Rage Against The Cuisine

Invictus – No Fear

by KitchenRebel on November 14, 2017

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This song helps and heals me in ways I can’t even begin to express. It gives me strength and inspiration. I have been knocked down, literally on the ground, and this song is what gave me the strength to get up. It’s my mantra, my prayer. This song saved my life.

Madiba put it so perfectly, so I proudly use his words to describe what this means to me.

How do we inspire ourselves to greatness when nothing less will do? How do we inspire everyone around us? I sometimes think it is by using the work of others.  When things get very bad, I find inspiration in a poem. An Aarophat poem. Just words.  But they help me to stand when all I want to do is to lay down.

INVICTUS

Sometimes I feel the dawn just as dim as the dusk,
Up in the sky all these black clouds following us and never go by
Niggas got motive
Don’t know who to trust
Even friendly eyes disguise what they want from a bruh,

And so I try to keep my head to the heavens
Watching the ground on my paseo
Staying focused on my j-o til its k-o’ed
As days go flying
Look at the speed of time,
It’s mind blowing
One minute your grind’s going, next you’re grey and old

Seems like aint nothing in your favor
After everything you pray for folds
Like the summer turns cold
The ice covers your life
Until youre sliding off the road
And you vie for control, to put some light up in your soul
And so I thank the gods for making me unconquerable
I know the damage all this darkness will do
True it’s against all odds
Only the sharpness of your tools will walk you through,
I know its hard to do but

No matter what we gonna be right here
Thru all the wrath and all the tears
Unconquerable, we preserve
Invictus. No fear

I know I’m tired of waiting on happiness hibernating,
Praying it awaken
With a way I can break away from playing with satan
The struggle got my muscles shaking due to fatigue
And its hard for you to believe, without something to put your faith in

I’m walking with my face in a daze,
A zombie encased in a maze
Unfree
Wondering where the key gon be,
It’s a lock on the pantry and I’m hungry
Plus I’m slimming in my denim jeans
Ornery
I want to eat
Shit, I aint dieting
I’m dying, man
Stressing
Got my brains in the frying pan
Feeling so much pain
Still I try again, like maybe this time I can breathe
But this hustle isn’t easy on my diaphragm

Though I enhance in spite of the enemy’s might,
I got to, and say fuck the world off the henny and pineapple
Under chance and its bludgeoning blow,
I learned how to while covered in blood
Still find no one to bow to

No matter what we gonna be right here
Thru all the wrath and all the tears
Unconquerable, we preserve
Invictus. No fear

I got this ice water all in my veins,
My DNA strains contain a will that wont wane,
Its real, but complain?
We still just don’t, man
We build our domain in silence
Against the going grain
Though the pain still shoots through my limbs
And rain putting mud stains on the roots of my timbs
I know its grim
But the mission is to drudge
And un soil the gems from the sludge
And we don’t budge
til we holding them
Within the harness of circumstances,
Whatever comes
Regardless

We taking chances, to make advances
I’m done with these portions of misfortune
Living lives cost
Looking with the poorest distortions
A man gets but only one journey
So we gotta turn cheese
before we roll out covered on a gurney
Cause through it all I’m trying to see a dynasty
So that the family can live in the light eternally
Finally

Eat less the easy way – Just trick yourself

by KitchenRebel on September 25, 2014

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I have something to confess – Sometimes I’m totally amazed that the amount of food I now eat in a week, is often the same as what I used to eat in one day.

There was a time I could quite easily eat 3 big meals a day, snacks in between meals and still eat more if the opportunity or right snack presented itself.  Ah those days of thinking “I might as well just finish off the ice cream” or chocolate. I might as well eat it all, its almost finished and I already at this much.

And worse still, the foods I ate because I felt the need to finish them off so they wouldn’t go to waste. I rationalized that I did not want to waste food or money. I was really just treating my body like a garbage disposal.

One of my favourite and most used excuses was that I work in the food industry. I’m a chef. I have to cook and taste all day long, so I can’t be expected to eat as little as civilians. What a load of bull twaddle. I was really good at justifying my bad habits and unhappiness.

And I was unhappy. I was tired, had little energy, and one of the worst things – I woke up in the morning feeling terrible.. and I’d rush to get coffee to make me feel better.

