Wednesday, March 29, 2017

#SOL17 Food 29/31

2017 is the tenth year of the Slice of Life Story Challenge hosted by Two Writing Teachers, The goal is to write and post a "slice of life" story every day during the month of March. My seventh graders are also participating in a slimmed down version of the challenge, writing 10 slices during the month.

Slice of Life: Food


Food drives me crazy. The constantness of it. The fact that you can never be free from its grip on your life. The amount of effort that needs to go into it each day. The thinking, the deciding, the list-making, the shopping, the putting away, the cooking, the eating, the cleaning, and the more cleaning.

I know that it is an incredible privilege to be able to complain about food. Which is one more reason to feel terrible about complaining. But, even so, here I am, complaining.

I never liked making decisions about food, even as a kid. My parents will gladly regale you with stories of my endless menu-starings and my shocked deer-in-the-headlights looks when I was asked to order. Sometimes I think I was worried about making the wrong choice. Sometimes I think I just didn't actually have an opinion about the every-widening array of choices.

Even now, I rarely have opinions about what or where I'd like to eat. (And can I say, just as a matter of record, that sometimes "I don't care" or "I don't have any opinions" is an actual, legitimate response to a question about food and is not just a passive-aggressive attempt to make someone else make a decision that you then complain about? Thank you.)

It's not that I mind eating food. I just resent the amount of time it takes out of my everyday. If there were a simple, nutritionally sound way to get all my nutrients without the bother of buying, cooking, eating, and cleaning (and it wasn't made of people), then I would gladly sign up.


Now, off to feed the cats and figure out what to do about dinner ...

(Click here to read my previous Slice of Life Challenge posts.)

10 comments:

  1. Lately I've been trying to eat healthier, and I'm amazed at just how much time it takes to do so. As you said, it's a wonderful problem to have, but it has prompted me to simplify what I prepare (when my wife doesn't). Thanks for a fun graphic to go with your post!

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    1. You're welcome. (If teaching middle school has taught me anything, it's that there's a meme for that.)

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  2. I so relate to this. The necessity to feed ourselves and others is a constant irritation, and yes we're privileged to be in a position where we can be irritated by it, but that doesn't reduce my irritation!

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  3. I live how you wrapped this post up with feeding the cats. I always think about food. Sometimes it annoys me too.

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    1. I'd much rather be feeding someone else. (Plus, their food comes in easy choices. Which one? That one.)

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  4. One thing about the blogging challenge, once posted, you don't have anything to wash. Otherwise, there are certain common points.

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    1. I beg to differ. I liked Elisabeth's post recently about the need for drafting and reworking. I think there's plenty of posts from this month that could use some "washing" !

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  5. Food is a necessity and an annoyance all at the same time - wow, you really captured what I've been feeling lately as I try to figure out what to eat!

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