Pondering Food

As with everything else, time has a way of getting away from me. I have not been faithful in writing on this blog and I truly intended to do that with the start of the new year.

I think part of it is that I have been so caught up in trying to figure out how I am going to eat that I’ve actually lost track of how I am going to eat.

A restaurant we go to occasionally for breakfast has a sign that says “To eat is a necessity, but to eat intelligently, is an art.” Yes it is and most often I do not eat intelligently. I am guilty of loving food, all food. Oh, I can think of a few things I do not like, but for the most part, I will eat anything. Now it comes to the time for me to learn to do it intelligently.

My dad has been in the hospital since Tuesday of last week, and it has given me great pause to think about how I view food as I know a lot of his problems stem from foods. I am my father’s daughter. Daddy, of course, is from the old school. He is still from that generation where you raised what you ate, you worked hard every day and burned off everything you ate, and nothing you ate was artificial or super processed. He has not realized that it is not that way any longer and now he is struggling, just like I am, with food, with diabetes out of control, feeling starved even though we are not. You get the picture.

I don’t know that I will have a specific way of eating, except to say that I will begin to not eat overly processed foods and do a better job at not doing it. I will include more raw foods in my diet, and constantly work to include more organics. I will work on my portion control (this is my biggie). I think that because I am eating something that is good for me I can eat as much as I want. Doesn’t work that way does it? I have become my top priority because I am too young to feel so old. That’s also the title of a book I just found…and am going to read.

Here’s some pictures of some of the food we have created lately. I say we because Ken has just as much a hand in the stuff I do as I do.

Enjoy