No Time To Cook

'It’s too much trouble or I have no time to make a meal when I get home'…I have mentioned this topic quite a few times on here and it never gets old – because I still keep hearing it! LOL This is quite an interesting saying actually and surely must have been inserted into the brains of modern thinking fairly recently.

But the sad fact of this situation is that there is always time – you have to take the time, make the time, it’s for your health. Besides, how many people have times themselves – driving to the shop, selecting some ‘food’ (I say this loosely these days) waiting in line to pay and then driving home to – heat it up, cook it, or whatever?

I wonder if it might take far less time to go home – cook some brown Basmati rice, while that cooks – chop a stir fry of onion, leek, garlic, grated carrot (add turmeric, cumin if desired) – sauté in a little olive oil. In the meantime, place ½ cup of lentils to cook….

Once everything is cooked – add them all together in a large deep bowl and gently toss for a minute. You can add a little more olive oil here and season with some salt and pepper.

All of this should take less then 20 minutes or so. If you make extra, you can take some for lunch the next day or for the next day’s dinner. If you want a little more protein or a different taste add some olives at the end of cooking, a tin of tuna or salmon or anything else. If you like something a little more exotic, add a couple tablespoons of coconut cream or coconut milk.

Really the combinations are endless – and each time you will have a different tasting meal. Change the lentils to red, brown, green, Puy – try one of the many kinds of rice (white, red, black, wild, aged, Jasmine, sushi rice), and there are endless vegetables to put into a stir-fry.

The bottom line here – is this is so easy. Eating well, making your own meals (for far cheaper) and staying on a healthy track is doable – perhaps you just have to believe it. 

April

Dangers of Processed Foods

Not many people make the effort anymore to ensure that they have wholesome foods to eat - from my own experience this is not something that originated with our generation (although we are the ones paying the price) but appears to have come about after the last great war as a modern solution to slavery.

Perhaps in an effort to make things easier for more people to be out working for little wages, following someone else's blueprint of reality, an overall vision of creating a new world paradigm could be easily inserted over the old one. With everyone consumed with obtaining all the things that they did not need and that were placed just out of reach, there was little time left over to cook.

With no thought, planning and preparation going into making wholesome meals for the entire family - it is relatively easy to convince people of something so counterintuitive that it is mind boggling. A dry powered, dehydrated, factory made, highly altered substance contains all the vitamins and minerals that you could possibly need. 

And for the most part, we believed it!

Balanced meals in a box. How on earth have we come to think we could eat this stuff (all the time) and maintain any form of gut integrity? However, the most important point to be made here is that a non functioning gut means a non functioning body.

All systems go down when food does not contain the required vitamins and nutrients to sustain body processes.

This is pretty serious stuff - yet, when we go into any supermarket, the shelves are lined off with 'food' prepared and ready to eat or cook (just add some toxic tap water) and stir. During the last few years even more prepared foods are hitting the market, with the certain aim to replace any time that you might need to spend in your kitchen.

When you do a little research - it doesn't take much - links can be found between processed food items and a host of modern dysfunctions from diabetes and cancer to depression and hormone imbalance. What is worse is many of these 'diseases' are being treated with some of the most toxic chemicals on the planet.

Distinctions are also made between; 

processed foods (put through chemical processes with added stabilizers and preservatives e.g. low fat yogurt, sugary cereals) 

junk foods (contain little real food usually made from white flour, sugar and corn syrup e.g. drive through foods and fizzy drinks)  

fake foods (contain no real food, primarily made of fillers, gums, sugars e.g. salad dressings, dehydrated soups).

All of this can be reversed in a short period of time when a little energy and effort is put into using real ingredients such as vegetables and fruit, whole unprocessed beans, lentils, grains, locally sourced fish or meat and clean water. 

Feeding yourself well is worth the effort - for your mind, body and spirit. 

Have a lovely day,

April

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