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First Aired - 01/17/2012 06:30PM
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This week on Let's Get Real host Erica Wides dissects the mythology behind vegetarian/veganism and the people, like Oprah, who say that it is a "greener" and healthier living style. It's time to break down the barriers behind the vegan-foodiness paradox: we like meat but we don't want to eat it so we eat food that is so heavily processed to taste like meat it ends up being just as bad. So tune in and wake up as to how you can still be healthy and avoid this foodiness rabbithole that our decadent, choice-indulged society has created--it just may take a little extra work. This episode is sponsored by The Hearst Ranch.
"It's a processed experience . . vegan foodiness is like methadone. . it approximates the heroin or meat eating experience but it does not fulfill . . .so you keep going back."
--Erica Wides on Let's Get Real
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Let's Get Real: Vegan Foodie Paradox (23:37)
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Let's Get Real, Erica Wides, Fairway Market, veggie burgers, vegetarians, vegans, being green, what is a vegan, foodiness, Oprah, baconless bacon, industrially processed foods, Kool Aid, Michael Pollan, kale, cook your own food, eat real food, garden burgers, food scientists, industrial agricultural, tofu hotdogs, flavorists, foodiness firewall,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 01/24/2012 06:30PM
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This week on Let's Get Real it's time to take the replacement out of meal replacements. From purees to shakes to powders we are assaulted every day by the promise of easy and convenient 'food' from Special K bars to Pediasure for kids. Tune in to find out what you're really ingesting with those body building mixes (answer: it's a lot of lead) and single serving Trader Joe's meals and learn the simple things you can do to pull yourself out of this rabbit-whole of whole-meal replacement. This episode is sponsored by S. Wallace Edwards & Sons.
"The idea that people use meal replacement powders and shakes for nutrition . . . it's ridiculous! Food is nutrition."
--Erica Wides on Let's Get Real
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Let's Get Real: Replacement Meals (16:49)
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Let's Get Real, Erica Wides, oral surgery, wisdom teeth, swelling, Jimminiy Glick, instant pudding, puree chile, foodiness, dyed green almonds, meal replacement, semantics, Pediasure, kids foodiness, Stroke, hospitals, pre-thickened milk, Nobu, hospital food,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 09/27/2011 06:30PM
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This week Let's Get Real goes ripe for seasonality as Chef Erica Wides expounds on the disillusionment that foodiness has created: that seasonal items like strawberries are good and available all year round. Fighting this notion of faux-seasonality Erica will guide you to making smarter choices that that you don't need to be an elite Brooklyn foodie to follow that allows you to fight foodiness at the same price for fast food. As the seasons change maybe it's a good time to think about doing the same with your eating habits, so Let's Get Real. This episode is sponsored by Whole Foods Market.
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Faux Seasonality (34:47)
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Let's Get Real, Erica Wides, Michelle Bachmann, seasonality, produce, fruits and vegetables, Bible, the ripeness of fruit, foodiness, Wall-E, diabeatus, processed corn, processed meat, year-round seasonality, faux-seasonality, New York Times, Mark Bittman, fast food, fast food is cheaper, fast food is easy, people can't cook, ripe peaches, strawberry flavor, cousins, food deserts, suburbs, not knowing how to cook, fluke, Montauk, protein, roasting vegetables, collander, foodie, Brooklyn, elitism, Roberta's, food practicality, food fascist, apple season, pear season, Thanksgiving, turkeys, strawberries, seasons for dummies, raised on foodiness, fake farmer's market, farmer's markets, asparagus, eating with the seasons,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
