Interesting post.. came at a time that I’m just evaluating my diet. You’re right.. “progress” tends to swing food consumption towards the processed foods. The packaging is another aspect to take note of… more process = more packages. I guess the more developed the coutry, the more likely its landfills will have more food packaging waste.

Think about it!

pc

I didn’t agree with you first, but last paragraph makes sense for me…

My mother also would say, waste not and want not, when it came to meals. I can’t recall family eating habits until we lived on a company plantation. Before that we had a cook, house boy, maid and little boy, plus a chauffer as our house hold staff. I guess we ate or were fed by them.

I remember helping mother with making of Christmas cake though and the best part of this was to finish the remnants after mixing the ingredients. On the estate we enjoyed the same perks as company directors did, due to the lonely life style and contribution to the national GDP. There too, we had lots of household help.

However, we sat together for dinner with our parents, arrived at the breakfast table individually and lunch the children ate together, due to our parents different schedules, bearing in mind work and taking care of my little brother. Yet my mother insisted that I say thank you to the servants who served me.

I don’t think the household staff had different food to what we ate, excepting at night time, because they prefered rice and curry to western food. It was a different story when we returned to Colombo and there was a government austerity drive. We had only a maid then and ate differently to the outstation days.

That was during the holidays but in boarding school I couldn’t stomach the food. One does get used to a forced diet with time and the independance I learnt at school, has helped me survive alone increasingly. This doesn’t mean I’m an anti social being but yes, food and the partaking of food together congenially, is vital.

I am currently in Boston for work, will be here for 5 weeks. Most of the food here is processed food & their portions are hugh!!! Obesity seems fairly common here.

I also noticed that most of US food is sweet & they really love their dunkin donuts like we love MacDonalds.

Btw do u check these responses? Do continue to blog & hope to get yr reply soon.

cheers,
Glen