Michelle Teheux
2 min readApr 16, 2022

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What do you eat? We eat actual food we prepare ourselves. We very seldom eat out. It's untrue that you cannot bring your lunches to work. I did it while the editor of a paper who sometimes worked many more hours than that. It just means making extra and putting some in a container to take along the next day. It's not a luxury; it's how people of limited means who wish to eat healthy food do it. My weekly staples are cauliflower, broccoli, spinach, onions, brussels sprouts, assorted greens, avocado, sweet potatoes, olive oil, butter, eggs, apples, oranges, bananas, potatoes, cashews and almonds, plain yogurt, oatmeal, flours, salmon, olive oil, beans, lentils, garlic, chia seeds, ground flax ... that's mostly it, since my husband is a vegetarian. Where is the HFCS in this? Do you know how easy it is to cut up vegetables, drizzle them with olive oil and bake them? Anybody can do that. Cooking isn't a luxury. It's a basic thing everybody ought to be able to do, just as everyone should know how to do their laundry, sweep their floor or scrub their bathroom. Sometimes I do like to show off and make elaborate meals, but a meal can also just be spinach and onion sauted in a skillet and then stuffed into an omelet. That's a perfectly good quick dinner that will not take even 10 minutes. (A little cheese makes it better, although my husband doesn't like cheese so I don't add it to his). If you're too busy to do that, well, that's ridiculous. Don't even get me started on how amazingly simple it is to make chia pudding or overnight oatmeal in separate containers. In five minutes, you have breakfast for an entire week ready. I do not have a farm. I grow a few herbs and some tomatoes mostly. I buy 99 percent of what we eat from a discount supermarket.

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Michelle Teheux
Michelle Teheux

Written by Michelle Teheux

Lover of literature. Former newspaper editor. Fascinated by everything. Contact: michelleteheux@gmail.com. To buy me a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/michelleteheux

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