Blog.EmealsForYou

Many of  my friends are single people who treat the idea of cooking for themselves as a disease they would like to avoid at all costs.  This is not to say they don’t like good food just that they look upon preparing it just short of torture.  To them it is easier t o grab a cold slice of pizza from the countertop than to actually think about making a meal they would enjoy; if they only would take the time.

These same people will spend hours downloading just the right group of songs from the Internet, time is not an issue here.  They race home from work to watch their TIVO’d versions of daytime talk shows and soaps; all the while wolfing down a can of barely heated soup, probably right out of the pan.

What we need here is an attitude adjustment.  Think more about the enjoyment end of meals and less about the dreaded preparation.  Let’s take a look at a “typical” day.  Things are piling up at work, it seems you will never catch up and then you allow yourself to think about going home, pouring a hot bath, lighting some candles, and turning on some of your favorite tunes and just relaxing. Ah!!!!.  See, just reading about it makes you smile a little.

Try this.  Pick a night, set the table for yourself before heading off to work.  Now at work think about coming home and having a really good meal, a celebration of yourself.  Think about it the same way you would think about that hot bath.  The bath takes some prep but in the end it is all worth the effort.  Once you realize how little effort it takes; how rewarding it becomes, you will find yourself doing it more.  The next step is to invite a friend over, suddenly there are more rewarding aspects to your life besides reruns of The View.