But in a few short weeks I learned to eat less by tricking my body and appetite by doing just five simple things:

1 – Use small plates and bowls

Studies have shown that people tend to serve themselves considerably less in small plates than large plates. A 2006 study found that even nutritional experts dished themselves (and ate) more when given larger dinnerware.
We tend to fill our plates, I found that filling a small plate and even having seconds was most often still less than a full large plate of food.
Small plates worked like magic for me.

2 – Eating with smaller forks and spoons

While studies suggest using bigger utensils, I found using smaller utensils helped. It made me feel like I’m eating more, having more fork/spoonfuls of food. I eat with dessert forks and spoons. Not only are they cute, and I buy myself special single fork and spoons, it makes my meal time feel special.
I also like using the fancy plates. Treating myself like a guest and my meal like a photoshoot. Every meal is a date with myself!

3 – Enjoy every bite

Chew slowly and purposely. Savouring and enjoying every bite. I stopped inhaling my food!  I was surprised by how much longer it took me to eat. I was even more surprised by how quickly I had been eating before. They say take time to smell the flowers, slow down to appreciate beauty and the wonders of the world around you, that includes food. And food is one of the most wonderful things to me.
Every meal is a date with yourself, your body and your health. Don’t rush it.

4 – Want seconds? Take a break

I’m not one of those people who doesn’t like eating their own food. I love my food. After all I make it just the way I like it. I realized that when I want a second helping, its not because I’m still hungry, its because I just enjoyed eating the meal so much and I want more. So when I want a second helping, I get up, talk a walk around the house. Or just step out of the “food zone” away from the table, my plate and the kitchen. Sometimes I’d just walk to the bathroom. 95% of the time I would not have a second helping.

5 – Drink more water

Often when contemplating a second helping, I would just drink some water.  Its also one of the best fixes for “I really want something, but I don’t know what”

Image credit: The pic isn’t mine, I stumbled upon the pic while doing a Google search, but clicking on the pic gave “Page not found” messages. 

 

Creative Constipation and Other Sh!*%

by KitchenRebel on July 20, 2014

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I remember how to write again! I remember how words work and shit. It’s been a challenging week.. Creative constipation and looming depression.

Stressed out, nervous, anxious, busy but largely unproductive days. And then I make the mistake of compounding all that mind fuckery by not feeding my body properly.

I couldn’t get a grip on my nutrition this week. Most days I didn’t eat breakfast, I made healthy breakfasts and meals for him, but I just sort of forgot to eat.. then went most of the day without eating, until I devoured my dinner.

I could actually feel my metabolism slowing down.

But clouds are clearing. After a week of creative constipation.. feeling like everything I do is shit.. My brain woke me at 5am this morning and was ready to get to work.

 

 

 

Weapons of Mass Destruction

by KitchenRebel on July 10, 2014

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Food is Medicine

We eat more processed and packaged foods than ever in our history.  We are being fed so many chemicals in our food supply. We are fatter and unhealthier than ever. We are eating ourselves sick!!

Our diets rely heavily on foods that include artificial colour, additives, flavourings, chemically-altered fats and sweeteners.  Foods that are convenient and taste really good, but are often highly processed, and contain very little nutritional value.  The grocery store has become one of the worst places to get food. When last have you seen a food label that didn’t contain ingredients you couldn’t pronounce, or wouldn’t recognize if you saw it. Do you know what a soy lecithin is and what it looks like?

Our food contains Empty calories – calories with no actual nutritional value. Even many ‘health’ foods (e.g. tofu) are so highly processed that they are no better for you than fast food. Most of these foods natural nutrients are removed in the refining process.

We’ve all heard it.. our moms, or grandmas (or me!), talking about how tomatoes used to taste like tomato, so tasty and sweet you could eat them like apples.  Our food is not the same as it was 20 or 30 years ago. Nutrients in the soil have been depleted so food grown in that soil has fewer nutrients to start with. Large industrial factory farms specialize in fewer products, so chemicals are needed to manipulate the land to produce maximum volume. Think about it, that just isn’t how Mother nature works. Fruits and vegetables shouldn’t be that perfectly uniform, like Stepford fruit.If-its-not-safe-to-breathe-is-it-safe-to-eat_copy

You don’t need to be knowledgeable about nutrition to know that you shouldn’t eat poison. If the ‘farmer’ is wearing a hazmat suit to handle the chemicals he puts on your food it’s probably not safe to put in your mouth.

Animals shouldn’t be tortured and made to suffer, pumped full of chemicals.. until its burger time.

