Not many people eat the types of food I eat. Since April or so I’ve been eliminating a lot of processed stuff from my diet and replacing that stuff with clean, whole food choices. I’ve always been known to be something of an oddity, but my change in diet has provided people with one more quality about me that they find odd.
It would seem that whole foods and clean eating may as well be the strange types of foods an alien from Mars would eat, assuming that there are aliens on Mars and also assuming that they eat!
Now I tend to eat about six small meals or snacks per day, and sometimes more if I spread my food out more throughout the day. I’m eating something about every 1 to 3 hours, especially during the day when I am most hungry. I am eating all the time, and yet people accuse me of eating like a bird and truly think that I am going to starve to death. It’s can be entertaining to measure my food near other people.
Well, the “alienness” of my food choices was again emphasized today. On Thursdays, I bring my supper/dinner to work to eat there since I have Kung Fu classes soon after I get home, and today I brought a sauteed onion and a bean burger that I’d made from scratch. I also brought salsa to put on the bean burger. I don’t eat it on a bun, so I just had it on top of the onion slices and was applying the salsa after having heating it up in the microwave.
I’ve gotten all sorts of reactions about the bean burger when I’ve brought it up. Today, someone asked me if I was cooking cat food. Not to be mean or snide. She sincerely didn’t know what it was. She didn’t seem to like it any better after I told her what it was. In fact, she was speechless while I was laughing about her question. She finally decided to just not to say anything else about it. It was even funnier than the guy who told me earlier that I needed to eat protein while I was in the midst of heating up the scrambled eggs I had as part of my lunch.
On a positive note, the next person came in and thought my bean burger and onion looked good and seemed impressed that I had made it. Then after I got back from my desk, another person nearby out loud what it was that suddenly smelled so good.
There may be hope!
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