The `THOUGHT`

I grew up from a tex-mex background and the most my family new about eating healthy or eating veggies was to take it out of a can and add butter or boil fresh broccoli and then put cheese and butter on it. Now maybe some of you are asking `what`s wrong with that? Broccoli and cheese is what I do too!`

Well unfortunately these cheesy buttery debuts were scarce and never twice in the same week. It`s bad enough that veggies were rare but the fact that when they did show up on our dinner table they were loaded with fat and then some more fat.

I bring this topic up because most American households don`t have the time to eat the 8-10 servings of fruits and veggetables. When the few that do try to eat a little healthy, they either lack the energy to be creative or they just don`t know where to start, and make lots of unhealthy mistakes.

Just looking around at the people in my life; I see so many of my friends and family members who are starting house holds of their own repeating the same habbits my family did when I was growing up. In fact many of them are taking the extra step and eating crazy harmful foods because it taste good and have absolutely no regard for health. You just can`t eat something like a hard boiled egg wrapped in sausage and hashbrowns then deep fried and covered in a pool of sausage gravy and think its ok.

Don`t get me wrong I am all about food for the soul, that is why I started this blog in the first place. But if it`s doing a lot of harm to your body then it can`t possibly be good for the soul. The example above and many like its kind (fried mac n` cheese bites) are a ticking time bomb for diebetes, high cholesteral, high blood pressure, or worse!

The truth is we as a generation have to start eating for health, not for weight, not for anyone else, not even for our own bad impulses or insecurities. We have to start loving ourselves by loving our bodies in the right way. Eating the nutrition you need on a regular basis is giving yourself the best present your body could ever ask for.

I support self pampering but before you do a soap sud bath or go out and get an aromatherapy massage give yourself something better. Give your body what it NEEDS before you do all the extra pampering. Give it the fuel it needs, a healthy nutritious diet.

When I decided to start this blog I didn`t do it just for myself. Even though I wanted to keep track of the recipes and ideas I`ve been learning along the way of my lifestyle realtering. I wanted others to have access to it as well so that it can help them along their process. Eating right and being healthy takes a lot of work and commitment. Unfortunately even if you do want to be healthy and eat right, it`s hard to decide where to even start. Therefore along with writing recipes I decided to include knowledge in the form of `Food for Thought` section of this blog.

Please take the time to read and evaluate your own self value and give feed back!

Enjoy!