Broccoli

Today, I ate broccoli. Several weeks ago I decided that I was going to make a concerted effort to eat fruits and vegetables. Not a big deal, right? Well, yeah, it kinda is. I like fruits and vegetables well enough. I mean, they’re not a cheeseburger and fries, but they’re fine. The problem is two-fold. First, I have figured out that I can maintain my figure and only eat a few veggies here and there. If I had to eat them to stay in my jeans, then, baby, I would be eating some serious roots, and plants, and what not. But, honestly, that’s just not the case. Second, it takes actual effort to eat fruits vegetables. Let’s begin with fruit, you have to pick the right ones or they taste, well, for lack of more sophisticated verbiage, nasty. I have a difficult time finding the 10 minutes in which a plum tastes good. On to veggies, the problem here is laziness. I hate to cook. I love food from a can, box, or some sort of carton/tub that resides in the refrigerator and takes less than 5 minutes to prepare. I don’t like cutting, chopping, steaming…what an enormous pain in the butt!! So, in light of my issues, I have decided to buy frozen veggies which I can prepare pretty quickly, not as quickly as a bowl of cereal but I can handle it. I also have decided that organic fruit really does taste better than the fruit that is not grown by hippies. I’ve begrudgingly started buying organic fruit and giving each piece a big sniff before it gets chosen. The ones that don’t make the cut get tossed back into the pile with nose germs on them…maybe it makes them more organic?? So, I’ve been doing a great job on my new goal. I’ve eaten plants and crap every day! Well, except that one day I made beanie-weenie…shut up, I used turkey hotdogs!