Hw 4 Your Families Foodways

          The food that my mom has grown up eating is somewhat similar to the foods that I eat now. This is probably because my mom ate many of the foods when she was little so much that she just lost interest in them and they weren't passed onto me, or I may have just not liked them. For me I actually noticed that I don't eat most of the foods that my family eats. This is probably because I know the health risks associated with them, or they just don't appeal to me.

           My mom approaches food a little different than I do because she is a lot older than me so she has to watch what she eats because her metabolism isn't what it used to be when she was younger. She now eats a lot of weight watchers products to help her manage her diet. She shops at whole food stores and buys many of their fruits, bagels, and pizzas. She doesn't really encourage me to eat healthy like her since she thinks I'm still young and can eat whatever I want. Although this is partially true I can still put myself at risk for diseases, which would be bad.
           The way I approach food is a little different than my mom because although we both don't include soda into our diets, even though we think it tastes good we are aware what they put into it and what it does to our skin. I eat a lot more fried and baked food than my mom. Although she puts more toppings onto her food I don't because I feel as though it's not necessary.
           The food ways of my grandparents (the people who raised my mom) are very different than the food ways of my mom. When my mom was little she ate a lot of things like raviolis, bread, white rice and butter, turkey, chicken, collard greens, and meatloaf. Many of these things she finds impossible to eat now because she ate it so much when she was a kid. Now she has completely taken raviolis, white rice and butter, and meatloaf out of her diet. What I noticed was in our family if you were fed to much of one thing, you would develop a grudge for it and the chances of your kids eating those foods is cut drastically.
        Even though the food types have changed slightly over time the real difference is how much of it was being served. My mom grew up with five other siblings eating dinner with them, and the same applies to grandparents where the number of siblings was seven. Since there always seemed to be a lot of mouths to feed and since we weren't rich, you basically had to eat what you got.