Hw#4-Your Families Foodways

Growing up in a hispanic background you learn that you eat the typical rice, beans, chicken, pork and all that good stuff but at the same time even though it's delicious, it is damaging us as well. Sometimes in different cultures you have all this great foods not just in my culture and it is bad. As generations go on and on some families try to get healthier and eat properly to live better lives which is what my mom has tried to do for herself and my sister.

From talking with my mom, she grew in a household that my grandmother would fry everything. Fried chicken, porkchops and all the things you can imagine. Even though she learned how to make the proper hispanic meals, she tries to do little things in the meals she makes to make it "healthier" such as putting vegetables etc. Seeing how my grandmother raised her, she decided to go a different route. She said "they were high in fat and it would cost more damage than good" which i find to be true. I feel like my grandmother was you basically eat what she cooked did not watch if it was healthy or not.

I think that if i would have spoken to my grandmother that she would say that basically they ate what they had and it did not matter if it was killing them or helping them. I feel like during her generation with her children (my mother) she did not understand the concept of being "healthy". From my photo above you can see that i had pancakes and sausages and some strawberries to be "healthy" trying to add some fruit in my meals even if it is a little gesture.

When it comes to my foodways i don't really pay attention. I eat whatever is insight most likely because i am hungry. Sometimes i do try to eat healthy like the way my mom cooks in the house but it does not always work. Compared to my mother or my family in general, she eats the healthiest out of everybody. She eats the smallest portion to and tries to contributes the fruits and vegetables onto her plate. I feel like it does not matter how much you try to pass down the heealthness to your children and family they won't listen unless you are very mandatory and strict about what they eat.