So. It is January 2, 2010. I usually take time to review my year in my head and think through what I am doing and where I am going. I have not really done that yet. I have thought through this blog a bit though. That last sentence seems funny to me cause I said “thought’, ‘through’, and ‘though’. Do not get tripped up.

As I have said many times, I like food. I like to eat. I am sure you do too. That reason is most likely why you are here reading this post. I must say though, I do not want to idolize food in any way. I know I do that sometimes. Maybe we all do. Maybe in some ways we idolize all of our desires, whatever they may be. That is a lot of maybe’s.

After thinking it through, I have decided that I will keep this blog. Ha. I think it is good to grow in all areas of life and I enjoy food and learning about it. Also, I think the wisdom of being able to share healthy, nourishing food with other people, especially our families is good and important. It is good and important for life, community, fellowship, together-ness, yada yada yada.

For most of my blogs, I have asked myself if I would be the only one reading them, or knowing about them, would I still write on them.?. That is kind of my test to see if it is worth it to me. Maybe that is because I like to talk to myself, but the answer is yes. So, I like that answer because then, regardless of who reads it, I still write it. Of course, there are several other factors that play into it, but that was enough for now.

So, in 2010 I hope to be posting on a more consistent basis (not necessarily more frequently). With that said, I hope you are having a nice start to the new year and that you can find some useful information here for the year to come. Happy New Year!

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I do not live to eat.

Since this is the first blog of the site, I thought I would talk about the reason I even started this blog. Sure it could go in the About Me section… but really I find that it continues to change day by day and therefore I will probably blog regularly about the purpose of this blog.

The majority of people who grew up in the USA have no clue when it comes to food. We have grown up with supermarkets with all types of manufactured foods. We think pop-tarts and fruity pebbles are normal breakfast foods. The fact is, they are not food. Food is a nutritious substance that we consume to maintain life and growth. Yeah, textbook definition.

What many consider to be food is just manufactured ingredients or food that has been so processed, refined, and adulterated that our bodies do not recognize it as food. I remember an international student visiting one of my Econ classes in college and during the Q&A somehow the subject of food came up and the student, when asked about food in the U.S. said “It all tastes like plastic”. She went on to say that it didn’t have much flavor. She was right.

So in 2004 I started changing my diet. I changed for several reasons. My mom passed away in 2002 and that played a big part of it. I remember studying several alternative healing methods and trying to find the connection between food and health because I knew there was one. My sister was also making changes and that motivated me to study it further. Gradually I kept learning about food and changing things that I could. I am still learning today and this blog is just another part of that journey.

I have found that the more I learn about food, the more I enjoy eating food. Not living to eat, but eating to live.

There is lots more to share… lots more to come.

-Tim