Food: America vs. Australia

You don’t really realize how bad certain aspects in life are if you've grown up with them.  The aspect I’m referring to is food.  Don’t get me wrong I love food back home, all kinds of it. The fact of the matter is that our food just can’t even compare to Australian food.  

American bread

Australian bread

Bread, for example. My boyfriend always said that America’s bread is so sweet.  Now that I've been eating more Australian bread, I can tell the difference.  And if you look at the ingredients in an Australian loaf of bread, you can pronounce all the ingredients and count them on your two hands.  America is a whole different story.

I’m not perfectly healthy but most of us Americans don’t even know what all of those extra additives do in the bread.  It’s just crazy, but that’s the bread I grew up on.

Another general thing that’s different is just the lack of stomach aches I get over here.  In America, you were bound to eat something almost every other day that would upset your stomach.  In Australia, even the pizza that I've had doesn't bother me.

The cheapest eggs I
could buy in AU...
the same as our farm
fresh eggs back home.

You can tell though that all of the food over here just tastes so fresh.  If you buy a prepackaged sandwich at the servo, the tomatoes are still firm, the lettuce is still crunchy.  I couldn't tell you how many times I bought a sandwich in the store at home that had wilted, brown lettuce and soggy bread.  I was walking home from a run on the beach this morning and actually stumbled upon a Farmer's Market...on a Thursday morning.  Everything looked so good; I just wish I had brought my wallet.

I think when I actually go back to the U.S. I am going to be very disappointed with the food options available.  Either that or I'd have to pay twice as much just for some of the better food. Eating while you're out, however, is almost a definite nutritional-letdown.