Omelets are among my favorite secret weapons when I'm on the road. The trickiest part of that is finding a place that serves them and, once having found such a place, hoping their ingredients are at least marginally fresh.
They probably aren't, unless you're in some cozy bed and breakfast where the family that runs the place raises their own chickens and grows their own veggies. That not usually being the case, I usually settle for a garden omelet anyway, with hash browns and coffee. Eating only those things would surely kill me after a while, but under the circumstances I look at that combination as the lesser of many evils.
In the grocery store: There is often a small section for locally grown produce. The stuff you'll find there is usually smaller, less vibrant looking and possibly more expensive than the mass-market stuff, but consider this:
Industry seeks to profit, not to nourish.
The vegetables are engineered to be exactly the colors that they are because it has been determined that people prefer a certain shade of green (for example) over another.
The color, shape and size of the vegetable are basically irrelevant as a nutrition gauge by the time the industry is done tampering with them.
If local, fresh-grown peppers are a perfect shade of shiny green, it's because they're supposed to be; they're healthy and ripe. On the other hand, if mass-produced peppers are a perfect shade of shiny green, it's because they've been treated with chemicals, coated with preservatives, wax, pesticides and whatever else in order to make them look that way.
Consider that next time you have a chance to buy a pepper for its beauty, or in order to save a nickle, rather than for the yummy goodness a real pepper has to offer.
I eat green peppers like apples. They're delicious!
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