Thought.....

By seeking my own communication I am coming closer to hearing those true answers to my inner questions. It pays to live with blinders on every once in a while.

Local/organic food.....

Why do you have to pay more money for local food? Is it me or do other people think of this also? They don't have to ship their food to sell it locally, therefore it should be cheaper, right? They usually man their rented farmer market space themselves, so they don't need to hire someone to man it. Where's the logic except that they too want their fair share of the financial pie and price their food accordingly. I would love to be able to afford to buy local food a lot more than I do, but I can't and it just makes me a little angry that the local farmers are pricing their food items the way that they do. I also don't like the fact that organic food items are two to five times the amounts than non-organic. I can only hope that people with more money to spend buy local and organic foods long enough so that the prices come down to a more sensible level and I too can afford to eat a more healthy diet.

What Came First.....

What came first, the chicken or the egg? Well in my apartment it depends on what is in the refrigerator. I might also have the urge to have something else, or a combination of somethings. Years ago my mother was horrified when I combined ketchup with mayo or mayo with mustard to go with a sandwich or use as a dip. I would also add soy sauce or some other condiment that was there but mostly not used by my mother's cooking technique. She bought lots of things and didn't use a lot of those things. Or she bought it for a recipe and didn't use it anymore. She was a person that had to use the exact items in a recipe and didn't think twice about a trip to the local market to get those items for that one time recipe. In those days she didn't especially like to cook. She cooked because it was required by her. Somewhere along my teenage years I started to get creative with my snacking and came ups with quite a few variations. There's one that I still have on occasion. It's a peanut butter sandwich with mustard and mayo. It's one of my comfort foods that I need to have at those special times. So what came first, the chicken or the egg today.