I always look for motivation for being conscious of what I
eat. I watch documentaries about genetically modified food, the hazards of
processed foods, the mistreatment of animals and people in the production of
our food and so on. I have made some progress in the quality and quantity of
the food I eat but as a human often slip and or ignore the truth in favour of
what I want.
Today a little thing has driven home a nice little message.
I was eating a bag of Quaker Crisp Minis Dill Pickle flavoured rice cakes the
other day in the car. I choose the rice cakes over chips because I perceive that
they are somehow better for me. This morning I am driving to work and as I
drive the sun hits the dash in a certain way and I see a “wet” spot on the
dash. And in the centre is a large piece of dust. The dust it turns out is a
spec of the dill pickle coating from the rice cakes and the wet spot is grease
that has spread out from the spec of coating. A centimetre in diameter grease
spot from on spec of a flavour coating on a rice cake!
I have today been tuned to a new outlook on what I am eating
and the thousand or tens of thousands of the dill pickle coating specs I ate in
one bag of rice cakes. Will I slip again? You bet I will but hopefully I will
remember the spec and retune my consumption.
