I feel as though to properly set up this blog, I must delve a bit into my history. We all make a bad choice or two in high school. Mine was to stop eating. However, God is smart, and gracious, and He taught me how to eat again. The irony of all this, I find, is that I am one of the 40% of those who develop an eating disorder to fully recover. Imagine—an ex-anorexic becoming a foodie!
Even the hideous disease that it is, there are lessons to be learned everywhere. Things Anorexia taught me:
Enjoy every bite. Back then, they were far in few between. Now days, I take quite a lot more bites! I pick and choose wisely. Like someone who has seen famine, I have learned to appreciate food. It is a gift.
Yet this, too, we have abused. For far too many, food does not bring enjoyment. Rather, it is a captor. It tempts its delicacies, taunting all those who call it their master. It has many officers which it enlists to capture its prey. The scale. The gym. Magazines. Numbers. Calories. Diets. A never-ending cycle of starve-eat-exercise-hate-compare-numbers, number, and more numbers. For these, food has become an enemy.

There are more abuses to be found in this culture of food. Mostly here in America, but now spreading to cultures and countries across the globe. Food is becoming extinct. “Food” now consists, in great amount, of chemicals and concoctions mixed in laboratories. For some reason we’ve made incorrect conclusions about the pure, wholesome food God provided us, and concocted “fixes” and “antidotes” to the inabilities of real food. We feed animals what they were never created to eat, so that we have more abundance (and cheaper) meat. And because of this, we are doing exactly what we set out to do—eating great abundances of cheap meat. Great. I don’t know enough about the plight of our food productions in America to try and set up a pursasive argument for organic food. Instead, I learn what I can when I can. I choose to be an acknowledged consumer so that I can be assured that what my family and I are eating is nutritious and beneficial. Empty calories are just that—empty. Who needs green, Shrek-themed ketchup for their French fries, anyhow?
My Men who I love and feed with all my heart! |
There is a great balance to life. Our time, our energy, our money, our passions, our interests, our jobs, all of these require a great balance. So does our health. I have much to learn, this blog is my attempt to better do just that. To learn about food and how to bless my family with it, and to do so by pursuing my passions of cooking, baking, and nutrition.