{"id":1677,"date":"2013-04-14T21:20:50","date_gmt":"2013-04-14T21:20:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/?p=1677"},"modified":"2013-04-14T21:20:50","modified_gmt":"2013-04-14T21:20:50","slug":"eating-well-without-trying-so-hard-or-worrying-so-much","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/eating-well-without-trying-so-hard-or-worrying-so-much\/","title":{"rendered":"Eating Well&#8211;Without Trying So Hard or Worrying So Much"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color:#414141;\"><strong>&#8220;Healthy eating:&#8221;\u00a0 Two words with the power to spark enormous stress.\u00a0<\/strong> <\/span>Those two words can easily send our minds swirling with confusion&#8211;and likely as not, a good measure of guilt as well.\u00a0 &#8220;Am I doing enough?\u00a0 Am I eating too many carbs?\u00a0 Should I be juicing more?\u00a0 Are eggs on the good list or bad?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#414141;\"><strong>Suspended Judgment:\u00a0 There&#8217;s a secret for happy and healthful eating<\/strong><\/span>, but can you first even imagine that eating well is a lot easier than you think?\u00a0 Could you believe that it doesn&#8217;t have to be really hard, guilt-laden or worrisome?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 297px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"  \" alt=\"Autumn Bounty\" src=\"http:\/\/i722.photobucket.com\/albums\/ww230\/mcolletterogers\/FallVeggiesEggplantTomatoes2.jpg\" width=\"307\" height=\"230\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Seasonal Bounty. Limiting our produce choices to what&#8217;s in season has the curious consequence of making it easier to cook meals that are healthy and delicious.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"color:#414141;\"><strong>Seasonal Eating:\u00a0 The key to eating well, happily and easily<\/strong><\/span>, without worry or guilt.\u00a0 Let me make the case, beginning with a definition of &#8220;seasonal eating.&#8221;\u00a0 Seasonal eating is really place-based eating, i.e., for the place where you find yourself, eating what the earth provides, when the earth provides it, in the amounts provided by the earth.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Place&#8221; is a critical to seasonal eating<\/strong>.\u00a0 The term is otherwise meaningless since at any one point in time, a produce item is &#8220;in season&#8221; somewhere in the world and can be found in the produce aisle of your local grocery store.\u00a0 Only when eating is tied to place do we reap the many benefits of a true seasonal approach.\u00a0 In an interesting paradox, it is the limiting aspects of place-based eating that are the source of its many advantages.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Eating Well\u2013Without Trying So Hard or Worrying So Much (part\u00a02)\" href=\"http:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/2013\/04\/14\/eating-well-without-trying-so-hard-or-worrying-so-much-part-2\/\">Read on to discover the many benefits&#8211;health and otherwise&#8211;of seasonal eating<\/a>. . . .\u00a0 I&#8217;ve discovered at least a dozen.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, if you&#8217;re ready to start the seasonal eating journey, join us for one of our <a title=\"Seasonal Meal Making Classes\" href=\"http:\/\/everydaygoodeating.org\/index.html\">Healthy, Seasonal Meal Making Classes<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How can limiting our choices actually make it easier to eat healthfully?  <\/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":[11,9,13,23,1],"tags":[284,330,514,515],"class_list":["post-1677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-what-is-healthy-eating","category-green-kitchen","category-local-and-sustainable-eating","category-seasonal-eating","category-uncategorized","tag-healthy-eating","tag-imagination-and-healthy-eating","tag-seasonal-cooking","tag-seasonal-eating","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\/1677","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=1677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1677\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}