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But the food industry and pharmaceutical industries are worth billions of dollars.  And they sell us drugs when we develop the diseases they cause. They’re in the business for customers not cures.

If you sell diseases AND the cures you don’t care about people being healthy. A drug dealer doesn’t want addicts to get clean.

The good news is that you can eat yourself healthy again. It’s never too late too start.
 And it doesn’t have to complicated and more importantly expensive. Eating less shouldn’t cost you more!

It also doesn’t mean a life sentence to kale and arugula. Because quite frankly there are some superfoods that I just have no interest in eating.  Good for you if you like eating vile tasting weeds.  I don’t care how many kale chips you get me to try they do not taste just like potato chips. I don’t know what weird shitty tasting potato chips you’re eating, because the chips the rest of us eat is fucking delicious and nothing like kale chips.

Eating healthy doesn’t mean no more chips, it just means no more chips from the drug dealer.

Just stop eating chemicals.

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We all know to be careful what we put in the other holes in our bodies, we wrap things in condoms to shove it in our naughty bits, but food, most of us just put it in our mouth and eat it. We don’t think about what’s in THAT flesh or where it comes from?  That hardly makes sense.  Don’t be a mouth whore!  Be selective about what you put in your mouth. Learn where your food comes from.

All it takes is you respecting your body, Mother Nature and our planet enough to want better for yourself. Are you giving your body and your life the respect it deserves?

Your food is medicine.  We’ve all heard it before. You are what you eat. But just think about it..

Every 35  days or so your skin replaces itself and your body creates new cells from the food you eat. What you eat literally becomes you.

YOU ARE WHAT YOU EAT.

Your bodies make new cells from everything you eat! It doesn’t skip the fries and only take the salad and vitamin supplements. The food you eat literally becomes you.

And you have a choice in what you’re made of.

“Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food” – Hippocrates

 

 

Gaining Weight and Other Mind Fucks

by KitchenRebel on July 7, 2014

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Losing weight, getting healthy and studying nutrition actually made me lazy!

When my husband was diagnosed with Diabetes I started studying nutrition. Determined that if diet causes diseases, then diet should reverse it. In just a few short months he turned his health around. And I lost a considerable amount of weight. (Over 65lbs and 10 dress sizes)

The only big change we made was going organic. Just eating real food. Avoiding fake food containing chemicals that cause addiction.

The transformation and change in lifestyle was easy. We still had treats and ate our favourites. Once a month or so we had a treat, mine was always sugar (cake or ice cream or chocolate) his was usually fried food (chicken, steak or chips).
But it was so easy getting healthy and losing weight we thought “we got this”. I thought I know what to do, and we can do, we did do it, and it was so very easy we can do it anytime we want.

So we started having treats more often. We went from once a month (or less) to weekly and then almost daily treats. Before I knew it, my weight started creeping back on.

 

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I recognized the mistakes I was making as I was making them, but I tried to live in denial for as long as I could.

I was so disappointed in myself. I vowed I would never again feel bad about my body, never again feel this disconnect and self hate. Feeling like I’m carrying around this body that is not a part of me..This thing I have to live with..

The sluggish mornings were back. The struggle finding clothes that felt comfortable were back.

When you’re spiraling, really it was more of a nice steady cruise, out of control, and feeding sugar and fat dependency, it often feels like its easier and more satisfying to just keep eating. It seems like getting back on track is this huge monumental thing, but its only as hard as the first step.

Someone complimented me, saying, “Don’t get wrong, you looked good when you lost all that weight, but you’ve gained weight and mmmm mmmmm damn you look goooood” He immediately went on to apologize (I think for making so many grunting noises lol) All I heard was “you’re fat” I actually felt angry at him.. and mostly myself.

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But then I was reminded of the day when I wrote this.

I am not defined by my waistline or the number on the scale. No one really notices or cares that much. Just me. The world didn’t stop when my skinny jeans needed a belt to keep them up. Neither did it stop when I was trying to hide my belly and body in big clothes. All that matters is how you feel about you.

Love yourself. Love the journey.

Getting healthy and being the best version of myself is what makes me happiest. And this time around, I’m going to document the process and share it with you. I believe health, weight loss and good nutrition information is free. No gimmicks. No special potions. (I’ve tried most of them!)
I did it the easy way, spending less money and eating better than ever. And it was easy. I want to share that with the world.

I’ve taken my a step back on the happy wagon. Not my first step. I refuse to let myself start over. I’ve taken too many steps to get here. I have the same body I was born with al those years ago.
I’m just taking new steps everyday.
One day at a time.

