{"id":2408,"date":"2016-11-19T23:44:52","date_gmt":"2016-11-19T23:44:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/?p=2408"},"modified":"2016-11-19T23:45:14","modified_gmt":"2016-11-19T23:45:14","slug":"diet-hopes-day-8-barrier-3-dealing-with-tedium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/diet-hopes-day-8-barrier-3-dealing-with-tedium\/","title":{"rendered":"Diet Hopes Day 8, Barrier #3: Dealing with Tedium"},"content":{"rendered":"

Smoothing Out the Aggravation Bumps on the Road to Good Eating Success<\/h3>\n

The last post <\/a>explained that key to making our diet dreams come true is planning so success if inevitable.\u00a0 In turn, the most critical part of inevitability planning is slowing down and adjusting your time frame to accommodate planning and preparation time.\u00a0 For me, this meant postponing my almond milk hopes by a week<\/p>\n

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Prepared for Milk-Making–plenty of almonds and dates, blender ready to go,\u00a0 sieve is handy.<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Now I’m back, a week later, fully prepared for milk making.\u00a0 I got plenty of dates and almonds at the store. I’ve chosen a night when I have time for tinkering.\u00a0 The almonds have soaked all day.\u00a0\u00a0 Haven’t gotten the nut milk bag yet, but I’m ok with using my regular sieve.\u00a0 I’m set to run my nut-milk experiment.<\/p>\n

As predicted, I was able to pull it off this time.\u00a0 So what’s the problem, now?\u00a0 Tedium!\u00a0 The process was so clunky and time consuming that couldn’t imagine doing it on a regular basis.<\/p>\n

You may recognize that tedious feeling from times when you finally got around to making a new dish.\u00a0 Sure, you might have gotten it on the table–but you don’t want to cook again for another month!<\/p>\n

Food preparation can indeed feel tedious when it doesn’t flow smoothly.\u00a0 Instead, it feels like you’re being jerked between stove, sink, instructions and cupboards, all the while dirtying a lot of dishes and not feeling confident or in control.\u00a0 This is often why we get stuck in a 5-Recipe Rut<\/a> keep making the same things over and over–because we’ve got the process down so it unfolds smoothly and we can cook with some comfort and confidence.<\/p>\n

So Barrier #3 on the road to achieving our eating goals is simple tedium.\u00a0 If I wanted milk-making to become a regular part of my food life, I needed to find a way to eliminate the tedium by smoothing out the process.\u00a0 For instance:<\/p>\n