Transformative Meal Making for Healthier, Happier Eating
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Hi, I’m Mary Collette.
I’d like to introduce you to something entirely new in the healthy eating area
If you struggle making healthy meals happen, what if the thinking and beliefs you bring into the kitchen are a big part of the problem? And by embracing the kitchen and cooking as vital pathways to good health might you meet with greater success?
I hope you’ll follow along as I share more about this unusual approach. It may well be the missing link you’re waiting for.
Headwinds–the constellation of headwinds you face
I know you face a constellation of headwinds: work, kids, meetings, shopping, social activities, working out, car repairs, doctor appointments, commutes, financial stress . . .
Can you even remember a time when life was not so chaotic, crazy, stressful and overwhelming?
Can you even imagine a time when things will be under control enough so you can make meals that take good care of you (and maybe a family, too)
What’s the end game here? Will things ever change and get better? Or do you just give up? Resign yourself to never making and eating the health-giving meals you long for?
Could there be some way to escape the “modern life trap?” Could you get to a place with a little calm and a relative sense of control, where you can make and eat the meals you deeply crave: Wholesome, vegetable-rich, yummy, deeply nourishing—and quick and easy!
Hope–for quick, easy, delicious and healthful meals
Can I offer you hope through an entirely new approach: Not another diet, not more recipes, not another quick kitchen tip, not a new super food.
Instead, a new, deeper, transformative way of thinking.
“Mary,” you’re probably saying, “How can a change of thinking help me? I need quick and easy recipes, I need kitchen tips to save time, I need good pans, I need an Instant Pot, I need a diet app, I need a shopping service . . . . But don’t you already have all these things?!
Take a look around your kitchen. Most people have drawers and counters filled with time-saving appliances and gadgets, access to thousands of recipes between cookbooks and the Internet, shopping services are nothing new, grocery stores carry a wide variety of pre-chopped veggies and nutritional information is everywhere.
If these resources could solve our wholesome meal making and eating challenges, wouldn’t we already be healthy eaters?
This is why I’m challenging you to consider a new, hopeful solution, something more transformative, beyond quick tips, more recipes and more gadgets. What if we took a look at the deeper thinking, perspectives, assumptions and values we bring to the kitchen, i.e., the “infrastructure” that supports quick, easy, everyday meal making.
Magic–breakthrough, without struggle or stress
Maybe what I’m saying makes some sense, but still you’re puzzled: How in the world can new and more productive thinking make it easier to get decent meals on the table?!!
It’s because our thinking and beliefs are what drive us. In other words, our actions follow what we value. And happily that happens, naturally, without stress or sacrifice.
So if, at the deepest, heartfelt level, we value the very special (almost sacred) act of feeding our bodies well, something wonderful happens: Our lives open to make room for healthy meal making. The time, motivation and energy show up. Meal making becomes a highly valued, non-negotiable priority.
Kind of like magic.
Limiting Beliefs–experience freedom from convenience thinking
But right now we don’t get to experience that magic. Instead, we’re trapped by the limiting beliefs, like: cooking is too hard, tedious, time-consuming, overwhelming and impossible for ordinary home cooks.
These limiting beliefs have been put there by our Convenience Eating Culture. Making our own, health-giving meals has been denigrated in favor of eating convenient but health-compromising processed foods.
We’ve been led to believe that cooking is not a worthwhile use of our time. Consequently, our lives have been filled with myriad other activities so indeed it looks like we have no time, energy or motivation to make our own meals.
But these limiting thoughts are not our thoughts and beliefs. Like every other species, nature has programmed we humans to survive and thrive! It is only modern food marketing that has convinced us to ignore those natural instincts. We have been led instead to believe that eating factory-made convenience foods is an acceptable substitute for the real, whole foods that Nature has given us—despite massive amounts of health data to the contrary.
Transformation–go deeper & shake things up by the roots
So once again I’m asking, do we need a mindshift, a deeper transformation, a reframe, renewal and re-imagining of our relationship to food, eating, the kitchen and cooking?
Do we need to shake things up by the roots?
I know that sounds like a tall order when it feels like you have no time. But guess what: changing the way you think takes barely any time, just three simple and quick steps:
Watch as your “eyesight” begins to change and you begin seeing the kitchen and cooking in a whole new light–as critical and wonderfully delicious pathways to the good health you crave.
Your Transformation Guide
In the cultures we admire for their healthful and delicious diets, the kitchen and cooking play a central and very much valued role. Much as we might want to, we cannot follow their lead without reframing and transforming our relationship with cooking and kitchen. We must see, embrace and value them as critical pathways to the good health we crave.
This is the lesson I learned from the health crisis I and my children suffered 35 years ago. While an allergen-free, vegetable-rich diet healed us fairly quickly, sustaining that eating approach was not easy as I juggled child-rearing plus a new business. I ranted and raved at the “injustice” of having to make real, whole food meals three times a day, every day. Why couldn’t we just order a pizza, eat a PBJ or make a cheese quesadilla?
Gradually, however, I realized that the kitchen and cooking were healing modalities as vital as any pill or supplement. I came to see them as my allies and partners, delivering the good, energetic health I so loved. Clearly, this deeper transformation in thinking was an absolutely critical foundation for making a good diet happen consistently, despite a crazy busy life.
I wish you wonderful good health and if my experience and hard-won wisdom could help you go deeper and transform the thinking and perspectives you bring to the kitchen, I would love to be your guide and partner.
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You have really helped me over the years to slowly shift my thinking around cooking and the kitchen. I’m so much more willing to try things and to actually spend time cooking. I enjoy it now!
Kimberly