Actually, he probably does mean my great-grandmother, who lived about 150 years ago in Lyon, the culinary capital of France. But that's not really helpful for most people.

I think he'd be better off picking a time period, since there are more and more adults whose great grandparents ate Jello with KoolWhip on it.

don't eat anything incapable of rotting

Like it. I keep trying to define process food - and the best I can come up with is food with extra ingredients ( excluding preservatives), or things I would not use in my kitchen. However, It doesn't mean I don't have processed food - but I do try and keep it to a small amount and as little extra as possible.

I also have a rule, don't eat anything that isn't tasty. There are lots of store bought cookies/ cakes etc- that really aren't very good. and I like most veggies and fruit.

I keep trying to figure out why we don't get that many green veggies in our diet. We like them, but it is the part of the meal I am most likely to skip.

Yeah, unless you happen to check the ingredients for "special sauce."

Thousand Island dressing... that's one ingredient, right?

--Don’t eat anything that your great-grandmother wouldn’t recognize as food

My great grandmother was a Kinkaid who escapedemigrated from 19th century Ireland, people. Black pudding and coddle! The overlap of what we'd both recognize as food consists entirely of soda bread and Guinness.

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.

For those nights when Emmett is over at his mom's, I do feel the need to point out that I find the first three at least edible and sometimes delicious depending on the recipe, and I am an utter whore for the last two.

Mmm, Guinness.

frozen artichoke hearts - I was very happy to find them. i wonder if I have any in the freezer...

or things I would not use in my kitchen.

For me this is key. If it's something I wouldn't use if I were making that item, I probably shouldn't be eating it. But then again, I really don't eat that much that is processed anyway. However, I don't always make the best choices either. I should be eating way more leafy greens for example.

I am an utter whore for the last two.

Hmmm, I foresee my couscous with walnuts and artichoke hearts in the near future.

I foresee my couscous with walnuts and artichoke hearts in the near future.

To borrow a neologism from Nilly: ::swounces::