Simple...I dig that.

Last week I went to see the film "Fresh." I've been wanting to see it for a while, and I highly recommend it to anyone wishing to view their food in a new light.

I like what Michael Pollan (author of The Omnivore's Dilemma, Food Rules and several others) has to say about "diet." In seven words:

Eat food. Not a lot. Mostly plants. 

I like to add one word to this creed: I say , "Eat good food."

As Pollan points out, most of the stuff marketed as "food" today is what he calls "edible foodlike substances."

Don't eat a lot of that.

Real food. That's the stuff you read and recognize the name. If it has more than five ingredients, Pollan says, bag it. Shop for food your grandmother would recognize. No 19-letter ingredients that sound like chemicals of modern warfare.

Oh yeah, and eat junk food.

Yes, I just said that...

But only if you make it at home!

I dig it!

I love blue cheese dressing, but I don't buy it from the supermarket. It's my homemade junk food.

Organic mayo (oil, egg, and vinegar), natural sour cream, chopped fresh garlic, Amish blue cheese, a touch of red wine vinegar, a dash of salt and pepper.

Served over rosemary oven-roasted potatoes...

That is mmm-mmm good!

Peanut butter chocolate-chip cookies? Yep, had those last week too. Homemade. Natural p-nut butter, organic butter, organic brown sugar, eggs, baking soda, salt, organic flour, organic chocolate chunks.

Heaven. More than five ingredients, but all ones that my grandma would recognize.

It's not hard to remember:

Eat good food. Not a lot. Mostly plants. 

http://www.michaelpollan.com/http://www.michaelpollan.com/

http://www.michaelpollan.com/article.php?id=87

http://www.motherearthnews.com/Real-Food/Michael-Pollan-On-How-To-Eat-Better-Avoid-Industrial-Diet.aspx

Photos from http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/09/fresh-the-movie.php