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| My family eating a dinner of wild rice soup, corn, and chicken |
My own family typically spends about $150 on food per week. Staple dishes and food items of ours include burritos, honey wheat bread, lentil soup, tostadas, atole, pomegranates, and baklava. My dad, the health nut of the family, once went on a fast with me wherein we consumed only Macintosh apples for four days-once every month for half a year. This was after he'd read Steve Jobs' biography, who apparently did the same thing (hence the company name Apple). I guess you could say we're a bit experimental with our dietary choices at my house.
Few things I love more than food, my family, and friends, so whenever we get together and eat with people, it's always enjoyable for me. In particular, we had friends where I lived last that were from Turkey. We had bonfires all the time in summer with them, feasting on dishes with names I couldn't pronounce and what came to be my favorite dish of all time-baklava. There's just something about being with the people you love, eating, and socializing that makes me feel alive. As always, it's interesting to see how my own life and small traditions compare with those of others. In some ways, seeing all the different plates from around the world made me want to venture out to different diets and maybe let go of the questionable foods.
But I'm still not giving up my burritos.
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