Welcome to our new foodblog
About us:
We are Stefan (17) and Tijl (16). We are 2 students of WICO Campus Salvator in Hamont. We made this blog to tell something about healthy food.
Thanksgiving:
Thanksgiving is a holiday in the USA. They celebrate it on the last Thursday of November. On this holiday they normally eat turkey, potatoes and pumpkin pies. Every year the president pardons one turkey. This turkey will live like a king from this moment on. According to the pilgrims that live in the USA right now, thanksgiving is a feast that celebrates the cooperation between the immigrants and the Native Americans, but according to the Native Americans they are celebrating the dead of thousands children, women and men.
There is always something to be thankfull for.
Jamie Oliver’s meat burger:
We read a recipe from Jamie Oliver’s cookbook. The recipe thought us how to make a healthy and a delicious burger. Most of the time burgers are really unhealthy, but he learned us a way how to make them healthier. One of the things the book was saying, is that you should add some extra lettuce and tomatoes to your burger. Further he also said that you should bake your burger in olive oil, this way it will contain less fat. Sounds delicious.
Friend or enemy?
We read an article about food, but not just casual food. The article explained us the importance of food in a war. We learned that food kills more people in a war than the guns do. A lot of brave soldiers die from starvation, and not only soldiers, because a lot of people in the poor regions of the world die because they just don’t have anything to eat. We can almost say that food is a weapon that you can use to either manipulate or murder people. What do you think? Is food your friend or your enemy?
The Germans lost World War 2 because food killed their soldiers.
“No mom, i don’t like vegetables”
This is a frequently used sentence among children. They often use it when they have to eat something new. Children are most afraid to do or eat new things, that’s why they just say:”I don’t like it.” In reality eating new things is really important, because when mankind started to eat new things, they evolved and became the mightiest species that have ever lived on this planet. About 1.7 million years ago we started cooking our food and we started eating new things. By cooking our food, we help the body to absorb all the necesarry nutrients, including proteins. These proteins made our brain grow bigger and bigger and we became smarter and smarter. So the next time when your kid says:” I don’t like that food”, tell them that eating those things that we don’t like, distinguished us from all the other species on earth.
Let food be the medicine and medicine be thy food.
Hippocrates
Belgian culture
As you may already know we are 2 students from Belgium, so it would be weird if we didn’t explain some of the dishes we eat a lot in Belgium. Some of the most famous things are:
- Brussels sprouts
- French Fries
- Chocolate
- Asparagus
- Famous beers
These are some really well known Belgian products and you can eat them in several ways. You can eat the Brussels sprouts with French fries or mash, You can eat white chocolate, black chocolate, you can drink a lot of different/good beers. There are just so many options with these Belgian products. You should try them out yourself!
Hostess/host with Christmas
It is almost Christmas, that time of the year when we try to prove that we are really good cooks. The hostess/host wants to dig out with her/his food because the evening needs to be fun. Christmas make a connecton between you and your family and friends. In our culture we are used to eating a lot on Christmas, we keep eating and eating, but why do we? We do this because the food the cook made is so delicious but also because they know we know the host/hostess spent a lot of time to make the food and he/she put a lot of effort in it. We don’t want to be impolite or to disappoint him/her, so that’s why we eat a lot, but don’t eat too much because that will be impolite too. Find a nice balance and be honest to yourself and the host/hostess, enough is enough, follow this principal and your Christmas will be the best one ever. After all, Christmas is only one day every year, so we have to celebrate it with some delicious food . Always remember: Christmas can also be healthy, it doesn’t have to be a food festival. Just enjoy your party and eat some food.
I’m on a seafood diet, I see food and i eat it.
Waste of food
We waste a lot of food and that is not acceptable. There are a millions/billions of people who die of starvation and we just throw our food away. Why don’t we just bring it to an organisation which can do something with this food. Give it to the poor people, the foodbank … . How would you feel if you were poor and you knew people were just wasting a lot of food? I would be fuming, that’s for sure. Most of the time you can also eat your meal the day after you prepared it, so don’t just trow it away, make good use of it. You can also bring it to a foodbank if you are really stubborn and you say: “I’m not gonna eat the same dish twice.” A foodbank is a non-profit, charitable organisation that gives food to people that don’t have money to buy it. So next time you think something is out of date or not deliscious anymore, just try it or bring it to a foodbank. This way you help other people to eat healthy food.
There are millions/billions people dying of starvation and we just throw our food away
Fastfood
It’s cheap, it’s fast and it contains a lot of fat. That sounds like an ideal combination for obesity and it is. At the moment about 30% of the population, that’s about 2.1 billion man, women or children, in the world are obese and every year 3 milion of them die. I don’t think that’s normal anymore. Here are some data from some off the most obese countries.
You can see these absurd numbers and I’m not telling you fastfood is the reason for all of this, but fastfood is a big part of it. Let’s take McDonald’s as an example. McDonald’s was founded in 1955 and from that moment on the obesityrate has tripled. I’m not blaming McDonald’s for that, but they were are really big part of that. In the USA all the poor people go to McDonald’s and eat there, because it’s cheap and the food contains a lot of calories, so they don’t have to order as much, but do you think the poor people in Africa go to a fast food outlet. No, of course not. Those people this eat healthy even tho they don’t have a lot of money. Let those people be an example for you and start eating healtier even when you think you don’t have the money for it.
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