{"id":45,"date":"2020-03-17T04:57:09","date_gmt":"2020-03-17T04:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gssunnytrails.com\/online-journeys\/?p=45"},"modified":"2025-04-28T11:58:47","modified_gmt":"2025-04-28T18:58:47","slug":"week-4-you-are-what-you-eat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gssunnytrails.com\/online-journeys\/week-4-you-are-what-you-eat\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 4 &#8211; You Are What You Eat"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"\">This time we&#8217;re going to think about some of the local foods in your area and discuss the food traditions in our families, communities and religion. We&#8217;re also going to talk about our relationships with food.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Choose one area to write about and then comment\non things that have been written in three other areas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li class=\"\"><strong>Foods from your culture:<\/strong> <br>Does your family enjoy tacos, beans and rice and<br>other foods influenced by your proximity or closeness to Mexico? Do you think that the fact that beans and corn grow well in your climate influenced the choices of foods that were eaten in this area? Have you ever heard your parents talking about \u201cfoods Grandma used to make\u201d or \u201cfoods they remember from \u2018The Old Country\u2019? Go on the discussion board and contribute to the discussion about how our culture and country of origin influences what foods we like to eat. What are the foods that you love from your family\u2019s culture? Why are they special to you?<br>&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\"><strong>Foods from your community:<\/strong> <br>Think about the foods that are important in our local community. Are there any lemons, oranges or other fruit trees growing in your yard? Do you know that our area was full of farm fields and vegetable and fruit packing houses 70 years ago? Does your family grow any food in the backyard? Go to the discussion board and share an experience of growing food or eating food at a local festival. Do you think things taste better if you grow them yourself? What is the benefit to growing and eating food that you\u2019ve grown yourself?<br><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\"><strong>Food traditions in your family:<\/strong> <br>Do you celebrate your birthday with a cake? &nbsp;Do you have pizza or fish every Friday or pot roast on Sunday? Many families used to have a traditional food to eat on a<br>particular day of the week. Are there special foods like tamales or cookies that your family makes during the holidays? Does your family insist that you \u201cclean your plate\u201d or that you \u201ctry a little of everything that you\u2019ve been served\u201d? Go on the discussion board and talk about a family tradition surrounding particular foods or meals. Do these foods bring back happy memories? Thinking about them now, what feelings and thoughts come to mind?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li class=\"\"><strong>Food as reward or punishment<\/strong>: <br>When you get an A on a paper does your family go out for dinner or celebrate with an ice cream cone? When you got a shot at the doctor\u2019s office or skinned your knee did you ever get a lollipop or other treat? Did you ever get punished by going without dinner or dessert?&nbsp; Go on the discussion board and share a memory of when  food was used as a reward or punishment. Do you think that using food as a reward is a good thing? Why or why not?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li class=\"\"><strong>Honor Thy Food <\/strong><br>Giving thanks to God for food is as old as history and may have been part of your experience at camp or around your table at family meals. Read pages 36-39 in Sow What if you have the book. Go on the discussion board and contribute to the conversation. Are there foods that are part of your family\u2019s practice of religion? Do you practice any rituals like prayer before meals or fasting at holidays? Is sharing bread and wine part of the practice of communion at your church? In what way is food a spiritual experience for you? How could you make a  meal more meaningful? Would that be a good thing for your family?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li class=\"\"><strong>Good Foods\/Bad Foods. <\/strong><br>Foods aren\u2019t actually good or bad but if a food is full of sugar or highly processed we sometimes say it\u2019s a bad food or bad for our health. Do you think of yourself as good or bad when you eat different foods? Go on the discussion board and share your feelings about food and dieting. Does dieting sometimes warp our feelings about food as nourishment and make it unrealistically desirable? Do you have cravings for foods? Do you have an unhealthy relationship with food? Do you use food to control yourself or people around you? Talk about how food can make you feel.<br><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\"><strong>Food Values <\/strong><br>Some of the things we\u2019re learning about on this journey involve values. Issues like fair trade, slow food, sustainability. We\u2019re learning to appreciate locally grown foods and the people who grow them. We\u2019re becoming mindful of the number of miles that our food has traveled and thinking about how food and packaging impact the environment. Go to the discussion board and write about how you could make a difference by changing your values and educating and inspiring others to improve the food network.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This time we&#8217;re going to think about some of the local foods in your area and discuss the food traditions in our families, communities and religion. We&#8217;re also going to talk about our relationships with food. 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