 

Declare Independence Y’all

by KitchenRebel on July 4, 2014

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It’s July 4th, Independence Day here in the States.

I woke this morning and just I was laid there, staring at the ceiling, feeling rather down on myself. Thinking about all the things I didn’t do this week. All the things I could have done better. Before I knew it I was venturing into the “all the things I’ve done wrong in my life” zone.

Feeling like my life, my house, my mind is in a mess.. my body is a mess. I didn’t exercise as planned. I didn’t eat properly…

I’ve been off my meds. Usually the balance of meds, endorphins and nutrition is what keeps me ok. When I’m off my meds (I detox/break from it regularly) I need to be extra careful and mindful of everything else or depression creeps in and takes over and my bipolar roller coaster goes off the rails.

I really need to tidy up.. my whole life.

I was feeling so down on myself.

I got out of bed thinking I just want coffee and donuts. Like a hug for my insides… to soothe my soul. And also destroy it slowly. (Without increased endorphins, nutrients and vitamins, sugar directly feeds my depression)

But then as I was making coffee I heard Stephen A Smith talking about pounding pavements and doing the hard work because only one in a billion people get to be special and be superstars and have it easy.

And then the first thing I stopped to read on social media was “14 Things Every Fat Girl Absolutely Needs To Hear” from Jess Baker, the Body-positive blogger and baker. Thank you Lady Vee for sharing that post, it really turned my day around. (And then she friended me. Believe it or not, I’m get really excited when I get new online friends.)

And then Lis posted Cut the Crap Solutions.

And I heard some good music..

 

And then I decided to be kind to myself today. Thats something I don’t think I have ever, in 40-odd years, consciously decided to do!

I’m cutting the crap. I’m accepting and embracing me, flaws and flab and all. I’m declaring my independence from the bullshit I let sabotage my life.

If you’re feeling depressed, unhappy or just in a funk, Remember you are never alone. There are many people who care out there, even strangers and friends you haven’t met yet, like me.

Feel free to stop by anytime and say whats up, life sucks, I need help, I’m hungry, I need a hug.. or just read the ramblings of this mad woman. I think I may sometimes come off as a crazy woman, who cusses way too much, but I promise I’m all cream puff on the inside and hugging and making others laugh and feel better brings me such joy and happiness.  I wish I could make the world a cup of tea and a slice pie and see if we can make it all  better..
and ohhh cream puffs. I love those.
and cake.. and burgers.
I really want a cheeseburger right now.
But I digress..

You can find me and free hugs here:
Facebook
Twitter
Google
Or email me.

Be kind to yourself. Declare your independence from the bs and unhappiness.

Happy Independence Day my friends.

I love y’all.

 

Ultimate Blog Challenge

by KitchenRebel on July 3, 2014

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I’ve always wanted to join a blog challenge so that I would blog more, but I never did because then I would have to blog more.

But I have finally done it! Thanks to the awesome and talented Lisa at A New Lis.com (dontcha just love that name!) I found the Ultimate Blog Challenge.

I’m excited about exercising my blogging muscles. Tomorrow I start blogging!

Wait.. I think I just started today!

 

Reset Cleanse Day 4 and 5

by KitchenRebel on June 18, 2014

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Day 4 and 5 were meh.

Headaches and general meh. I wasn’t entirely miserable. But life felt bland and boring. Even though my meals were anything but bland.

My creative spark was gone. I was feeling depression on the horizon. This is very dangerous territory for me. I’m bipolar. When I don’t maintain my balance it can be life threatening.

I wasn’t hungry. Not craving anything. Many things I miss are out of habit.

I went to sleep because I didn’t want to be awake. This sucks.

by KitchenRebel on January 2, 2014

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I’ve been exposing a lot of myself lately
So I thought I’d expose a little of myself

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R.E.S.P.E.C.T. Find out what it means to you

by KitchenRebel on June 13, 2013

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I’m rather pissed and quite frankly scared by the state of the food industry.. Organic vs Non organic and GMO’s (Genetically modified organism – which where Genetically modified food comes from).

Laws are being passed making it legal NOT disclose the ingredients and tell you exactly what is in your food, and if anything happens to you as result of eating genetically modified food you can’t do anything about it.

