Years ago while in journalism school, I was bothered by how frequently journalists would say that they’re bad at math. Professors would start the self-deprecating jokes, and students nodded along.To be sure, I struggle to do arithmetic in my head. To this day, calculating ...
How to Adopt A Growth Mindset For Cooking
Success at the dining table starts before getting into the kitchen.
Understanding the psychology of eating and how to develop a growth mindset is foundational to cooking for yourself no matter the stress, deadlines, or drama evolving in your life. These skills are just as critical as practical skills like knife techniques and ingredients knowledge.
Let's explore how to budget your time, save mental energy, and avoid sabotaging yourself.
The Power of Your Eating Mindset
Do you know someone who gets hangry? Come 11:30 a.m. or 6:15 p.m., if you don’t feed this person, he begins to get irritable and unresponsive. Doing anything hard is asking to get into a fight.Maybe that person is you? ;)In my life, that person is my ordinarily ...
How to Build Community With: Meetups
Ever since I started co-hosting the Stanford off-shoot of the Financial Independence and Early Retirement Meetup, I have been amazed by how easy it is to get strangers to show up and talk about their personal and financial lives. There's a thirst for implementable personal ...
Could You Be Sabotaging Yourself By Eating Food Labeled “Healthy”?
Does seeing twisted garlic-ginger butternut squash on the menu make your mouth water?What about slow-roasted caramelized zucchini bites?Or are you more likely to leap at the chance to try butternut squash with no added sugar?What about nutritious green ...
Which Helps You Lose More Weight, Low-Fat Or Low-Carb Diet?
I was at a party recently listening to an amusing squabble over low-carb and low-fat diets. Of course, the squabblers didn’t realize that’s what they were debating. Rather, the arguments sounded like the passive-aggressive quips I fondly remember during the political tip-toeing ...
The Tale of Two Eaters
Let’s begin with story time where we meet two characters: Aye and Bee. Meet Aye Aye loves shopping at grocery stores. Walking from aisle to aisle, she derives pleasure from finding new treasures. A new brand of soy milk is on sale. There’s a blend of nut butters she’s never ...
Why We Stopped Weekly Batch Cooking
Have you ever gotten food poisoning or a stomach bug so bad you had to get an IV?I found myself in this situation for the first and only time two years ago.What happened? In 2016, we became avid batch cookers. It began with our Costco membership. Whoa, 6 pounds of pork ...
Our #1 Food Problem in 2017
Our biggest food problem in 2017 was spending too much time cooking. Hear Me Out You might be thinking, “that’s what you signed up for when you started a food website!! You nincompoop.”Well, yes that’s true. But I am not counting any of the publishing tasks related to this ...
