Cooking Whole Foods

You know what I hear often?

'I don't want to buy [said meat product - like a whole chicken] because I don't really know how to cook it.'

And I'm going to wipe that thought right out of your head, because you do know.

Cooking our own whole foods is probably the oldest instinct we have.

You know how to provide, feed and support yourself and those around you, I promise.

If you truly want to think about it, supermarkets weren't really a thing until the 1940s ish, which is only 2-3 generations ago. Processed food didn't exist until the 1960s or so.

Cooking whole foods is really not that far away.

The amount of really 'great' marketing that's been thrown at us over the last 60 years to make us distrust everything we always knew is really quite impressive and shocking all at the same time.

Social media has ruined our love for food. It's increased our expectations in what our food 'should' look like and decreased our expectations in what it should taste like, causing us to think that the only way to make quality food is if it looks good.

 I don't know about you but my belly doesn't care what my food looks like on my plate, just what's able to nourish my body from the food coming in. 

One day at the market, someone once told me that they didn't want to buy a whole chicken because they didn't know how to cook it, even though they ate chicken regularly.

And when I told them that they can just put it in their slow cooker with veggies they have in the fridge, to make it so non complicated they barely had to think about it because realistically, I don't have time to fuss over super either - they bought the whole chicken.

And then came back the next week looking for more. Because good food truly truly doesn't need to be complicated.

It's easier than you think and I promise that you know more than you think, just trust yourself.

**Hate cooking? ask yourself why? where does this come from? What experiences do you have that have caused this? And there's no need to fix it, just to be aware of it.  Providing for ourselves and others is as old as time, lean into that instead.