Does it feel like you’re suffering around meals and eating?
This question only comes up because one of my marketing gurus advised that we identify how and what our audiences might be suffering.
Over my many years in the kitchen, I’ve felt a lot of things about meal making, the kitchen and eating. But I wouldn’t have identified “suffering” as one of those feelings.
- I’ve felt overwhelmed by the enormity of making wholesome, vegetable-rich meals day in and day out.
- I’ve felt frustrated that it takes so much time to make meals that keep me healthy.
- I’ve felt angry that our food world makes it so hard to feed myself well.
- I’ve even felt embarrassed about spending so much time in the kitchen.
But I would never have thought of myself as “suffering.” Upon reflection, however, I had to admit that all these feelings are really a form of suffering, a term that encompasses “feeling distressed” or “experiencing something unpleasant.”
Hence my question for you:
Does it feel like you might be suffering around meal making, meals and eating? Even if you never thought of it in that way?
I’m thinking some kind of suffering is going on when I think about all the comments I’ve heard over the years when the topic of food and meal making come up.
- Maybe your meals are missing the mark despite your time and efforts, e.g., they are boring, blah, don’t meet your health needs, or just don’t taste that good.
- Maybe meal making feels stressful, intimidating, overly time-consuming or frustrating.
- Maybe eating well is confusing, feels really expensive or seems beyond your ability.
- Maybe you just don’t feel capable or comfortable in the kitchen
- Maybe it feels like your kitchen is out to sabotage you!
If you’re experiencing any one (or more!) of these feelings, then maybe you actually are suffering?
In that case, my marketing guru next advises that I offer a solution!!
Of course that solution is Meal Making Transformation, which is the integrated approach I discovered over many years. This approach greatly tamped down and even removed meal making suffering for me, so I can now readily make and enjoy meals that keep me healthy and happy.
The last newsletter shared my short booklet describing how I discovered and pieced together the Meal Making Transformation solution. If you missed it last month can I encourage you to read or listen to it now. I’m pretty sure it will be helpful and get you started on your own “transformative” journey to a happy land beyond meal time suffering.
In a nutshell, Meal Making Transformation is a simple 2-part solution:
- First, be new and transform how you go about making meals
- Second, enjoy eating meals that both satisfy and nourish
See how it’s entirely possible to replace feelings of defeat, disappointment and suffering with feelings of comfort and ease making meals that you love and that love you back.
