Physical Intelligence - Day 57

There is one area that I limited control over and that is our weekly groceries and what gets made in our kitchen for the family.  The benefits of living communally do outweigh the benefits of living alone, but the benefit of being alone is that shopping and cooking is for that personal alone.  This communal disadvantage only came to play when I started asking questions about the fitness quality of of our weekly purchases.

I only have anecdotal evidence to how much process food we purchase as a family in comparison to the percentage of processed foods.  Nor do I have a handle on how much natural food vs. processed food is actually consumed.   By asking this simple question it opens up the box of culture change.  For me to assert what we should buy and what we should cook actually will evoke a culture change - one that cannot be made if the initiative of physical intelligence ends up being a temporary abstraction in a happy-go-lucky kind of life.

Moreover I am not sure of the fundamental science or practicality of changing our shopping and cooking culture and with many kids in our home and very strong women with integral will, this is not something that I can afford to chop and change.  There is no experimentation factor when it comes to what essentially is and has always been a communal culture.

What I can do today is explore how others have dealt with the grocery and fitness question without at this point venture into a more politically domestic space of who has power over cooking and kitchen decisions.  At the societal level the idea of a community kitchen is a regular social practice in my community, but a communal kitchen is a more unique thing that other families in our particular community do not practice - and would be viewed as different.

While individual purchasing is not a part of the tribe I am a part of, it is interesting to explore how individuals engage shopping with fitness in mind. This is apparently how one bodybuilder shops and in this video he explains his shopping habits :