Food Freedom!

When I was a little girl, I would get so mad at my mom for calling me in for lunch when I had been happily playing outside. I saw lunch as an interruption to much more important things. I used to dream about making a food pill that I could just quickly eat and be immediately full and nourished. I still think this would be a great idea.

Can you imagine the time that would be saved if we never needed to eat? For one thing we wouldn’t have to waste all that time preparing food. Then, we wouldn’t have to sit down and eat, or multitask while we eat – such as drive, surf the web, or talk on the phone. Also, the arduous hassle of grocery shopping would be completely done away with. The overall advantages of this would be hours more of free time in our day!

Of course we would always have the option of eating if we wanted to. Let’s face it, some food is just good! There is also something to be said about sitting down with friends and family over good food. Food enhances those moments oddly enough.

My idea has been attempted by scientific people, but strangely it hasn’t gone over very well. People would just rather depend on scavenging around every few hours to stave off hunger pains than take a pill or a shot once or twice a day. However, we do see the effects of the scientific attempts in power bars, energy drinks, and even vitamins. The problem though is that with power bars you actually have to take the time to chew the whole thing up and they usually taste bad, energy drinks aren’t much better, and vitamins don’t make you feel full.

My hope is that in the near future I can be part of some human experiment with food pills to prove their success for humankind.