Eating Part 8 Cooking & Packaging

 

Cod Patty

In this blog I am looking at my eating habits, my mistakes, forgiving myself and writing some commitments to correct myself

Forgiving myself 

I forgive myself that i have accepted and allowed myself to believe that eating is about cooking tasty meals  - unaware of other things involved, like where the packaging of my food goes after the trash man takes the garbage and not really caring about how the earth is being affected by what i eat and its packaging

I forgive myself that i have accepted and allowed myself to desire tasty food - making my taste buds the center of my world - where my choice of restaurant is very important based on which restaurant prepares the best tasting food that will please my taste buds and that of my family & friends

Commitments

When and as i see myself having a belief that eating is just about cooking and eating, i stop - i breathe. I realize eating is not limited to preparing the food and eating the food but rather, what is involved in the production of the food,  where it comes from, our choice of food, the role of packaging in selling food, how our bodies are affected by food, how the earth is being affected by the whole process etc.

I commit myself to see what the processes involved in farming are, how the earth environment is affected by our eating habits and how we can  pinpoint the problems and look at solutions that work