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Real cultural changes are needed to turn this around. Somehow, no-nonsense cooking and eating — roasting a chicken, making a grilled cheese sandwich, scrambling an egg, tossing a salad — must become popular again, and valued not just by hipsters in Brooklyn or locavores in Berkeley. The smart campaign is not to get McDonald’s to serve better food but to get people to see cooking as a joy rather than a burden, or at least as part of a normal life.
I feel like a weirdo for obsessively keeping track of my food consumption for the day, but I have successfully reduced my sodium intake to a number that I am happy with.
It is so easy to pop something in the microwave when you’re short on time, but I hate eating preservatives because I want to feel good about what I put in my body. Can the difficulty of eating healthy food in this country be attributed to laziness, or apathy?
