Food has become a nightmare

This morning I had a another fit about American food. Oh yes, I miss German food. We don't add vitamins to our pasta and we don't colour our cheeses orange or marble. I hate cheddar in the meantime because it seems to be the only cheese for under $20 per kg and I don't understand why. What's so difficult about making other cheeses - why can only cheddar be produced so cheaply? Gouda, Edam and Co taste much better. When I was pregnant I was always asked at the doctor's office if I was still taking my vitamins. No, and I never have been. I eat a healthy diet so what do I need vitamins for? 

Do you know Michael Pollan? If you care a little bit about what you eat you will have heard of him because he writes one book after the other about food, American food or the Western diet as he calls it. Actually, the Western diet for him consists of "food-like substances", not actually food itself any more - I agree. Due to very strong lobbying groups in the American food industry nobody dares any longer to say you should not eat red meat, dairy, avocados or what ever. Instead they boiled it down to nutrients - don't eat saturated fats, carbohydrates, MSG (which I recently found on a shelve in the spices section of a shop - who would buy that?) ... and so on, but do eat Omega-3-fats, vitamin D, fibre, blablabla ... now go figure where you find or not find these nutrients. Of course, the food industry can manufacture lots of the "good" stuff now into almost any processed food and then advertise it big. Try HARDER! We eat very little processed foods so I don't care. Besides, everything seems to be about calories and reducing fat and sugar and ... we don't all want to slim down so again, I don't care, but I'm tired of this nonsense. Did I mention yet that I found a super yummy yoghurt the other day, produced in Quebec it's called Liberte - in fact, it's liberating to eat because those 8% fat and lots of fruit are very satisfying. Besides, we received organic lentils from Saskatchewan with our Organic Box and they smelled like fresh from the field!           


Of course, there's lots of processed and junk food in Germany, too. Europe takes on too much stuff from the USA anyway and crap food is part of this. Meat also is sold wrapped in styrofoam and plastic wrap and lots of food is packaged in single portions and there's too much fat and sugar in food products ... but we have decent cheeses and chocolates that taste better and are cheaper. There was a hint in the last sentence - watch for the packaging of your food, less is better.