Sunday, March 30, 2008
BREAKFAST (WINDSOR DINING COURT)
Chocolate Milk
Cheese Bread Stick
LUNCH (WINDSOR DINING COURT):
Cheese Spinach Vegetarian Pizza
Hash Brown
Gala Apple
Chocolate-vanilla Ice-cream
SNACKS (ON THE GO):
Baked Pretzels
Grandma Cookies
DINNER (DORM ROOM):
Chole Masala (Chick Peas cooked in tomato gravy with Indian Spices)
Chapatti (Unleavened bread made from wheat)
I have always been interested in knowing different facts regarding the food we eat. I was in a habit of observing the type of food I ate. However, in India I never thought about Genetically Modified Food. It’s still new there. However here in States it’s all about GM foods. While I took a note of my diet this Sunday, I observed that I ate a lot many different kinds of food.
I had milk, some cheese on my food and an ice cream in my diet, which may be considered genetically modified, if the milk giving cow was fed with genetically modified corn. I also had hash browns, which contained potatoes, which may or may not be genetically modified ones. I had pizza, which may be considered fast food, but spinach made it nutritious. I also had fruits like a gala apple which is known to come from the lands of New-Zealand and an orange, which might have come from Florida or California. Other than that I had some Indian dishes for my dinner, which for sure was not genetically modified.
I work in the Windsor dining court, and tried to find if people knew about GM of organic food. I noticed that, people rarely even think about this stuff. Organic foods being very expensive are not provided in our dining courts. I always try and have a balanced diet, as I am used to them, but thinking about the food items being something called ‘genetically modified’ was not until the last few English 106 classes.
3 comments:
I admire the way that you are aware of what you eat and try to eat and try to eat healthy on a regular basis. It must be pretty hard to eat a vegetarian diet here in the dorms! Although Windsor has the vegetarian area, it probably doesn't have that good of a selection. It is definitely true that most people don't know about or don't think about whether their food is GM or organic. Even though I've heard about it before, it's not something I think about very often.
p.s. It was nice seeing you in Windsor the other day! :)
It doesn't surprise me that people at Windsor don't know about GMO foods.
It's awesome that you want to know about what you're eating. I'm the same... to an extent. Whenever I'm really hungry I just don't really care about the nutritional facts, but other times I'll take a peek.
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