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２０２３年２月１９日 日曜日の朝は曇りで７度。本日は１９度まで気温が上がるそうですが雨も交じり春一番の気配も。昨日 洗濯物をたくさん乾かしてくれたお天道様はお預けの休日です。
昨日朝、近所のスーパーで以前から気になっていた産直野菜のザーサイを購入しました。ザーサイといえば瓶入りの加工品を思い出しますよね。桃〇の小さな小瓶に入ったあれを！
直売のコーナーに書いてあるレシピによれば茎はスライスしてサラダでも食べれるとの事。葉の部分は炒めても浅漬けにもと多様性があるので１００円ちょっとという事もあり挑戦してみました。
けっこうなボリュームです。結論を言うとコスパ最高です！先ほど食べた茎のスライスのサラダはマヨネーズをつけて食べたのですが癖がなくおいしかったですし、炒め物もGOODでした。浅漬けは苦みが嫌いでない方にはよいかと。ただし少し辛みが強めなので沢山は食べれないかもです。
早速ですが、今日の本題に移ります。食べ物がらみです～
嫌いな食べ物は食べなくてよい
何を今さら・・・好きなものは食べるけど嫌いなものを無理して食べませんよ。とおっしゃる大人に向けた言葉ではありません。
主に子供に向けた言葉です。
小さいころピーマンが嫌いとか、シイタケが食べれないとか身近な子供でありませんでしたか？自身の幼少期に幼稚園とか小学校の昼食の時・・・
先生が「全部食べるまでお昼休みにしませんよ」とか、親から「食べないなら今月のおこずかいは無しよ」とか、嫌いな食べ物を食べないのは絶対悪で好き嫌いをなくすのは教育上非常に重要であると洗礼を受けてきませんでしたか？
自分が子供の小さいころにそうしたことをしたかどうかはよく思い出せませんが。。もともとそんなに好き嫌いがなかったように記憶しています。一つだけ思い出すのは信州にいた子供が幼稚園のころ毎週のように週末パスタを作っていてそれが嫌だったのか食べないことがあったことは覚えております。
自分の小さいころを思い出すと牡蠣とかカキフライは食べるのですがおいしいと思ったことがなかったことはよく覚えております。
嫌いな食べ物は食べなくてよい
なぜこのような思いになったのかというと、わたくしの場合牡蠣は小さいころおいしくなかったのですが、大人になってから特に近年は牡蠣がおいしくて大好物になったからです。
本能的に おいしくないもの＝体に必要ないもの
ではないかと考えております。体に必要な栄養素が入ってないからおいしくない、食べたくないと本能が捉え、拒絶するのでは？逆も考えると
おいしいもの＝体が欲している栄養素
つまり体が欲している栄養素をとりたいがゆえに❝ おいしい ❞、❝ もっと食べたい ❞と感じて積極的に取り入れるのです。
わたくしの場合牡蠣がそれで、体が欲している栄養素がたくさん入っていることを本能が察知して❝ おいしい ❞、❝ もっと食べたい ❞と脳が信号を送り、その結果よく食べていると考えております。最近はチョコなどの甘いものも無性に食べたくなります。（このブログを執筆しながらチョコを食べてます 笑）
話を子供に戻すと、ピーマンやシイタケが嫌いな子供は体に必要な栄養素が入ってないからおいしくない、食べたくないと本能が捉え、拒絶しているのではないかという仮説が考えられます。
小さいころは食べなくても大人になって食べれるようになった食べ物って誰しもあるのではないでしょうか。わたくしの牡蠣の様に食べれてはいたのだがおいしいとは思わず、大人になっておいしい もっと食べたいとまで思う様になった食べ物ってみなさんありませんかね
以上を踏まえて子供に嫌いな食べ物を 教育という看板を背負って無理に食べさせるって大人にとっても子供にとってもストレスが増えるだけで無駄だという話でした。（あくまで個人的な見解です）
ザーサイの浅漬け（子供は食べるのかな？）
You don’t have to eat the food you don’t like – today’s polemic
February 19, 2023 Sunday morning was cloudy and 7 degrees. The temperature is supposed to rise to 19 degrees today, but there is a hint of the first day of spring mixed with rain. This is the day off to leave the sun, which dried a lot of laundry yesterday.
Yesterday morning, I went to the local supermarket and bought some Chinese pickles that I had been curious about. When I think of Chinese pickles, I am reminded of processed products in jars. You know, that one in the little Momo-0 jar!
According to the recipe written in the direct sales section, the stems can be sliced and eaten in salads. The leaves can be stir-fried or pickled, so I decided to give it a try since it was only 100 yen.
The volume is quite large. To sum it up, it is a great cospa! I had a salad of sliced stems with mayonnaise and it was delicious. The asazuke (lightly pickled vegetables) is good for those who do not mind bitterness. However, it is a little spicy, so you may not be able to eat a lot of it.
Let’s move on to today’s main topic. It’s all about food.
You don’t have to eat the food you don’t like.
What’s new…I eat what I like, but I don’t force myself to eat what I don’t like. These words are not for adults who say, “I’ll eat what I like, but I won’t force myself to eat what I don’t like.
These words are mainly directed to children.
When you were a child, were there any children around you who disliked green peppers or could not eat shiitake mushrooms? When I was a child in kindergarten or elementary school, during lunch time…
You were baptized by the teacher, “We won’t give you lunch until you eat all of your lunch,” or by your parents, “If you don’t eat it, you won’t get any money for this month,” and you were told that it was absolutely wrong not to eat foods you didn’t like and that it was very important for your education to eliminate likes and dislikes.
I can’t really remember if I did that when I was a small child. I remember that I never had that many likes and dislikes to begin with. One thing I remember is that my child in Shinshu made pasta every weekend when he was in kindergarten, and I don’t know if he disliked it or not.
When I think back to my childhood, I remember that I used to eat oysters and fried oysters, but I never thought they were delicious.
You don’t have to eat food you don’t like.
The reason why I had this thought is because, in my case, oysters did not taste good when I was little, but as an adult, especially in recent years, oysters have become delicious and my favorite food.
Instinctively, I think that what is not tasty = what is not necessary for the body.
I believe that if something does not taste good, it is not necessary for the body. I think that because oysters do not contain the nutrients necessary for the body, our instincts tell us that they do not taste good and that we do not want to eat them, and we reject them. The opposite is also true.
Tasty food = nutrients that the body needs.
In other words, we want to take in the nutrients that our body needs, which is why we feel “delicious” and “want to eat more” and actively take in the nutrients.
In my case, oysters are a case in point. My instincts sense that oysters contain a lot of nutrients that my body needs, and my brain sends signals to my body saying “delicious” and “I want to eat more,” and as a result, I eat a lot of oysters. This is why we eat so much. Recently, I have been craving chocolate and other sweet foods. (I am eating chocolate while writing this blog.)
Returning to children, we can hypothesize that children who dislike green peppers and shiitake mushrooms do not like them because they do not contain the nutrients their bodies need, and their instincts tell them that they do not want to eat them, and they reject them.
I think we all have foods that we didn’t eat when we were small but became able to eat as adults. Like my oysters, I used to be able to eat them, but I didn’t think they were tasty, and then as I grew older, I started to enjoy them and even wanted to eat them more.
Based on the abnormalities, I was saying that forcing children to eat foods they don’t like under the guise of “education” only increases stress for both adults and children and is a waste of time. (This is just my personal opinion.)
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