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Healthy Eating Starts Here

When you were a kid, did you like vegetables? Or were you like most kids who just pushed them around your plate? Did your pet get more of those nutrients than you?

In the last year, I have gone from disliking (like, really disliking) to loving the following: kale, parsley, mushrooms, olives, and pickles. You may be a new vegan or vegetarian, just wondering what it's all about and starting to come across the plethora of reasons to decrease your animal consumption. Or perhaps you're a seasoned veteran, just looking for a new recipe or some new health info.

The reason I now love the above foods is because I have been experimenting with them for the last couple of years, and had to learn how to make them work. Simple things like massaging kale with sea salt, marinating mushrooms for a few hours, and making my own pickles were all I needed to unleash the deliciousness of these foods.

So, I just finished the monster 800-page book Staying Healthy With Nutrition by Elson Haas, and I thought it was a great time to tell you about how nutrition plays into my cooking style. Nothing brings me greater joy than to serve a dish, have someone rave about how wonderful it is, and then get to say that it is actually a healthy vegan recipe.

There is no need to choose health over taste. Sure, there are certain things that I just don't do anymore, like donuts, but I have to say that anymore, the thought of sugar and fat deep fried in hydrogenated oil is not so appealing.

Preparing a meal for yourself is a very fundamental way to love yourself. Preparing a meal for you and a loved one is a way to share your love and respect for that person.

Okay, I'm being sarcastic - you won't find that many smoothie recipes here.

Green smoothies are all the rage right now, and I have one every day, but do we really need all of these new recipe books with hundreds of smoothie recipes? For those of you who make them often, don't you end up making the same kind of thing every day, with simple substitutions of various greens and fruit?

I find myself unable to pass a display of cookbooks in a store without stopping to look, to see if there's something new and interesting that I should have. Mostly, this addiction is fueled by those beautiful photos they have on the covers and throughout the books.

“What do I feel like making tonight?” I ask myself this question every evening and I am not generally much of a planner, so I used to wind up looking up recipes in my various cookbooks or online to see if I could work with what I had in the fridge or what looked good at the market. That's where the trouble started...

There are just so many recipes out there. If you do a google search for recipes, you will get endless results back. I went through a phase where I was addicted to buying new cookbooks, mainly because the photos are just so enticing these days, but also because there are so many. I have a few favorite internet sites for recipes, and even on one site there are huge numbers of recipes for any given ingredient.