Live For Food

Another year is here and as always it signals the end of the holiday period. I suppose January is typically the month when we have the most negative thoughts about food. We wonder how on earth we could have eaten so much, and decide to spend the month of January living on salad!  I’m probably not […]

In my very first post I talked about my relationship with food and my growing interest in it throughout my life, and how eventually that relationship turned slightly unhealthy.  Here is my story continued… Following the realization that I was putting on weight, at a rate of about a pound a week as it turned […]

Many of my favorite foods fall into the unhealthy category.  I love pizza, cheese, chocolate, cakes, pastries… I think you get the idea.  It seems so inherently unfair that all the unhealthy foods taste better than the healthy ones. I always remember this birthday card a friend received.  It had a picture of God with […]

I think I’ve always lived for food to some extent.  As a little girl I would swap my homemade cake for my best friend’s chocolate biscuits – to the satisfaction of both of us.  I loved helping my granny put out family teas – buttering the bread, washing the salad, and setting the food out […]