Processed Food is Good Food
Do you know what we don’t have time for in this moment?
Fretting about consumption of processed food.
When I say “processed food,“ I imagine some perceive that description to mean something negative. Not so.
The processing of food is doing anything that makes it accessible/plausible/palatable for human consumption.
This is not the time for condemnation of food. Any food. All food is good food. All food fits. Processed. Or not. And if we are being honest, the only way to actually acquire unprocessed food is to pull it out of the ground ourselves.
Quinoa, a grain product that is certainly elevated by diet culture, is processed. It doesn’t grow in a bag. You can’t eat it without cooking it.
The homemade loaves of sourdough bread that I’m hearing all about are processed. Mixing flour with water and kneading is processing.
Cutting food. Peeling food. Cooking. Reheating. Microwaving. All processing.
And if something has been processed ahead of time, to make your life easier, that is food, too.
Frozen food is food.
Canned food is food.
Dehydrated food is food.
Premade food is food.
Restaurant food is food.
Packaged food is food.
Processed food is good food.
How would your relationship with processed food shift if you approached it with less judgment?
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