I look around at the wealth
of calories and titillating tastes available to us Americans. And I
look at the growing waistlines so many of us struggle with and I know
what we’re missing.
Sure we exercise. Sure we all try to eat more healthy.
But most of us have lost that very close relationship with our food where what we put in our mouths has been hard won with our sweat.
How Real Food Appreciation Changes Your Taste
When you work for something, everything tastes that much better.
And when we eat food with this deep enjoyment of what it’s providing us, how we eat changes.
Simple foods become gourmet. But even more importantly, we savor food for more than just its flavor or documented nutritional value. We feel how good it is to eat after all that work.
I swear your body uses the calories with care, extracting every bit of nutrition.
And in turn, when you eat food with this understanding each bite becomes magnified in its value. You don’t just chew and swallow. You really eat it fully and you feel a real satisfaction in just a few bites.
In contrast, when the full value of the food has been lost on us . . . we keep eating – never quite satisfied. Never really tasting the food fully and enjoying its total value.
We eat food with limited appreciation. And it doesn’t nourish us or fill us in the same way anymore.
So we eat and eat and eat. Our tastes no longer connect with the food in the same way. We get excited by new flavors but the deeper, richer nuances are lost on us. And that craving inside all of us to eat food with meaning never quiets.
Now, I’ll acknowledge – not everyone can live the farming life we live. And certainly my family’s life, in comparison to so many people worldwide, is filled with convenience and supermarket purchases.
Nonetheless there are some good places to start:
1. Cook your food.
This may seem basic. But it’s probably the easiest place to start. Stop buying convenience food and eating out so much. Instead start cooking more for yourself and your family. But don’t see this as an added burden. See it as a built-in break from the hyper-info-infused world we’re all living in.
Take the time to cook for yourself and you’ll change your relationship to what you eat. You’ll have taking one step closer to placing yourself in that tight cycle of work and nourishment. For all of you home business folks, you’re in a great situation to take full advantage of this.
2. Grow your food.
3. Appreciate food.
What do you think? Have you had some experiences that have helped you truly value food?
Sure we exercise. Sure we all try to eat more healthy.
But most of us have lost that very close relationship with our food where what we put in our mouths has been hard won with our sweat.
How Real Food Appreciation Changes Your Taste
When you work for something, everything tastes that much better.
And when we eat food with this deep enjoyment of what it’s providing us, how we eat changes.
Simple foods become gourmet. But even more importantly, we savor food for more than just its flavor or documented nutritional value. We feel how good it is to eat after all that work.
I swear your body uses the calories with care, extracting every bit of nutrition.
And in turn, when you eat food with this understanding each bite becomes magnified in its value. You don’t just chew and swallow. You really eat it fully and you feel a real satisfaction in just a few bites.
In contrast, when the full value of the food has been lost on us . . . we keep eating – never quite satisfied. Never really tasting the food fully and enjoying its total value.
We eat food with limited appreciation. And it doesn’t nourish us or fill us in the same way anymore.
So we eat and eat and eat. Our tastes no longer connect with the food in the same way. We get excited by new flavors but the deeper, richer nuances are lost on us. And that craving inside all of us to eat food with meaning never quiets.
Now, I’ll acknowledge – not everyone can live the farming life we live. And certainly my family’s life, in comparison to so many people worldwide, is filled with convenience and supermarket purchases.
Nonetheless there are some good places to start:
1. Cook your food.
This may seem basic. But it’s probably the easiest place to start. Stop buying convenience food and eating out so much. Instead start cooking more for yourself and your family. But don’t see this as an added burden. See it as a built-in break from the hyper-info-infused world we’re all living in.
Take the time to cook for yourself and you’ll change your relationship to what you eat. You’ll have taking one step closer to placing yourself in that tight cycle of work and nourishment. For all of you home business folks, you’re in a great situation to take full advantage of this.
2. Grow your food.
3. Appreciate food.
What do you think? Have you had some experiences that have helped you truly value food?
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