Sorry that I'm blogging today but I had a concert that I was performing in that was late.
Before I get to the "Sticky Situation" I want to quickly about Breakfast and Lunch.
Breakfast: Organic Steel Cut Oats with Local honey.
Lunch: Jam and Cheese Bread (don't ask) with lettuce and beets, Yogurt, and Popcorn. My mom had found out a great way to make the popcorn taste good. We took some of our Organic Butter and melted it. We then poured the popcorn into the melted butter, and whalla! Tasty snack!
Now I can get to the Sticky Situation. We had just come from a local organic farm which our class had stopped by coming back from a field trip. Amazingly this was the same farm, I was going to visit with my parents on Saturday. They said that they would let me pick strawberries when I came. So anyway, they had given us ice creams. The ice creams were local, and had 6 ingredients. Whoops, that meant it had to be Organic. I asked my teacher through the noisy bus and she said yes through the confusion. I then ate my ice cream and boy was it sticky. It was everywhere! When I got back, I learned that the ice cream, was actually probably not organic. That just shows how confusing and how deceiving food can be. A label says one thing, a person says another, an ad says yet another. It's so hard for the consumer to know what's organic, local, industrial. etc. Anyway, I don't blame anybody, it was an accident. I was feeling a little guilty, but my teacher said something that was dead true: "You don't have to be miserable for this week". And that was true. Also it was close to 5 ingredients, so I dropped it, though feelings of guilt still stayed.
It got even worse that night. I had my leftover drum stick and sweet potato with asparagus and swiss chard. My mom had made organic chicken, with organic broccoli/carrot slaw, with organic mayonnaise (8 ingredients), and pineapple (nothing). It looked so good, and tempting, and I was dying to have some. It's true, I could take out the pineapple and then I would be able to have it, except there was the mayonnaise. It was only organic. Then there were also onions, which my mom was sort of sure were organic. My family finally talked into eating some. I didn't have the pineapple or the celery (there was also celery). I might not have gone completely pure, but that's impossible, and I'm doing so much, I can afford a few mistakes.
That's pretty much it.
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