plant Based Future (part 4)

How the past can help us with the future

In this last part about "plant based future food" i would like to share a very simple and practical approach towards a more plant forward future, with a small and simple lifestyle change.

For this we should actually go back to the past, to the times were food was enjoyed as a traditional daily get together around family and friends, with classical homemade unprocessed foods from responsible produced regional and seasonal products.

Many of us talk very often about their mothers and grandmothers cooking, and that their best memories of delicious and nutritious foods are these: "my mother is the best cook" memories.

What did our mothers and grandmothers do different compared to the modern day mothers

and why did their food taste so much different, so much better, and so much more memorable. In my opinion the answer to this is very easy, nowadays food is much more a conventional necessity and just a part of our daily existence which needs to be dealt with. Mostly eating has to be executed as quick as possible, because our lives are so busy and filled with so many other more important activities that enjoying eating and cooking is more a burden than a pleasure. In the past family dinners were much more common than nowadays, and those who still remember this will know that these daily get togethers were a food celebration. Especially Sunday dinners were memorisable events where we looked forward to all week.

Maybe its time to change our modern lifestyle and take some more time in creating sustainable, regional and local foods and dishes with our own hands, our own creativity (with some of grandmothers recipes) so we can support our own health and the planets health.

Over time the food industry adjusted to all our changing lifestyles and has come up with many processed, fast and easy to eat, cook or heat-up foods with many additional additives and artificial tastes and shapes. Funny enough many of these industrial produced foods try to imitate the old-fashioned homemade foods we memorised from the past.

So just to understand and recap correctly:

with a modern, unsustainable, energy consuming, logistic intensive, and not very healthy industrial food production we are trying to create an image of healthy and traditional foods

that wants to suggest us remembering the foods of the past.

Additionally new trends from the modern food industry going towards more Plant Based foods, are replacing animal proteins with industrial produced vegetable proteins in the shape and with the taste of animal proteins - why? who understands?

The idea is generally not wrong - there are other ways though - to create our plant forward future and looking back into the past might be an initiative that can support us.

Why not just go back in the past and cook again as our mothers and grandmothers did and use modern technology and equipment to increase production time. so a win-win solution.

By organising our lifestyle differently, taking a bit more time in general for breakfast, lunch or dinner and turning back to cooking ourselves with regional and seasonal produce following traditional recipes, with a reduction of animal proteins, and by using modern cooking equipment to increase the time factor, could be a very easy road to a better plant forward lifestyle, and especially giving us the opportunity by taking some more quality time, to share it with family and friends.

There are many many online recipes available all over the internet for all these kind of healthy tasty and nutritious recipes without needing all the food industry additives, chemicals and flavour enhancer

Think of it,

I really believe that the past can support us towards a plant based future