Cooking

This is the question I ask myself every time I decide to eat or cook something: is it worth the effort? I know this seems shallow and I'll be the first to admit that I'm far from a foodie. I've grown up around people who love food my whole life. With my mom as the director of our local cooking school, we have a new dish every night and while this is nice and I'm grateful to not be eating chili and tacos every night but the truth is I could probably survive on noodles, edimame, carrots, zucchini, broccoli, apples, salad, burgers and chocolate and be totally content. Last January I tried being a vegetarian just because I didn't eat very much meat anyway and I didn't like a lot of it. It was fine and I lasted for 8 months but after awhile I got tired of not being able to eat a burger at a restaurant or chicken in a salad and so I stopped and ate a burger. But I'd be very okay to never eat ribs ever again. One, they're pretty much the messiest kinda of food you can eat and two, you barely get anything off of them- and so, not worth it. Bacon, although it smells good there are very few parts on it that aren't pure fat- not worth it. Carrots on the other hand, pull them out of the fridge and eat them- very very worth it.

Food is one of those things that for me I would rather just not have to deal with. Although I like to eat the foods I like, it's so much hassle trying to eat the "right" things, getting enough vegetables in my diet and balancing dairy and fruit. Getting vitamins and being healthy is just a very hard thing for me to do because food is just not that big of a priority in my life. Don't get me wrong every once in a while I like to bake a pizza or some cookies or the occasional stir fry but in actuallity moat of the time making elaborate food to eat is just not worth it to me.

You might ask then, why this oaf is writing a food blog. And this is the answer; im not exactly foing this beause of the food, I'm doing this because its fun! Like a food adventure and everyone knows that oafs love adventures. I'm doing this because of the fact I don't love food because it makes writing about it that much harder, it's a challenge and oafs also enjoy a good challenge.

Anyway, food for thought- try something that's not super easy and maybe not your favorite thing cause you might actually love it and don't write things off too quickly because just cause you don't like one aspect of it you might really enjoy blogging about it instead!

From one oaf to all,
Catherine