I live in Canada and I like to think I eat healthy relative to the average Canadian. I recently went to visit the Balkans. I've been to Europe many times but I have never ate the food from regular supermarkets there. I could not help but notice that the food in the Balkans was of much higher quality than the food in Canada. It just tasted better, and it was most likely healthier.
I then read that due to bad food quality in Canada and the U.S. male testosterone levels have been decreasing for the past 40 years or more.
How do I eat healthy food in Canada? Even the "organic" food does not taste right.
will respond more fully to this later; may i inquire about your food budget? there is a lot of great produce in north america, yet to procure it can be expensive and time-consuming, it is not far off from doing the logistics of running a specialty food co-op. pure food, whether bio/eco/organic or just grown on trees or natural soil without excessive chemical application, costs about 1/2 in europe what it does in USA, which itself seems cheaper than Canada in terms of food prices. traveling to himalayan countries, southeast asian countries, borneo, et cetera is a good way to recharge in between produce-logistics sessions. personally i go to bio expos, organic raw vegan restaurants, and vegan expos and ask lots of questions at all of them. in europe farm and distributor information is often on produce crates so it is possible to pilfer that info without asking if the situation calls for it, and even more often the region the produce came from is listed even if there is no other info. if a region is producing yummy plants then it is perhaps worth going and driving around meetint farmers and making deals. some will ship boxes, others have 1/4, 1/2, or 1 pallette minimums. distributors are the same in this regard. the restaurant supply chains are usually different from market supply chains so if you have a really good restaurant meal consider returning often for that until you source stuff that helps you feel even better. in the meantime i also recommend canned vegetables and fruit from asia, a lot of it is excellent, and the organic stuff is cheap compared to western canned goods. thai and vietnamese fruit juices, coconut waters and rice/rice noodles and such have good to great value depending on the specimens and brands. for local produce i recommend peeling and deseeding most plants except for when you greatly prefer to eat the skins and/or seeds. for some of us exotic food colors like bold purples, blues, magentas, and turquoises help. organic brands of maqui, blue spirulina, pitaya/dragonfruit, and matcha are my recommendations there. organic blue spirulina + divine organics Andean green spirulina if one is intensely preferential of turquoise. for nuts and seeds i recommend raw and trying brands online til finding one's favorites. sometimes local markets do have the best stuff, but not always. anyway eating wild flowers helps a lot, as do some exotic plants like perilla frutescens and its oils, borage, evening primrose (hard to find culinary oils of these), organic marijuana, salvia divinorum, and innumerable ones you will discover on your journey. organic edible flower essences are good also. eating a lot of botanical fruit flesh, any of the plants with seeds within or near the edible flesh, is an easy way to keep good health indefinitely. staying mostly raw and following your spirit plants and plant types from there is the path beyond mainstream fruitarianism to your own soul paths. also i don't recommend too much blending and juicing, processed foods are fine but it's an additive thing, less is more and the time savings of eating food in the form it is bought or with minimal shaking and stirring is quite valuable. this, high-raw, and following your personal rainbows of whatever colors will help makethings simpler and cheaper with time
oh, and in north america native forests sells some great and organic cheap canned and jarred produce. there are probably a bunch of others selling good stuff from central and south america. for better or worse i do find making amazon food lists helpful, a lot is on there compared to 5-10 years ago. the fresh stuff is typically more energizing yet i personally find pure stuff and variety to be more satisfying than having a lot of fresh stuff that is excessively contaminated. it's all situational and personal-preferential though. follow your instincts and whimsies
for red and orange-loving people stuff like peeled whole tomatoes from europe, goji berries, spicy peppers, goji with lemon for bold orange, deseeding strawberries, and fresh papayas help a lot. unsure about green, maybe honeydew melons, galia melons, planting one's favorite greens, green flowers like lettuces and kales, adding spirulina to fruit flesh, that sort of thing. yellow flower petals, mangoes, yellow bananas (they come in the full rainbow, unsure how much the flesh varies), durian , passionfruit, et cetera for yellow. people more into those tones will have better advice. i recommend Miami Fruits, unsure if there are issues with customs in Canada opening the boxes or whatever but they are responsive to inquiries and can customize your shipping boxes and bags or whatever if you leave notes with the orders. they have stuff like mamey sapotes and star fruits and sour apples, lots of good warm-tones. some magenta fruits also. for magenta i like purple cabbages and blueberry jams and such. in the future i will try setting up porcelain berry trade in iroquois regions shipping beyond, and beauty berry trade also perhaps. also tundra honeyberry and juniper and such. have fun exploring, perhaps look for plants and authors and such on erowid.org, with time more people will awaken and the produce quality and variety will improve together
I live in Canada and I like to think I eat healthy relative to the average Canadian. I recently went to visit the Balkans. I've been to Europe many times but I have never ate the food from regular supermarkets there. I could not help but notice that the food in the Balkans was of much higher quality than the food in Canada. It just tasted better, and it was most likely healthier.
I then read that due to bad food quality in Canada and the U.S. male testosterone levels have been decreasing for the past 40 years or more.
How do I eat healthy food in Canada? Even the "organic" food does not taste right.