CHOICES

CHOICES

Ingredients:
2 tablespoons olive oil something about the importance you place on
½ tablespoon lemon juice food. Does buying, preparing, and eating food

Directions:
Salt and pepper have to be as convenient as possible for you,
and if so, why?
Mix all ingredients together, and if you want
more zing, add 1 teaspoon Dijon mustard. TO AID in reinventing your diet, it helps to
Now that’s easy! see your shopping expedition as a creative
act. The supermarket might strike you as the
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you rush into and try to get out of as quickly
Exercise:
as possible. If so, what does that say about
your relationship to food? For the duration of Get Fresher
this program, slow down and spend just fi ve
minutes more than normallooking at what’s on Do you have opportunities to buy more fresh
offer. Pick one section of the market and see foods, such as fresh vegetables and fi sh or
what you haven’t seen before; pick up a new meat, on the day you want to eat them? On your
vegetable, smell it, feel it, study the color. Or, if way home from work, do you pass any vendors
you like bread in your diet, look at the diversity that you could stop at? If you can shop more
of bread products you’d normally sprint past, than once a week, you will be more likely to eat
and read the labels. Each time you shop, make fresh food daily. And you become more con-
nected to the food you eat, getting more sensual
it a mission to bring home one new food, be
pleasure out of selecting vibrant, wholesome
it a leafy, green vegetable you haven’t used
items and eating them when they’re at their best.
before, a new grain like quinoa or whole-wheat
Make the intention to alter your food-shopping
couscous, or dark berries. There is huge value
routine for the week.
in introducing just one new food each time you
•If you rarely do an organized shopping trip for