What do you serve today?

It's hard to say if I ever had a favorite meal in my life.
I am not crazy about pasta, pizza, fast food, potatoes, ice cream, and all those kinds of food so many people claim they could kill for.

For sure food has changed during the past 10 years and even more during the past 50 - 100 years.
That explains the reason why my granny's soup and the cake tasted completely different from what I prepare. Even the basic ingredients have changed. Everything needs to be prepared as cheaply as possible. All kinds of chemicals are added to no matter what we buy and for sure it does harm us. Transfat and palm fat to start with.
There's a very good reason why so many suffer from allergies, eczema, have cancer, high blood pressure, diabetics, ADHD, and depressions.
We did this all to ourselves by taking the easy and cheap way out. Not only drugs make us ill but so does the food we eat.

In the Netherlands we have a certain green cabbage.
According to my parents, I was found in it. This expression means you like the food very much. It might be but I no longer do and rarely eat it. It's the same with so many kinds of food. It's known taste does change every 5-7 years so I shouldn't be surprised mine did but I am if it comes to the fact I have no favorite meal. I wouldn't know what to ask for on my birthday or if it was the last meal of my life.

The fact is what I buy or order never tastes as good as I have in mind. If you are used to cooking yourself fast food, all prepared fixed meals out of packages have a lot in common. They all taste the same.

Eat only what you really like.
That sounds like good advice and if you gain weight you at least did it with some food you liked. Not with cold french fries, a burned burger or meat on the bbq, candies that make you feel itchy, a dry cake from the confectionery, spoiled rice, or the next terrible pizza.
If life was only so easy you could pick out what to eat. Unfortunately, I cannot because I am a poor bastard and already spend too much money on food. Most of it is not good, disappointing, and not even worth eating it slowly to enjoy the taste. But what choice do you have if children need to eat and cheap, bad food is the only thing you can afford?

Our first meal of the day was porridge. Oatmeal flakes + water. I still like porridge although I no longer prepare it with milk like during my childhood was quiet normal. I still do not like those dry flakes in yohurt, milk etc.

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