Becoming an EGO???

For the past couple of weeks I have been eating what some call "Clean eating."  I made my own soups and salads, breakfast, lunch, and dinner, the whole shabang!  When I sit down to eat, I have been trying to eliminate ALL distractions, and just enjoy the food, and the company.  Yesterday I had my husband pick up food from my favorite Chinese place the Royal Express.  I was so excited to sit down and eat it, and as I took my first bite, I was strangely...not satisfied.  No longer was it as delicious as I remember.  I didn't enjoy it...I DIDN'T ENJOY IT?!?!

This hasn't been the first time lately that this has happened either.  We picked up a hamburger the other day on the run, and the food tasted...fake.  Another wings place that has recently become popular... was nothing but processed chicken (maybe not even real chicken??) and overpowering sauce.  Besides that, there were hardly any vegetable dishes to be seen, or other options.  It really did live up to it's motto but they didn't have much more than that.

So as I sat there not enjoying my favorite foods, I thought to myself, what is happening to me?

I have come to the conclusion that I am becoming an Anton, "I don't like food, I LOVE IT!"  As I look around and see all the places that I have eaten food, I think to myself, what are we as Americans doing to ourselves?  We eat food that doesn't satisfy us, that is too much quantity for our stomachs, and that isn't even real food half of the time (aka poor quality!!!).

Can you think of it?  I think you will know what I am talking about when you have my best friends homemade pizza.  You will never want to have a 5 dollar pizza again!

Tell me, have you had this experience before?  Have you noticed a difference with your eating out experience after eating home cooking for a while?  Or have you had a time where all you could do is eat out, and you got really tired of it?

The one difference between him and me is "If I don't love it, I don't swallow."  That might take me a while...