Finding real food is a challenge in our toxic food supply. Try driving across country, for example, if you want a delightful poison fest. At home, at least you can find your reliable sources, but if you’re traveling then you have to think like a hunter-gatherer. Ancient people learned through trial and error not to eat certain plants, mushrooms, insects and other living creatures as certain substances were poisonous. If sickness and death were immediate then hunter-gatherers said, “Self, don’t eat that next time you see it.”
Finding real food away from home is a key skill to hone for us modern day hunter-gatherers if we want to stay healthy. There are lots of poisonous substances available to eat. If we eat these substances we may not suffer the same immediate and acute effects as, say, eating a poisonous mushroom, but we will suffer from cumulative damage to our cells, tissues and organs. So even though we don’t die immediately from poisonous factory food, we will age much, much faster and eventually we will linger with steel shunts stuck in our veins, hooked up to all kinds of space-aged tubes, with beeping monitors. And we still die eventually from the poison we ingested.
So we need to think like hunter-gatherers starting before we leave home. Hunter gatherers knew they needed to take every opportunity to get food in case they wandered into an area where food was scarce. For example, I never get on an airplane without taking my own supply of food. Having your own food is a relief when you are hungry but eating good food also passes the time in a most pleasant way. I also take fun things to the movies to eat. Everything from steak sandwiches, to cut up apples and cheese, to my own homemade popcorn.
In addition to taking my own food, if I’m traveling, I stop along the way when there is an opportunity to buy real food. I’ve learned not to wait until I get to my destination because the hotel might not have decent, or any, room service late at night, all stores may be closed and the only option might be fast food, which I personally would rather go hungry than eat. Even if I spy a lone banana at an airport kiosk, I grab it. This is what I mean by thinking like a hunter‑gatherer.
We recently stayed for two weeks in a hotel in Los Angeles. I called ahead and had the mini-bar cleaned out. Nothing more disgusting to me than all that candy and glurk. I went to Whole Foods and bought my own snacks and food. Here’s what our mini-bar typically looks like. (Sorry the picture is blurry.)
Vegetable juices, whole raw milk, yogurt, carrot sticks, guacamole, grapes, cheeses, bran muffins, organic butter, peanut butter, white wine, and whole cottage cheese.
It’s not half bad being a hunter-gatherer once you get used to it.
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WHAT I EAT – BE A HUNTER-GATHERER
Finding real food away from home is a key skill to hone for us modern day hunter-gatherers if we want to stay healthy. There are lots of poisonous substances available to eat. If we eat these substances we may not suffer the same immediate and acute effects as, say, eating a poisonous mushroom, but we will suffer from cumulative damage to our cells, tissues and organs. So even though we don’t die immediately from poisonous factory food, we will age much, much faster and eventually we will linger with steel shunts stuck in our veins, hooked up to all kinds of space-aged tubes, with beeping monitors. And we still die eventually from the poison we ingested.
So we need to think like hunter-gatherers starting before we leave home. Hunter gatherers knew they needed to take every opportunity to get food in case they wandered into an area where food was scarce. For example, I never get on an airplane without taking my own supply of food. Having your own food is a relief when you are hungry but eating good food also passes the time in a most pleasant way. I also take fun things to the movies to eat. Everything from steak sandwiches, to cut up apples and cheese, to my own homemade popcorn.
In addition to taking my own food, if I’m traveling, I stop along the way when there is an opportunity to buy real food. I’ve learned not to wait until I get to my destination because the hotel might not have decent, or any, room service late at night, all stores may be closed and the only option might be fast food, which I personally would rather go hungry than eat. Even if I spy a lone banana at an airport kiosk, I grab it. This is what I mean by thinking like a hunter‑gatherer.
We recently stayed for two weeks in a hotel in Los Angeles. I called ahead and had the mini-bar cleaned out. Nothing more disgusting to me than all that candy and glurk. I went to Whole Foods and bought my own snacks and food. Here’s what our mini-bar typically looks like. (Sorry the picture is blurry.)
Vegetable juices, whole raw milk, yogurt, carrot sticks, guacamole, grapes, cheeses, bran muffins, organic butter, peanut butter, white wine, and whole cottage cheese.
It’s not half bad being a hunter-gatherer once you get used to it.