You can sue the cigarette company if smoking cigarettes kills you or gives you cancer. Even though they warn you that smoking cigarettes will give you cancer or kill you. They put warnings on the box, right next to a list of ingredients like – Acetone, arsenic, formaldehyde, tar and other toxins harmful to humans. But you cant sue anyone if the genetically modified corn on the cob you eat kills you, or gills start growing out of your armpits or you get cancer.  And you won’t even know it’s genetically modified because they don’t have to tell us what is in our food.

There is a food revolution happening. We are becoming more aware and informed about our food supply.  And if you don’t know, then it’s time to find out what you’re putting in your mouth.  We are addicted to chemicals and food-like products and we don’t even know it.

We are bombarded with information about healthy eating. Don’t eat carbs, Don’t eat meat, avoid gluten, eat raw food, eat like a caveman. It can all be very confusing And convincing. And it just pisses me off. I’m not a caveman or a monk and I don’t want to eat like one. Good for you if you are and it’s working out for you. You wont be reading this anyway because cavemen don’t have computers.

So much complicated advice, usually finding it’s way to us from the very companies selling us tainted food or someone trying to sell us a new product or trend.

We already know that we love fads and trends. We would rather read about something that we should be doing, like eating the latest ancient grain or the latest cure-all 2 week cleanse or a sexy dance fighting class that will give you a new body in 90 days, rather than to change the way we shop for and think about food.

It’s so much easier to go buy something new or add something to our diets than to face the reality that you need to change your lifestyle.

I recently spoke to someone who was convinced that adding a stick of butter to some special coffee is the secret to losing weight because that’s how monks in the mountains do it.  Now, unless you live like monk or a caveman and you’re expending as much energy , you probably shouldn’t follow their diets.  I’m pretty sure the monks having butter in their coffee are not also having donuts and burgers. And cavemen burned a great deal of energy to get to their steaks. And I don’t believe they had bacon. So unless you’re running a few miles and burning a few hundred calories getting to your steak, you probably shouldn’t have the diet of someone who does.

We eat more processed and packaged foods than ever in our history.  We are being fed so many chemicals in our food supply. We are fatter and unhealthier than ever.

75% of our diseases are as result of diet. We are eating ourselves sick!!

Our diets rely heavily on foods that include artificial colour, additives, flavourings, chemically-altered fats and sweeteners.  Foods that are convenient and taste really good, but are often highly processed, and contain very little nutritional value.  The grocery store has become one of the worst places to get food. When last have you seen a food label that didn’t contain ingredients you couldn’t pronounce, or wouldn’t recognize if you saw it. DO you know what a soy lecithin is and what it looks like?

Our food contains Empty calories. Foods contain calories but no actual nutritional value.

Even many ‘health’ foods (e.g. tofu) are so highly processed that they are no better for you than fast food. Most of these foods natural nutrients are removed in the refining process. And our food contains less nutrition than ever. We’ve all heard it.. our moms, or grandmas (or me!), talking about how tomatoes used to taste like tomato, so tasty and sweet you could eat them like apples.  Our food is not the same as it was 20 or 30 years ago. Nutrients in the soil have been depleted so food grown in that soil has fewer nutrients to start with. Large industrial factory farms specialize in fewer products, so chemicals are needed to manipulate the land to produce maximum volume. Think about it, that just isn’t how Mother nature works.  Fruits and vegetables shouldn’t be that perfectly uniform, like Stepford fruit.

You don’t need to be knowledgeable about nutrition to know that you shouldn’t eat poison. If the ‘farmer’ is wearing a hazmat suit to handle the chemicals he puts on your food it’s probably not safe to put in your mouth.

Animals shouldn’t be treated like crack whores, tortured and strung out on drugs until its burger time.

But the food industry and pharmaceutical industries are worth billions of dollars.  And they sell us drugs when we develop diseases they cause. They’re in the business for customers not cures.

If you sell diseases AND the cures you don’t care about people being healthy. A drug dealer doesn’t want addicts to get clean.

The good news is that you can eat yourself healthy again. It’s never too late too start.
 And it doesn’t have to complicated and more importantly expensive. Eating less shouldn’t cost you more!

It also doesn’t mean a life sentence to kale and arugula. Because quite frankly there are some superfoods that I just have no interest in eating.  Good for you if you like eating vile tasting weeds.  I don’t care how many kale chips you get me to try they do not taste just like potato chips. I don’t know what weird shitty tasting potato chips you’re eating, because the chips the rest of us eat is fucking delicious and addictive. You can’t have just one.. it’s the orange or brown crack they sprinkle on the chips.

