Food Post

Grocery
When I go shopping with my mom, it'll be either in the chinatown supermarket, where they sell a lot of fish and vegetables and fruit or once in awhile it'll be at WholeFoods (because its also near my home). Well I've been thinking and grocery stores sometimes use coupons to encourage costumers to buy unhealthy. They also try to disguise unhealthy food as healthy so health aware costumers will buy them. Like adding omega 3s to ice-cream, fruit on the bottom yogurts, or granola bars (which seem like a healthy choice but are not). In general alot of what Americans eat aren't that healthy because they tend to eat alot of fried and greasy foods compared to other people of other countries. The grocery stores try to push sugary cereals on younger kids, because when I was younger I remember seeing a lot of cereals like that at my eye level. For grown ups there are more healthy and whole grain or oats cereals where they would see.

I think I eat about an equal amount of meat and vegetables though lately I've been eating more veggies. I think this is because I feel like I've eaten too much meat and I'm trying to balance that out by eating more veggies. Because of this, when we go food shopping I ask to get fruits and when my mom is shopping she buys more vegetables because I keep asking for her to make them. Now in a typical week I will eat more vegetables as compared to last year. I also like eating fruit like oranges, cherries, tangerines, bannanas, etc.

Food Habits/Change of Food Habits
When I was little I didn't care as much, I would eat what ever was available even if it was unhealthy. I ate alot of junk food when I was younger because my elementary school had ice cream vending machines and soda machines. During lunchtime, students bought chips because they showed a movie during that time to keep us entertained. I also used to go to the YMCA, and across the street would be a cup noodle place, that had a bunch of chips and flavored ice pops. I drank alot of soda too because that was what you did when you were younger, I remember because I had allergies or something and the doctor said I couldn't drink dark soda so I was left with Ginger Ale and 7 up. I think now that I'm older my tastes has changed because I no longer like sweet stuff and rarely drink soda. I think this probably happened in 6th grade when I met Lisa, she worked at a clothing store and had a dog (that's how I met her, I asked to pet her dog) and this one time she had a boxful of tea from Itoen and would offer it to me because she had so much. It was unsweetened but it grew on me. So now I like drinking unsweetened tea even though most people my age don't. That's where that habit of mine comes from.

Favorite foods
Yesterday my mom cooked one of my favorite dishes, well two. It was garlic and chinese vegetable, and spring onions with leeks and this la Ruo which I love. It was leftovers but the smell was droolworthy, just cook the ingrediants in a wok or pan with some oil. Lets see, for the first dish, put the garlic in oil and add the vegetables afterwards, it'll wilt pretty fast so you can add alot and afterwards it'll be alot less. I think that's pretty simple..so I bet ya'll already know how to do that.. The other dish was done the same way (it was leftovers but my mom added spring onions and peppers to it). I think I like it because its familar food I had in my childhood. I also like congee with preserved vegetables. My mom's been cooking alot at home lately (maybe its the recession) but I like the food. My eating habits are mostly healthy, though it can be anything I'm in the mood for, like today for a snack I got chinese beef pancake at a dumpling shop on Eldridge st.