The secret is patience
“Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.”
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Simple, healthy, tastes great
Today I want to pass on another quick, healthy item for you to snack on. Sorry, you can’t buy it, but you can make it in minutes. And it is so worth those few minutes!
The snack: roasted butternut squash seeds. No, not pumpkin seeds (though those are good also and good for you). If you don’t already eat butternut squash, search for a recipe that you’ll enjoy. It tastes great, is low in fat, delivers a nice dose of fiber, and is rich in antioxidants and phytonutrients.
When you cut open the squash for your recipe, don’t toss the seeds inside. Instead rinse them off, sprinkle them with sea salt, scatter them on a cookie sheet and roast them for a mere 5 minutes in a 300 degree oven. They taste amazing! I wish there were more seeds in a squash just so I could have extra. And they are so very simple to make. That’s a win all around — great taste, healthy, simple.
I bring you these ideas because I want to get it out of people’s heads that eating healthy has to be difficult. Hard to do, like eating wallpaper paste, expensive, etc. It’s not hard to incorporate healthy items like this into what you eat. And then you still can indulge in a decadent piece of chocolate cake!
It’s about balance, and perhaps that’s the real message here. It’s not all or nothing. I hate to see the black and white approach — it’s not all perfect health food all the time or deep fried whatever all the time. When you try to be perfect, what will happen is you fall off the perfect wagon … hard. And then you’re eating chocolate cake 24/7. But choose healthy, tasteful foods the majority of the time while still allowing the chocolate cake here and there, and then you have a recipe for health success that lasts a lifetime.
Renew your dreams
“Dreams are renewable.
No matter what our age or condition,
there are still untapped possibilities within us
and new beauty waiting to be born.”
~ Dr. Dale Turner