Eating healthy doesn’t mean no more chips, it just means no more crack chips.

Just stop eating chemicals.

We all know to be careful what we put in the other holes in our bodies, we wrap things in condoms to shove it in our fun bits, but food most of us just put in our mouth and eat it. We don’t think about what’s in THAT flesh or where it comes from?  That hardly makes sense.  Don’t be a mouth whore! Be selective about what you put in your mouth.

All it takes is you respecting your body, Mother Nature and our planet enough to want better for yourself. Are you giving your body and your life the respect it deserves?

Your food is medicine.  We’ve all heard it before. You are what you eat. But just think about it..

Every 35  days or so your skin replaces itself and your body creates new cells from the food you eat.  What you eat literally becomes you.

YOU ARE WHAT YOU EAT.

Your bodies make new cells from everything you eat! It doesn’t skip the fries and only take the salad and vitamin supplements. The food you eat literally becomes you.

And you have a choice in what you’re made of.

 “Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food” – Hippocrates

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Berry Got Butt

by KitchenRebel on May 2, 2013

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Tomato Olive Cheese Ladybugs

by KitchenRebel on June 27, 2012

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My First Gingerbread House

by Me on April 5, 2011

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This was my first ever gingerbread house.  It all started with a daydream about eating a house made of candy à la Hansel and Gretel, but more like me and Noodles ripping apart said candy house à la Godzilla vs The Big Giant Head.   It was going to be a basic simple straightforward gingerbread house.  For about 3 seconds!   Then I decided that since I’m living in California my Gingerbread house should have a touch of beach chalet.  I think I’ll add a sun room. And of course I need a deck….

Apparently I’m not a fan of straightforward and basic.

Before I knew it.. how about a 2 car garage, gazebo? windows? opening door? lighting? furniture? Mrs. Claus?   At about this point, I also thought it would be a good idea to find out how to make that icing they use to decorate cakes!

My first decorating project was so much fun.  I plan to make this a holiday tradition!  Next time maybe a whole gingerbread street.. no, a neighborhood, no.. a gingerbread town!  oooooh Gingerbread World!!!!!

THE best part of it all, was the amazing lil video Noodles just threw together.

Merry Happy Holidays, no matter when you’re reading this 🙂 I hope you watch the video and feel a lil warm and fuzzy, but not in a mouldy bacteria kinda way.

They Kill Lemons Here, Don’ t They

by Me on April 5, 2011

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I have always felt a connection to food I could never quite explain.  Around age 4 I started dreaming about food, and apparently talking my sleep too.  It was source of great amusement to my family. They  recorded it.  A tape recorder, remember cassette tapes?! I would be yelling and swearing, fighting off carrots.  AND it was a recurring dream no less!  My saying “fuck you carrots” and such, provided endless amusement to my brothers. And endless embarasement for me because my brothers played said recordings at every opportunity they could! And my adventures were not limited to vegetables, I dreamt and talked about all kinds of food.

In Grade 1, my very first few weeks of school there was upcoming sports day.  My brother told me that lettuce makes you run fast.  I had no reason to not believe him.  I knew foods had special powers, so it just made sense to me. So I ate all the lettuce my little heart and stomach could stand.  And I won the race!  Totally convinced I had a secret weapon, I was unstoppable after that.  I would sneak a piece of lettuce into my lunch box and just before race i would chomp down some lettuce and I was convinced I had super powers. I thought I was cheating, cause I could actually feel the moment when the lettuce kicks in and I felt like Im flying.  I won all my races.

Then one morning…..

The day of the big race… casually over breakfast, my brother tells me that lettuce doesnt make you run fast.

He laughed. I panicked.

I ate the lettuce. I lost the race.  I no longer had super powers.  And oh yes, everyone hated me cause our class lost because of me.

I think my life from that point forward has been a persuit of my super power/s

 

First time I saw Saxton Freymanns work I was blown away.

This is how Ive always seen food. . My little food friends!  As a kid I often had very different reasons for not wanting to eat my vegetables!

I have had the hardest time writing this post.  I think I’ve easily written chapters, and deleted and started over again because I think I just come off sounding like a crazy woman with a food problem.  And not in a good way.  I could get committed!  So I’ll just start sharing pics of my little food friends… until Ive figured out how to explain this passion in earth speak 🙂

 





Berry got butt.

Zesty goes to work.  More Zesty adventures to come…