How Has Food Shaped or Defined You?

Thinking about food, I would say like others that food shapes identity. It shapes the way that we look at life and other issues concerning life. Food has defined me too. I have found out that in the recent past, I have my peculiar selection of foods that are the only foods that I can feed on. Unlike the past, I now do not believe in just eating. I believe eating should be healthy because it is a key determinant of the general health of the body. I, therefore, have changed my view concerning life I believe that life is purposed to be lived in a healthy manner and hence healthy eating is not a choice. A healthy diet is, however, one that is choosy and thus, have found myself choosey on foods unlike when I was a kid.

When I was young, I used to hate organic foods. I used to specifically hate foods such as avocados, cabbage greens, proteins such as beans and full grain flour. My outlook on these foods when I was young was that they were not delicious. Il used to think that they were foods that were given to use basically because our family could not afford the best foods that I could think of. Organic foods as I have learned are not some of the best tasting foods. As a kid, I used to find the foods tasting badly.  Even when they were cooked and delicious I used to hate them because I thought that they are not the nest that should have been offered to us. An identity of poverty, therefore, forced my hate for organic foods. I used to think that we could not afford good food that made use to be fed on organic foods. My hate for organic food was thus an identity that could not be erased in me as a kid.

I was a very selective kid because; I used to love junk foods. I would ask around for chocolate cookies, ice cream, chips, and cakes amongst other junk foods.  It is true that junk foods are some of the best tasting foods. They taste good yet, they are the unhealthiest foods. I, however, used to love them because they tasted nice, they showed some aspect of affordability, and one could enjoy while eating them.  Unimaginably, I have today cut short on junk foods. I have very little appreciation of junk foods, to say the least, I believe that they are unhealthy foods and therefore, I need not feed on them.

My outlook on food has gradually changed. As opposed to the time when I was a kid, I now think of organic foods as the best foods to feed on. I am likely to choose a meal of vegetable proteins such as beans and some whole grains as opposed to feeding on chips and chocolate. I am, therefore, gradually loving foods that I did not use to love when I was young. My current view of food has therefore been encapsulated by some other thinking of food that is not attached to the taste of food. It is rather one that is based n the nutritional effect of food. My outlook on food is, therefore, one that is opposed to the view I had as a child. I, for instance, prefer avocado against chocolate even when I used to love chocolate and hate avocados. 

Food has shaped my identity in such an effective manner. It defines me in terms of many issues. For instance, food defines the places where I am likely to go out for lunch, even when the same did not mean anything as a kid. Any food joint where they offered fast foods was welcome for me. However, today, I do not just sit in a food joint and just eat. I find myself evaluating the foods that the joint makes. Interestingly, I have realized that most joints sell fast foods. I often have a hard time to find a good food joint to feed on especially when I am in a new town or locality. My very thinking of food is, therefore, one that has instrumentally changed in the past few years which is the same reason that I believe that food has changed my behavior in a great way.

In conclusion, I would not help but think of food as an item of personal and general culture. Food determines the way that a person not only the way that a person feeds but also the people that one relates with and the places he or she feeds. As for me, I would say that food has shaped my outlook on life in view of physical health in the aspect that I should always feed on healthy food.  Foods such as vegetables, beans, full-grain foods, and avocado are some of the foods that I would never think of when I was a kid. I, however, have come to love them because I believe that they are healthy unlike in the past.