Thursday, October 21, 2010

Amusing Rules for a Better Diet

Eating a perfectly balanced and exceptionally healthy diet can be hard, but some friends and I came up with this list of simple but amusing rules that, if followed, will dramatically improve your diet.

  1. Don't eat anything you've seen advertised on TV
  2. Forge the outside isles of supermarkets, don't venture into the middle of the store.
  3. If it has an ingredients list, put it back
  4. If it has a cartoon or a prize it is not food, it's entertainment. Put it back.
  5. Avoid eating anything that leaves an orange stain on your fingers, it's not food.
  6. Eat lotsa different colorful plants.
  7. When choosing food colors, minimize the amount of brown food (exceptions to this include nuts and extra dark organic chocolate).
Other rules?

4 comments:

Chalicechick said...

If the cereal you're eating makes the milk change color, pick a different cereal next time.

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Mike Ignatowski said...

Great comment, especially if the color it changes the milk to is florescent.

Anonymous said...

Pick up a new vegetable every now and then. Something that scares you a little, that you really don't know anything about, how to cut it, whether to peel it, how long to cook it, or to leave it raw. Then learn about it. What IS a jerusalem artichoke? How do I use jicama? Celery root? Oh how weird and ugly! It's all good. Just learn, one thing at a time.

Ryan M. Barnett said...

Some great stuff on here ... keep writing.

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