"REAL" Food

agleckle

A new, pretty overweight girl started at my work today and she made a comment about how she was so hungry but forgot her lunch. I offered her an extra banana that I have, as well as some whole wheat bread and some peanut butter. She looked at it and was like “Umm, no, I want real food… I’m going to see if Jimmy John’s delivers here”. She proceeded to call them, but I guess they don’t deliver far enough to reach my office. Once again, I offered the banana, bread and peanut butter. She still turned it down, saying she was hungry for “real” food… but apparently she would rather eat nothing than eat the healthy stuff I offered. Wow. I was a little offended and I’m positive the food I offered is more REAL than what she was going to get from Jimmy John’s.

Does anyone else have people that don't consider the healthy food you eat to be "real" food?

ritmeyer

I don't even get what that means...how are any of the things you offered not "real" food.

What I get alot of is when they are doing a fast food run and I decline: "Oh, yeah. She's sooo healthy. :eye roll:" Hey, I eat chick fil a now and again, but you really should make me feel bad about eating healthy. I'm so dumb and annoying over here with my salad and fruit.

live4turns

I guess she was keepin' it real...real fat that is.

noneya2010

I wouldn't take it personal -- just a personal choice she has in what she eats and it clearly wasn't banana's! lol

stevwil41

Depending on what you choose, Jimmy John's has some reasonably healthy choices but from the sound of it I doubt she would have chosen any of them...

Anyway, my mother had quadruple bypass back in September and pretty much refuses to eat anything healthy. She's supposed to be limited to 3 eggs a week. That doesn't happen. It took me a month and a half (and buying a package myself) to get her to try turkey sausage rather than regular sausage. I was subjected to seriously annoying questions like "What does it taste like?", "Is it weird?", and "Why do you eat it?". My answers were "turkey sausage", "no", and "Because I've been fat for 20 years and don't want to stay that way". And don't even get my started on her idea of buying bread...

Anyway, so no, it's not just you but everyone does have different ideas of what they consider "real" food. I can force myself to eat a banana but I don't really enjoy it and will choose almost anything else in place of one but that's just me.

Molly182

I was hoping this thread would have some advice on "real" food. How to go from processed foods to "real" foods lol.

That being said lol I agree with you. Your food was more real than what she was wanting.

UponThisRock

Now I'm craving a bootlegger club, thanks a lot.

yesthistime

Maybe by "real food" she meant a put-together meal, rather than what appeared to her to be separate food items. I know several people who don't cook often and when they open a fridge or freezer full of food, they still think there's "nothing to eat" because they see components of a meal and not a prepared meal.

She also may have meant that she was hungry for something savory and heavy, rather than sweet and snack-like in her mind.

CoderGal

I don't even get what that means...how are any of the things you offered not "real" food.

What I get alot of is when they are doing a fast food run and I decline: "Oh, yeah. She's sooo healthy. :eye roll:" Hey, I eat chick fil a now and again, but you really should make me feel bad about eating healthy. I'm so dumb and annoying over here with my salad and fruit.

haha loving that comment, I've heard it so much and I've felt the same way.

chrisdavey

The only thing that could have made you're sandwich better was if the PB was PB&CO dark choc. It is the greatest "real food" combo in history. I kid you not

That's the majority of society these days though. Hence why all the developed countries are getting fatter & health costs increasing.