Maggie's Farm

I don't care what other people eat, and I never try to influence them. I know many people hereabouts who eat way too much of the worst kind of just plain bad food, but that's their choice, and they have to live with their obesity and related issues.

While hardly obsessed, I do pay a lot of attention to what I eat, because it matters to my particular health situation. One very common food puts me into a scary anaphylaxis, and I have been sick and miserable because of a physical intolerance to a couple of other foods, one very common. My allergist says it's a real issue, and when I avoid that food my symptoms disappear.

So I cook a lot, using fresh and simple ingredients, and when I do eat out it means avoiding those foods I must avoid. Eating well gives me real enjoyment, being sloppy about selecting foods makes me physically ill on too many occasions.

My better half lost scores of pounds after breaking some bad habits earlier in life, and today we are healthy and contented by paying attention to good ingredients well prepared, by us or when we eat out. Life is better this way, and there is nothing the least bit neurotic about our approach to food.