Slow Food Tips

I had a great time with the ladies who attended class last week. We had a lot of great discussion on what we can do to improve our relationships with food. To summarize, here are 8 tips:

1. Grow/raise your own food.
2. Buy your groceries from a farmer.
3. Spend more on food and less on health care.
4. Get your household involved in meal preparation.
5. Take longer to eat less.
6. Talk between bites.
7. Pay attention to when you are no longer hungry and don't wait until you feel full.
8. Most importantly cook from scratch, no matter what you make, you will be better off than heating up premade food.  Cooking from scratch repairs the broken relationship we have with food.  If you start with whole foods, all you have to think about is preparing them into a meal, not if they are healthy or not.  No guilt.

Michael Pollan said it best in his book In Defense of Food “In order to eat well we need to invest more time, effort and resources in providing for our sustenance, to dust off a word, than most of us do today.”

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