{"id":1664,"date":"2013-04-14T20:32:34","date_gmt":"2013-04-14T20:32:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/?p=1664"},"modified":"2013-04-14T20:32:34","modified_gmt":"2013-04-14T20:32:34","slug":"eating-well-without-trying-so-hard-or-worrying-so-much-part-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/eating-well-without-trying-so-hard-or-worrying-so-much-part-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Eating Well–Without Trying So Hard or Worrying So Much (part 3)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Making the Leap<\/span><\/h3>\n

Resisting Peer Pressure\u00a0<\/strong> <\/span>If seasonal, place-based eating yields so many helpful benefits, why do we tolerate the many downsides of the global food system?\u00a0 In a nutshell, most of us don’t really decide what we eat.\u00a0 Food marketers largely decide what our hand reaches for at the grocery store.\u00a0 So if this is your year to begin joining the wonderful convergence of good that comes with seasonal eating, begin by re-gaining the decision-making power over your food choices.\u00a0 It often takes eating in a way that others view as strange and weird. So get comfortable making food choices free of the peer pressure generated by food marketing experts.<\/p>\n

Start a Learning Adventure\u00a0<\/span> <\/strong>If seasonal eating doesn’t generate immediate interest, it’s often because we have such a limited repertoire of meal ideas.\u00a0 When spinach comes into season, for example, we eat it steamed with lemon juice every other day!\u00a0 Actually, there are so many things that can be done with each vegetable besides piling it on the side of the plate.\u00a0 So many flavor partners, produce companions, entrees to be brightened with their colors!\u00a0 If you have trouble imagining spinach 15 different ways, then join one of our Whole Kitchen seasonal meal making classes <\/a>and begin developing the valuable skill of weaving produce into meals every which way.<\/p>\n

Enjoy a Non-Seasonal Food Budget<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0 Seasonal eating is a choice we get to make.\u00a0 Unlike our ancestors, we\u00a0 don’t have to go hungry when the food landscape is barren, and no one is watching that you buy only seasonal at the grocery store.\u00a0 Over the years, I’ve developed a “budget approach,” happily enjoying things like citrus, ginger, chocolate (of course), olive oil, fish sauce and so on, but being mindful to limit reliance on long-haul items to a dozen or so at a time.<\/p>\n

\"Strawberries
“Absence makes the heart grow fonder,” a sentiment that applies as readily to produce as the human heart. With no fresh strawberries in Colorado after September, imagine how extraordinarily gorgeous they look and taste when they reappear in June–a surprise that is lost in the global marketplace where strawberries are available anytime, any place.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

There’s a way that good eating can be a natural, easeful part of our lives.\u00a0 Can you believe that making and enjoying healthful meals can be just another part of life, no more or less issue-laden than going through our morning and evening routines, getting to work, finding time to meet with friends, getting to appointments and so on.<\/p>\n

Ready to begin transitioning to this kind of eating?\u00a0 Ready to make the joyful discovery that less is more:\u00a0 less in the way of selections actually brings more interesting variety and nutritional depth to mealtimes.\u00a0 Come join one of our classes<\/a> and start the journey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ready to make the joyful discovery that less is more: less in the way of selections actually brings more interesting variety and nutritional depth to mealtimes. Find out how to start. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9,23,1],"tags":[190,265,266,470,514,515,653],"class_list":["post-1664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-green-kitchen","category-seasonal-eating","category-uncategorized","tag-environmental-cooking","tag-green-cooking","tag-green-kitchen","tag-reasons-to-eat-seasonally","tag-seasonal-cooking","tag-seasonal-eating","tag-why-eat-seasonally","masonry-post","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-50"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1664\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}