There’s nothing like a trip to the mountains to get my appetite going. I don’t know what it is, but being up in higher elevations makes me want to eat, cook, bake and never leave the kitchen. I’m convinced this kind of living arrangement could be toxic. LOL
But it beckons the whole question and the whole problem if you will, about cooking. Cooking is a mandatory life skill, like it or not, that we all have to learn. I’ve been known to compare it to toilet cleaning when speaking to someone on the radio about their dislike about cooking—even if you don’t like it, it’s something that you need to know how to do if you care about being healthy.
Listen, you could eat all your food out. But if you did that, you would never, ever, EVER have control over your food. You wouldn’t be able to control the amount of fat it was cooked in, the amount of salt that was put on it or if there were any other undesirables added like MSG, sugar, high fructose corn syrup, GMO’s, etc. Even if you voice your concerns to your server, speak personally to the cook himself or direct your pleas to the restaurant manager. Ultimately, the control of what goes in your food goes right to the cook and not you. Cooking gives you control. It gives you power to choose and best of all, it gives you options!
When you cook you have the option to choose—do you get that? What would you think if you drove up to a drive thru and the gal at the window said, do you want salt with that? Or do you want fat with that? Do you want chemicals with that? Or how about, do you want bugs, dirt or filth with that? Yep, when you’re dealing with a kitchen you can’t see, you don’t know what the conditions are or what the heck is really going in your food.
When you cook in your own home, you never have to worry about any of that because you choose your own raw food, you bring it home, you cook it in your kitchen and you eat it. It’s a simple thing, something we’ve collectively been doing since the dawn of time; hunting for food, bringing it home, cooking it and eating it.
This week as you contemplate your week, I invite you to add the food you eat into the equation. Plan your food. Seriously. Don’t just eat haphazardly anywhere just to fill the void in your stomach. Plan what you will eat, when you will shop and then gather your family together and enjoy their company. These simple things could revolutionize your family life and change the course of your health.
