Food for thought

I cannot understand why people do not eat well. I know people who would be happy to eat instant noodles every single day for the rest of their life, and I ask myself "Is that life?". I mean it echoes my sentiments about not trying to live a happy life, being depressed all your life is like eating nothing but Smith's BBQ chips. Sure it may be easy, and in the very very short term rewarding but if you keep it up your going to get fat and unhappy again.

Does this dog look happy to you?

The big difference is enjoying food vs enjoying eating. Enjoying food is fine, enjoying the most delicious combinations possible with the perfect blend of spices, what could be better? The problem is people who just enjoy eating. The people who would buy and consuming absolute crap simply because they could, it just boggles the mind.

Eating good food helps so much in everyday life. Just going to the effort to make something extra delicious may take you an extra half an hour compared to the two minutes to heat up noodles, but the time you make up from being that little bit more happy pays off. We all know what it's like, when your depressed work drags, you find things distract you easily and stuff just doesn't get done. That extra time spent making good food pays off in how efficient you spend your time.

Plus the best bonus you get from this is impressing friends and guests. The look on people's faces as they taste your well honed skills evident in your mushroom risotto is worth it, believe me. Girlfriends or boyfriends will fawn all over you just that little bit more.

So what I'm basically saying is take that little bit more time in your life to make your own food. Start small working with bits and pieces that are premade (like pasta sauce) and then start to experiment with adding things. Look into what makes up your favourite sauces, you'd be very surprised at how easy stroganoff and carbonara is for one. Work your way up to making your own sauces, understanding spice and cooking times! It's one of the most basic rewards you can give yourself =)

- Fae

(Edit: I just spent waaaaaay too long trying to understand the coding for the Blogger template, but regardless I have a new layout. This new background / colour scheme is based on my identity mood board I made a couple of weeks ago. Hope you all like it ^^)