"Ranee Mueller" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:In article <[email hidden]>,
D.Currie said:Here's something to consider...how do you value food?
I started thinking about this when someone was discussing the relative
value
of iceberg lettuce. I mean, it all depends on what "value" you're talking
about. Money? Calories? Flavor? How filling it is? Nutrition? Ease of
preparation? Presentation? Trendiness? Allergy/religious/moral values?
Organic only?
Flavor and price hang in a pretty delicate balance in our budget.
Although I am willing to pay a little more for better ingredients
(especially when grown/raised/produced by local farmers), there is a
limit to what we can afford. So, I'd say price first, then flavor very
tightly second.
Those two are probably my top concerns, too, but sometimes price is tricky,
I've been buying cheeses from a local shop, and some of the prices per pound
seem outrageous. If I was only looking at price per pound, I'd never shop
there. But sliced thin on crackers, these cheeses last a long time. So price
per serving is actually pretty good.
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Nutritive value is important, but unless you're living on iceberg
lettuce, I don't think it's as huge a deal as people make it. You eat a
variety of things and some of them have more and some have less
nutritive value. Just make sure you don't regularly eat dinners of ring
dings and valium and all should be well.
I agree. Some days we don't eat a balanced diet, but over a few days, it
evens out. We like veggies -- actually, we like almost anything -- so we're
getting what we need.
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As for ease of preparation, I keep a range of things in the house,
both simple and more complicated to prepare. Depends on the meal, the
time constraints, etc.
Yup. I don't mind spending time in the kitchen, but I have quite a few
things that are quick to prepare. Takes no time to cook fish, for example.
If I'm aking the fish and I have the extra time, I might fancy up the
veggies, or fiddle with something else that I'm serving.
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I prefer nice presentation, but it's not part of how I choose food,
unless there's a really uggy looking sample versus the nicer looking
ones. This is something that I do as or after I'm cooking and while I
serve/plate.
I like to make things look good, but I don't normally go overboard. Then
again, I guess overboard is in the eye of the beholder.
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Filling is similar. We have a large family made up of a hard working
man, and growing boys and a little daughter who eats as much or more
than I do. Filling is important, but I think about it in terms of how I
put the meal together rather than when I purchase food.
Don't care at all about trendiness except how it sometimes raises the
price of things I like, or conversely makes them more readily available.
Except for my strange allergy to abalone, we have no food allergies
in our home, or among our close acquaintance (well, that's not true, but
the kid with the terrible allergies is basically allergic to food, so
his parents always bring his own food).
Our religious tradition has fast days and abstinence days, but
nothing is strictly prohibited or proscribed. So, I plan meatless
meals, or rid the house of most fats and sweets, or make meals for the
kids while we adults are fasting, and that's about it.
Organic, if we raise it, and when we buy it from local farmers. This
is tied in with my first point. I don't go out of my way to buy it, but
if it is available from local producers at the same or better prices
than the grocery, or if we raise it ourselves, or if it is a variety
that is just not available in the standard market, we'll get it.
Otherwise, it's whatever is on sale. 🙂
Regards,
Ranee
I'm pretty much in agreement, except for the kids. It's just the two of us,
so we eat less than if we were feeding growing kids.
Donna
