Stop Blogging and Cook

RELATED POST APRIL 6th:  PLAY BALL!

Picky eaters are problematic, but not if you’re open-minded.  Go to the grocery or the green market and look for a new fruit or vegetable that you’ve not tried before.  Take it home and look up a preparation – raw or cooked – and prepare it with enthusiasm.

Cooking is experimentation, even adventure.  Making the same things over and over, while convenient and predictable, gets old after a while.  If you develop a sense of adventure, you’re ahead of the game.  You’ll eat a more varied diet and have fun in the process.  Maybe even have some stories to tell coworkers at the water cooler.

IDEAS FOR NEW FOODS:

• Grain to cook, like quinoa or forbidden rice.
• Seed: flax or sesame.
• Type of sweetener, like sucanat or molassas.
• Cooking sweetener: apple cider, raisins or dried apricots.
• Flavoring such as balsamic vinegar
• Onion for cooking: shallots or red onion.
• Non-meat source of protein such as  almond butter, lentils or bean sprouts.
• Fresh fish fillet like salmon, flounder or snapper.