places where eating a certain type of food, over time, can have fatal outcomes. For example, french fries and fried food might taste good at the moment, but too much of it over a long period of time could cause heart failure, diabetes, or obesity. Humans are creating foods that are cheap to make, but are mostly unhealthy. Therefore, people who can't afford healthy foods are then forced to eat food that will eventually kill them. Why is the world like this? I believe it's because over the years, humans have gotten more and more lazy. Always coming up with the easiest way of doing something. Therefore, they came up with the easiest way to make and sell food. This results in poor diets and a higher risk of disease.

In this country, the variety of cultures and ethnicities results in a high amount of different foods. Some cultures tend to have very healthy diets, while others have very poor diets.