My diet doesn't fit into any easy label.
When I say I'm vegetarian, friends raise their eyebrows over my occasional hamburger and call me a fake. When I say I'm a flexitarian, it's dismissed as lazy vegetarianism. When I say I'm a locavore, well, people are just confused.
The truth is, none of these dietary labels are accurate in the first place. For me, food is highly personal, and my needs and intuitions change over time - daily, sometimes.
Currently, my diet could be described as a semi-locavore lacto-ovo-pesce-pollo-flexitarian. But who really understands or wants to hear that?
If anything, I'm an intuitive eater. (An intuitian? Intuivore? Hmm.)
When I say I'm vegetarian, friends raise their eyebrows over my occasional hamburger and call me a fake. When I say I'm a flexitarian, it's dismissed as lazy vegetarianism. When I say I'm a locavore, well, people are just confused.
The truth is, none of these dietary labels are accurate in the first place. For me, food is highly personal, and my needs and intuitions change over time - daily, sometimes.
Currently, my diet could be described as a semi-locavore lacto-ovo-pesce-pollo-flexitarian. But who really understands or wants to hear that?
If anything, I'm an intuitive eater. (An intuitian? Intuivore? Hmm.)
My food logic changes often, but it always takes into account: 1) environmental impact, 2) personal impact, and 3) social impact.
If there's any algorithm to my dietary choices, it looks something like this:
If there's any algorithm to my dietary choices, it looks something like this:
Nifty, huh? But when it really comes down to it, I listen to my gut - in more ways than one.
What's your dietary style? Why do you make the food choices that you do?
Featured on Food Renegade's Fight Back Friday!
What's your dietary style? Why do you make the food choices that you do?
Featured on Food Renegade's Fight Back Friday!
