Comments on: The Need and Desire for Convenience… http://jcarrot.org/the-need-and-desire-for-convenience/ Jews, Food, and Contemporary Issues Fri, 21 Nov 2008 23:28:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.2 By: Alix http://jcarrot.org/the-need-and-desire-for-convenience/#comment-213 Alix Sat, 10 Feb 2007 17:31:44 +0000 http://jcarrot.org/the-need-and-desire-for-convenience/#comment-213 I started making my own granola a few months ago, and I'm never going back to store-bought...I change it a bit each time, with different nuts or dried fruits, but it always has coconut flakes. I also bake it with much less oil than my recipe calls for, using apple juice instead. I bake it until almost done, it remains softer than store-bought granola, and it's oh so yummy. I started making my own granola a few months ago, and I’m never going back to store-bought…I change it a bit each time, with different nuts or dried fruits, but it always has coconut flakes. I also bake it with much less oil than my recipe calls for, using apple juice instead. I bake it until almost done, it remains softer than store-bought granola, and it’s oh so yummy.

]]> By: Ben Murane http://jcarrot.org/the-need-and-desire-for-convenience/#comment-194 Ben Murane Fri, 09 Feb 2007 16:46:11 +0000 http://jcarrot.org/the-need-and-desire-for-convenience/#comment-194 This is something I personally wrestle with all the time. I have a busy life of saving the world, i.e. volunteering everywhere under the sun and generally feel like that time is best spent. To cook all of my own meals, to take time to grow my own food, or to sit down and eat slowly (while laudable) seriously cut down on my ability to do what I enjoy. Yet, I also miss the dinners with my family I had as a child, which was time to eat, goof, and argue. Cooking is therapeutic, it's a break, it's a respite -- unless it's a cause of stress in it's own right as I rush out the door. My egg and cheese bagels eaten at my desk are a poor substitute for tea, Grapenuts, toast and a banana, but it's a sacrafice I make. (I make it mostly in order to get that extra 30 minutes of sleep.) This is something I personally wrestle with all the time. I have a busy life of saving the world, i.e. volunteering everywhere under the sun and generally feel like that time is best spent. To cook all of my own meals, to take time to grow my own food, or to sit down and eat slowly (while laudable) seriously cut down on my ability to do what I enjoy.

Yet, I also miss the dinners with my family I had as a child, which was time to eat, goof, and argue. Cooking is therapeutic, it’s a break, it’s a respite — unless it’s a cause of stress in it’s own right as I rush out the door.

My egg and cheese bagels eaten at my desk are a poor substitute for tea, Grapenuts, toast and a banana, but it’s a sacrafice I make. (I make it mostly in order to get that extra 30 minutes of sleep.)

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