Love Food: Eat Slowly

One of the problems in our daily lives is that many of us rush through the day, with no time for anything … and when we have time to get a bite to eat, we gobble it down. Tisk...Tisk. You just missed out on a mouthful experience. A source of fuel and decadent delight a pleasure so instant you're busy swallowing you just missed the point.
Eat slowly. Chew like its your last meal and swallow like your soul depends on it. 

I know you're busy. I know your stressed but remember what I said about being motivated at work? Take a real Break!!

It’s about a lifestyle. It's about making each moment count. It is about having healthy eating habits. If you eat slowly you will remember what you ate and have enough for your stomach and won't be hungry or nibbling as often.  And whether you want to adopt that lifestyle or not, there are some reasons you should consider the simple act of eating slower:

1. You will lose Weight

If we eat fast, we can continue eating past the point where we’re full. If we eat slowly, we have time to realize we’re full, and stop on time.

2. You Will Enjoy the Experience of Food

It’s hard to enjoy your food if it goes by too quickly. In fact, I think it’s fine to eat sinful foods, if you eat a small amount slowly. Think about it: you want to eat sinful foods (desserts, fried foods, pizza, etc.) because they taste good. But if you eat them fast, what’s the point? If you eat them slowly, you can get the same amount of great taste, but with less going into your stomach. I think you are just happier by tasting great food and enjoying it fully, by eating slowly. Make your meals a gastronomic pleasure, not a thing you do rushed, between stressful events.

3. You Will Never Feel Guilty Again

... If you eat smart you will never feel guilt about what you ate ever again.

4. Less Stress

Eating slowly, and paying attention to our eating, can be a great form of mindfulness exercise. Be in the moment, rather than rushing through a meal thinking about what you need to do next. When you eat, you should eat. This kind of mindfulness will lead to a less stressful life, and happiness.

5. You will Want to Eat Healthy Food

Our hectic, fast-paced, stressful, chaotic lives — the Fast Life — leads to eating Fast Food, and eating it quickly. This is a lifestyle that is dehumanizing us, making us unhealthy, stressed out, and unhappy. We rush through our day, doing one mindless task after another, without taking the time to live life, to enjoy life, to relate to each other, to be human. Try not to eat at Fast Foods too often. Eat at a good restaurant, or better yet, cook your own food and enjoy it fully. Taste life itself.

So eat and be merry. I would like to share a can't-go- wrong Julia Child receipt that is truly tasty and delicious and can feed a big dinner group of eight with two chickens. Add that with roast potatoes and baked pumpkin with couscous- Bon Appetite!!

Je parle Francais.

First thing you do when you get to a foreign country that speaks a foreign language, is learn the foreign language before you get here. I had had French lessons before but it did not prepare me for ordering at a restaurant that was serving Belgian delicacies. I was being adventurous. There is nothing worse than starving to death and looking at the menu and having no idea what it means. I have killer instincts when I'm hungry. I say killer instincts because I mean I will kill- to- eat- anything- right- now mood swings. I turn into those scary Gremlins if I don't eat. Short people need to eat. We're feisty. Yes, great something I understand L'americain prépare. Food prepared in an American way. Fantastic, I have travelled mile across countries and sea to Europe, Brussels to have food prepared in a Belgian American way. That's not what it really means its just called L'americain prépare. 


The raw fresh beef minced to an oblivion, seasoned with salt and pepper fresh herbs, worcester sauce and onions, top off with a raw egg you mix yourself and gherkins to garnish served with those great Belgian potatoe chips (we will get to that)... Delicious.