Whatever I go to see my doctor, she always grills me about my eating habits.
Granted, I have a heart condition so good nutrition is an essential part of my staying healthy.
However, based on the questions she asks me, I can only assume that the majority of her patients must eat like shit.
Similarly, she always seems a little bit surprised that I essentially don't eat any processed food. I suppose that makes me almost Un-American in some ways!
Growing up in Denmark and being the child of parents who had a large kitchen garden at all times, I was raised on Fresh food. In the 1960s in Denmark I also don't really remember there being such a thing as processed food in a box... so it just wasn't part of our menu. About as close to "processed" as we would get would be on the rare occasion when my mom would buy a package of frozen fish fillets that had been breaded.
Anyway, I grew up under the impression that food was something you cooked from scratch from fresh ingredients. I suppose I should also add to this that being Danish also meant that I did not grow up in a place that had much of an eat-out culture. Most Danes just don't eat out because going to a restaurant in Denmark is prohibitively expensive!
But getting back to my doctor and processed food for a moment, Mrs Denmarkguy was on a crisis call with a client this evening and I decided I needed something to eat. Since it was already getting late and I wasn't prepared to cook myself a full dinner at 9:30, I decided to poke around in the freezer and found a bag of frozen chicken nuggets that we keep on hand in case we have somebody with kids visiting.
So I popped a handful of these things into the air fryer and set the timer for 12 minutes and... well... got a better first hand impression of why it is I don't like processed food.
I mean... these things looked crispy and golden — and the smell in the air was vaguely of fried chicken — but the whole experience was pretty much like eating a piece of breaded cardboard pulp that tasted vaguely like chicken. Not exactly a culinary success, even when smothered in barbecue sauce!
Normally we do have a fair range of ingredients on hands to make a quick meal for one, but for a variety of reasons most everything in the fridge looked precisely like dinner for two and we sort of have our meals planned out for the rest of the world so that's why I took a chance on these chicken nuggets.
Now, in my defense — and to a lesser degree to the nuggets' defense — I have to confess that when I'm on a long road trip and I don't have a sandwich along, one of the things I do do sometimes is stop at a McDonald's and get McNuggets. Yes, I just said that!
Somehow they taste better when you're on the road and really hungry and your legs have been in a sitting position for many hours!
One thing is for certain. My doctor is never going to know that I had these things for dinner and actually resorted to eating processed food... because I would never hear the end of it! And I just don't have it in me to listen to one of her lectures about how it's clogging up my arteries.
That's my story, and I'm sticking to it!
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