Mar 7
Blogging the cancer: health food?
Last my good wife and I attempted to try another brand of wholewheat pasta to see what its like. We like pasta and are trying to find a healthy alternative to semolina. We are still regretting the decision. The stuff tasted like it was picked up off the dirt and it didn’t have a very good effect on either of our stomachs. Why do some health food manufacturers seem to think that being healthy means you have to suffer? This is not the first time I have tried a wholewheat something that was about as vile as it could be.
I have to say that supermarkets in the US are far better at catering to healthy alternatives that in the UK. Even in the biggest supermarket in the UK the choices are limited and unimaginative. What I am most perturbed by is the lack of decent non-white bread here in the UK. You have choice of bog standard stuff or odd harsh ones; no decent pumpernickel or rye to be had.
The alternative is to go into those wonderful healthfood stores. You know the ones staffed by people with dubious cleaning habits lathered up with cheap patouli. These places spend more time going on about how “right-on” they are than actually stocking anything interesting.
Is it any wonder why people go back to bad habits when being healthy is such a pain?
And today I mean that quite literally.
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