For Jill...

I told you a couple weeks ago that I was going to get Michael Pollan's new book Food Rules. I picked it up that day, and read it all that day twice. It doesn't take long to read and is totally worth adding it to your home library as a permanent reference tool!

So, like I said, I suggest buying this book, but here are some of my favorite rules. Michael Pollan's basic guidelines are "Eat food, not too much, mostly plants." This is the way his food rules are broken down as well.

Here are my favorites:

2: Don't eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn't recognize as food.

5: Avoid foods that have some form of sugar (or sweetener) listed among the top three ingredients.

6: Avoid food products that contain more than five ingredients.

13: Eat only foods that will eventually rot.

14: Eat foods made from ingredients that you can picture in their raw state or growing in nature.

23: Treat meat as a flavoring or special occasion food.

24: "Eating what stands on one leg (mushrooms & plants) is better than eating what stands on two legs (fowl), which is better than eating what stands on four legs (cows, pigs and other mammals)"--This is a Chinese proverb.

39: Eat all the junk food you want as long as you cook it yourself.

44: Pay more, eat less.

54: "Breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, dinner like a pauper."

56: Limit your snacks to unprocessed plant foods.

60: Treat treats as treats.--(The s-policy, "no snacks, no seconds, no sweets except on days that begin with the letter S"

63: Cook.

If you have any questions on the rules I have listed, please ask. Otherwise, BUY THE BOOK! Keep it in your purse and take it to the grocery store with you as a reminder. Each rule has a paragraph or two that explains the reasoning behind the rule.

Enjoy!!