Oh hi. There’s a lot to be said or expressed about food. What we eat and how we approach food conversations says quite a bit. We often justify what we’re about to ingest, putting verbal disclaimers on the contents.

When you are someone like myself who promotes the education of healthy eating, you tend to get an earful. Foods are made acceptable, foods are made bad by the individual. Assigning foods positives and negatives like this doesn’t make the diet any easier, friends (more on diets in a later post). Try approaching foods as neutral goods; healthy eating is very broad in its description. We need it to fuel our bodies and what is energizing and nutritive to one person can be drastically different for the next.

I am going to use myself as an example to elaborate on this matter. I generally eat a wide spectrum of foods (think eating a rainbow here) and experiment tons with recipes and meal concepts. You will most likely not hear the following words from me – I never eat that. That just doesn’t work in my world. Could you imagine the ramifications of me telling my 87 year old Grandmother that I am not going to eat her delicious butter, milk, cheese and white pasta homemade mac and cheese??

Dear folks reading this….please, please be kinder to yourselves and those offering to nourish you. If you crave that small wedge of Brie, enjoy it! Put it on top of a kale salad with a simple dressing. Really feel like a hot fudge sundae would make your day? Go for it, I give you permission!