HW4

The eating habits I have now are a lot like my eating of my parents and there parents. My mother’s parents had good food habits and she had a father who worked out. They always ate three good healthy meals a day, two of which were always spent together. My mother became a nutritionist when she grew up and got even better eating habits than her parents instilled on her. Her eating habits now are the most prices habits a person could have. Every day she eats a bowl of rice chex and low fat milk, a turkey sandwich with two thin slices of turkey on whole wheat bread and one low fat yogurt, half a red pepper and a slice of watermelon. Then she eats two measured out cups of chocolate ice cream, the only thing with calories all day. My mother only likes certain things and she watches her wait very closely. She had lived with these habits for more than 20 years.

My father came from a family with ok food habits but then he developed bad habits when he moved to Jersey. When my father got married he moved to Jersey and had an Italian wife who ate a lot and cook in oils and grease. My father then devolved better habits after marrying my mom. On the daily my father eats no breakfast, a small lunch, take out and popcorn or ice cream. He has gotten healthier since living with my mother.

My food habits have changed between both my parents’ food habits. In my younger years I was more like my dad eating what I wanted to till I was full which made me fat. Then as I got older I started acting more like my mom by eating mostly healthy food and watching calories and only eating small amounts of sweets but I don’t hold these habits as much as a life style as she does. I just watch what I eat and I need to have verity in my food. Both my parents have no verity in their food habits, which is mind blowing to me. A lot of these differences between my food habits and my parent is generational.

There are generational differences in my grandparents eating habits to the current eating habits I have to day. My grandparent’s made my mom; aunt and uncle eat together every day. They would not start eating till every one was there. My other grandparents ate together but not as much. They ate together when they could but when my dad was 13 he started working two jobs to help his family so he doesn’t really remember eating together. My parents raised me were we only would eat together on Sunday but it would not be us just eating together. It would start at 7:00 when 60 minutes was on and we would only talked during commercial, which I didn’t mind but every other night I sit in front of the TV around 6 to eat. The big change in why people don’t eat, as a family anymore is a big part of the 21^st. People before didn’t have TV’s or computers to occupy them so they did the family thing as a form of entertainment.

These theories about food ways in my family are proven in my refrigerator. My mom has her stuff, I have a verity of things but no junk food and my dad has his take out. My refrigerator is always packed because I like a verity of foods. There is no one big meal my whole family can eat together in my refrigerator.