Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Food #1- Refrigerator List

Here's what's in my refrigerator:

Drinks:
-Poland Spring water
-Skim milk 
-Nesquick chocolate milk 
-Tropicana orange juice
-Ivi sour cherry (popular Greek juice)
-Homemade lemonade (squeezed lemons & water) 
-Fanta orange soda 
-Corona lite beer 
-Robola (type of Greek wine)
-Ouzo 

Food:
-Strawberries 
-Blueberries 
-Carrots 
-Lemons
-Lettuce
-Celery 
-Oranges
-Mangos
-Peppers
-Pears
-Spinach
-Tomatoes
-Cucumbers
-Grapes
-Kiwi
-Parsley
-Broccoli
-Cauliflower 
-Brussel sprouts
-Zucchini 
-Feta cheese
-Olives 
-Sakoula yogurt (Greek yogurt served with honey)
-Artichokes 
-Asparagus 
-Organic eggs 
-Butter stick
-Salmon (cooked; with tomatoes & oregano) 
-Bamies (google says it's okra in English)
-Eggplant
-Shrimp in latholemono sauce
-Potatoes 
-Ketchup 
-Mustard 
-Mayonnaise 
-Olive oil
-Vinegar 
-Fillo dough 
-Calamari 
-Stuffed grape leaves 
-Tzatziki (used as dressing) 
-Small bowl octopus salad 
-Lamb 
-Agria Horta (various "wild" vegetables mixed together, eaten with olive oil)
-Black beans with rice
-Avocado sushi rolls
-Flan (Spanish desert)

Analysis: 
The first thing you can tell is that we just went grocery shopping (which we do around every 2 or 3 weeks), and our fridge is full. 

As for the contents of my fridge, I think it shows that we don't eat the way a "typical American" eats. We still keep our Greek culture strong, and that's around 90% of what we eat. The other 10% we mix it up, such as the avocado sushi which is Japanese and the Flan which is Spanish. We almost never order food; it happens less than once a month. If we do, we order from either the Indian or Ethiopian places by our house, so I guess not even that is typical American. 

In my family, we really enjoy everything about food; buying it, cooking it, and of course eating it (yet, no one in my family is obease or overweight). So I would say my relationship with food is good, natural, and not stressful at all. 

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