hw #4

My family and I have a very similar eating style and system. We do because of the simple fact that we were raised this way. The foods that are mostly eaten are meats such as; beef and chicken. Majority of the time these food are fried. They are because of the cultural background of my family. As a Caribbean family fried foods are as normal as salad to a vegetarian. A question that my family and i have to ask ourselves are “what are the longterm affects of these foods?” Just because healthy foods are not always compacted into my menu and diet does not mean food is not important to my family and i. 

While growing up i was not the best cook so i was raised by mothers cooking. I asked my mother; “What are your values about food?” she said “Food was very important and what ever was put in front of you, you had to eat.” Her answer helped me realize how she was raised according to food. Food was a part of their economic struggle, that is why eating what you had was so important. The food was limited so they were not positive they will have more the next day so take advantage of what you have. This relates to how my Mother raised me around food, the phrase she would say religiously would be; “you better not waste your food.” This was better understood when i found out that food was a economic struggle for her when she was younger and maybe still is today.

While looking in my fridge i noticed the cartons of juice, bottles of soda, sweets, but there is a whole draw just for fresh vegetables. My typical meal always contains of some vegetables because my family tries to make an effort to keep us healthy by the food were eating. One thing i noticed was that the older generations in my family don't hesitate to feed the younger generations basically anything they want. When it comes to them selves they watch what they are eating more carefully. One of the reasons why they do this is because they feel because they are older they are less healthy and they cant deserve to eat unhealthy as if they were young. The thing they don't understand is that the cycle will keep repeating and that we are killing ourselves slowly when we are young. If we start off eating healthy and watching what we eat we wouldn't have to be so concerned with it when we reach a certain age.