This is how a single guy goes shopping....

1) Pick what you need for your anticipated coming week cooking

2) Weigh yourself,

3) Stick the price label.

Avoid plastic when not necessary and contribute to save our planet with little easy habits...

Salt your Life

Salt is everywhere, on our kitchen table, in our favourite processed food: french fries, pizza, bread, sausage, smoke salmon/ham and so on...

The daily recommended allowance of salt is only 2g for our body....
But nowadays we take more than 10-12g of salt (maybe without knowing it) daily !!!

Hypertension & Cardiovascular disease might be your next best friends if you don't change your diet habit...

Anan's Food Alert

I wish there would be more "Visibility" on what we eat, where does the ("processed") food come from, what are the Risks & Food Safety when you know that your food travelled miles away....
So I made a small web app, which I hope will be open up your mind a little bit if you are a pro-foodie like me. :p

Check it out at: http://workingtitle.dreamhosters.com/foodalert/

Now available on iGoogle directory widget !!!

Check it out at : http://www.google.fr/ig/directory?hl=fr&type=gadgets&url=workingtitle.dreamhosters.com/foodalert/FoodAlert.xml
or simply search for "Food Alert" in iGoogle directory

America's Favourite Cooking Style

I must admit that there are only 2 popular ways:

• using Oven (Pizza, donuts, burger buns etc...)

• using deep Frying (bacons, french fries....) re-using the same oil again and again (with full of trans-fat).... how sad for the health but how tasty foods as suggested the following pictures from a little book that I just bought ^_^ ....

29, 559 Calories = ~12 times more than our body's daily calorie needs !

Corns & Palm oil : when Food of the 21st century rhythms with Obesity...

We spend less and less time and money for our food budget.
We buy a lot of "pre-processed" foods in their beautiful packaging, filling our fridge/freezer with ready to heat & eat food at any time, anywhere but preferably in front of a TV set...

Why are we becoming so FAT when our food budget seems to decrease from 30% for the elders to 10% only for the youth nowadays ?? How can we eat less and get Fat ??

After reading, browsing many science & nutrition diet articles publications during my spare time, I came to realise that the answer relies in a simple mathematics ratio: the Omega ratios ( also known as the "ratios of n−6 to n−3" ).

If you wanna live longer & have a healthier life, the best & recommended ratios are : 5 to 1 ( 5 Omega 6 for 1 Omega 3 on your daily food )
But today, these ratios are more like... 20-30 to 1 !!!

Who's at fault ?? Ladies & Gentlemen, please welcome our 2 greatest World Wide Foods Champions :

• Corns : whatever it's transformed into corn oil (it's very rich in omega 6 !!) or high-fructose corn syrup (in our favourite soda drinks such as Coke or Dr Pepper) it's surely good for your tongue, but the excess of sugar not for your health at all.
  Bear in mind that when you buy a chicken or fish fed with corns/soy (="whole-grain"), they will also be rich in omega 6 too !!! (and not omega 3 for the fish as you expected !!)
  

• Palm oil: also well known & labelled as "vegetable oil" or "hydrogenated vegetable oil", it's very cheap oil, and is used a lot in our favourite cookies, brownies, chocolate cake (Kinder choco) the list is very long if you take your time to read the tiny labels.
  
  Problems:
  1) They (food manufacturers) use hydrogenate oil so you can keep your brownies last longer ! So the chocolate can slowly melt on your tongue, so the flavour will always remain the same... and by the way bring a little bit of trans fatty acids into your body too !
  
  2) Palm oil is super high in saturated fats (44%) and super rich in omega 6 too !!!
  Filling (slowly) your body with saturated fat each day,,, that's why we have diseases... and become sick.
  

Less physical activities also contribute to this "obesity pandemic" society problem, it's not a surprise... because we are all spoiled by the Foods Inc. with always new tasty products, richer in saturated fat & omega 6, and of course: always for Cheaper !

What a Wonderful World we Live in... isn't it ?

Credit: Wall-E, the future of human being is already here in cartoon.