charlie alice cooks

My first takeaways

When you are at the point where you take your body’s needs and potentials seriously, then your next step is: fall in love.

Not with a human, but with vegetables, fruits, herbs, spices, oils, nuts, the great variety of carbs and all other unprocessed foods. That’s not all, you also need to develop some love for cooking.

How to fall in love?

Take time to get to know them all: the blueberry, the carrot, the salad, the pepper, the walnut, the chicken pea. Look at them, find out where they come from, how they grow. It’s a funny thing but when we spend time with something, that’s when we connect. When we connect, we can develop love. When we love, we care, not least, for ourselves.

For me, this was the most essential step. To stop being annoyed about having to eat and instead to find some love and joy in preparing food.

Here are some more takeaways:

Wash & eat
Many vegetables don’t need to be prepared. You can just wash and eat them raw (though, I guess that’s not accessible for everyone). For example, it never occurred to me that I could just bite into a mushroom. By now, I love to take mushrooms and tomatoes as snacks on my hikes.

Mix fruits & vegetables
I love to create salads which have field salad, pak choi, chicory or spinach leaves as basis and then I add blueberries and bananas, or apple and pomegranate and some cereals (without sugar), seeds and nuts.

Variety has few limits
I have made a soup from twenty ingredients and my digestive system loves it. Plus, if you forgo using herbs and spices, then the vegetables create interesting flavours.

Variety in foods
I hadn’t been aware that variety really means variety. Not just three different ingredients a day but different kinds of fruits, different kinds of veggies, carbs, nuts and so on.

This winter, I will add some of my newly created recipes. What worries me most about them is that I can’t think of good names for them. Well, I still have some weeks to come up with some.

If you would like to add recommendations or recipes for people who are working on creating a positive relationship with food and cooking, please, get in touch: contact@breastless.net