Healthy City, Healthy Office?

Scotty mentioned that article which declared Seattle to be the healthiest city in the US. I hope that’s true, but who really knows?

Here in the office at Allrecipes, we definitely have a focus on healthy eating. At lunchtime, as people drift into the kitchen to prepare their meals, I see lots of vegetables coming out of those brown bags in the fridge. If someone has leftovers, it’s from a healthy, lowfat meal. Our Dev Maven had butternut squash couscous the other day, and it looked really good! Our Tech Man makes his sandwiches on wholegrain bread, no mayo, and always piles on layers of fresh spinach. I’m committed to eating low fat, and having lots of whole grains in my meals. Today’s lunch was a leftover sauté with onions, garlic, fresh spinach, brown basmati rice and chicken, seasoned with curry, topped with nonfat yogurt.

It seems that snacks around here are either fruit, or someone fires up the popcorn machine. Is it that we’re trying to practice what we preach? Perhaps. With what we do, we’re certainly aware of what a healthy diet can do for you, and what an unhealthy diet will do to you.

Of course, like any other office, if someone brings in ‘bad’ food, to get it out of their house, it does disappear very quickly. I guess that’s just the “If it’s free, it doesn’t count” principle, right?