because every recipe starts with a pound of butter and/or bacon.

Everything's better with bacon.

I am confused why people take things like 'eat like your great grandparents' so literally.

I'm not confused by it. I know that's not what he literally means. I just think it doesn't really mean anything at all. Just say, "Watch out for processed food" and maybe describe what processed food actually is and have that be your guideline.

And the no more than 5 ingredients thing is only sensible if you are eating processed food. My great big healthy salad I had for lunch today had way more than 5 ingredients! Lettuces, yellow bell pepper, carrots, grape tomatoes, gorgonzola crumbles, walnuts, boiled egg, vinaigrette (made of olive oil, balsamic vinegar, shallots, salt, & pepper). yum!

Everything's better with bacon.

or goose fat! The bacon of the poultry world.

And the no more than 5 ingredients thing is only sensible if you are eating processed food.

A lot of homemade bread recipes call for more than 5 ingredients. Or does even bread you make at home count as "processed"?

I just ate an omelet. Ingredients: eggs, butter, ham, feta, onions.

Phew.

No salt or pepper, Hec?

The 5 ingredients thing is a rule of thumb for store labels. It wouldn't apply to a salad where you can easily identify the ingredients, or anything homemade where you would most likely be able to identify the ingredients.

Just say, "Watch out for processed food" and maybe describe what processed food actually is and have that be your guideline.

That's what he's trying to do. The great grandparent guideline is one way to help you do that.

ETA: He actually provides an alternative for the "great-grandmother rule", which is "don't eat anything incapable of rotting".

A Gun and A Girl: A Girl and Her Gun (The Film)

Director Cathryne Czubek is making a full-length feature documentary about girls and guns, specifically the significantly growing number of teen girls who love guns (and are damn good at using them). Embedded above is the short version of the doc from Current, which is still in progress -- and OMG they have the prettiest guns! Rainbow grain rifles, shot wearing turquoise nail polish. I especially like the parts where they talk about how boys at school don't take them seriously -- and then they do. These young women clearly have no issues with equality or empowerment.

So tofu and edamame, he may not have eaten, and may not have recognized as real food, but I'm down with them!

My grandfather grew soybeans (and my uncle still does) and it wasn't until the past year or so that my mother actually ate edamame. I'm dubious as to whether it would be a 'food' item at my uncle's (though one xmas, he did send us a tin of various seasoned, dried soybeans.)

No salt or pepper, Hec?

Shit! Pepper.

Don't really need salt with feta cheese and ham in it.

Maybe next time green onions - 'cuz then I'd have a green vegetable in it.

When it comes to green vegetables about the only thing I eat with regularity is salad.

I do like broccoli, green beans, cabbage (depending on how it was cooked), asparagus and artichokes but they don't get made very often. That requires A Whole Extra Cooking Pan/Pot. And since I'm often cooking three separate meals (since JZ, Emmett and I have fairly little overlap in our preferences) that's one too many.

So instead: salad. Which is fine because we have lots of tasty greens out here.