Love Yourself

Feed Yourself Something Nutritious AND Make It Beautiful

Does this sound basic?

It is...but it isn't !  
But actually this is a really big deal.
You may look at me or my blog and really see my passion for healthy eating/training and think it is easy for me or that I have always eaten this way.  
But you know what?  Although I think I have always eaten somewhat healthily, since my parents raising my sisters and I worked hard to always create nutritious meals for us often with food that they grew in their own garden, I think my diet has been evolving for years and honestly wasn't always great.
A big part of that evolution was creating this blog.
Once upon a time I found myself at a point where I was creating meals for my son and just forgetting about myself. Really mostly because it seemed easier.
Less work
On top of everything I did in a day doing less sounded good to me.
Straight up....I found myself eating tuna out of a tin can over the kitchen sink for dinner while my kiddo munched on a snack plate of colourful nutritious favourites in the other room.  SO many things wrong with this picture.
  
I don't think I was loving myself much.  I knew it wasn't what I wanted for myself and I wanted a change.
I decided I would start a food blog and share the things I knew where great about nutrition and food.  It was sorta like tricking myself.  Like if you were to tell yourself you were making a meal for someone you had a crush on...or someone you really love.  Make it amazing and make it beautiful.  Turns out this meal is for YOU.
Whoa...
yeah I know.
Love yourself
your crush is on you!
Nourish your mind your body and your spirit.  

We are what we eat.  You hear this a lot.  But it is true true true! 
What we eat makes up our cells, it gives us energy and fuel to live.
It powers our brains, has the ability to change our genes, change our emotions and our thoughts.  This is SO powerful.
I am obsessed with learning about all of this.  Not just about the beauty of food but what it does for us at the cellular level.  From how the acidity in our food effects our bodies and effects our health
How taking deep breathes bringing more oxygen into our cells can be a game changer....
like do you ever consider oxygen SERIOUSLY google it or look at THIS

If you believe as I do that we are what we eat then what better way to love ourselves than through making beautiful food!
Your meals do not have to be fancy or keep you slaving in your kitchen for hours
Make something simple
Like a Rice Bowl with chopped colourful veggies, or roasted squash 
include with your meal fresh berries 
interesting nuts or seeds roasted perfectly 
create a healthy dressing full of flavour 
put care into how you arrange it in a big beautiful bowl 
Sit with the people you love
always eat together if you can 
OR set a beautiful table for one 
put a single dandelion in a vase 
light a candle 
simple
BUT
make it special
Love yourself 
you will be amazed at how this feels

xoxo

Ashie Girl