Is it possible to eat healthy, affordably (under $10) and the food still taste great? I say, emphatically, “YES!” While I advocate cooking and eating at home, if you’re meeting friends, coworkers, and/or time is short, choose a place that doesn’t empty your wallet, stagnate your belly, raise your blood pressure or spike your blood sugar. Send me your suggestions and if it meets the criteria of fresh, tasty, and maybe some organic choices, I’ll add it to my TOP 10 – 15 Uber Fresh & Healthy in Austin. 

East Side Cafe

Casa de Luz   

Mother’s Cafe

Blue Dahlia Cafe

Koriente

Food4Fitness Cafe

Baby Greens

Wheatsville Coop

Terra Burger

Zen Japanese Fast Food

Whole Foods Salad Bar

Bouldin Creek Cafe

mildly annoying that so much of the national debate around health care reform focuses on drugs, life saving technologies, end of life care, death panels, vaccinations, the budget, choice of doctors? The aura of fear and mistrust is so palpable, you’d think we’re losing our right to breathe! I just read Michael Pollan’s article in the NY Times several days ago and so appreciate his take on how and why we’re completely missing the point and why we’ll continue, as a nation, to focus on everything but the obvious (paying lip service to “prevention”).

Let me know what you think of Pollan’s article and share your ideas about what you and I can do personally to change our consciousness about what health care actually is. Is it too late? Are we too sick? Too busy? Too disenchanted?