Human Chameleons Stay the Course

PR Log (Press Release) – Nov 12, 2008 – My husband and I cooked together often before we adopted our little girl.  We used to spend all day cooking for dinner parties with friends and enjoyed finding recipes, planning the menu, shopping and working on the presentation. It was fun to experiment with ethnic foods and easy, gourmet American cuisine. We both had demanding careers and cooking together gave us a change of pace from the deadlines and pressures of our professional lives.  

Life is game of adapting to changes though.  Just when I figured out how to manage my life something changed and I needed to find new solutions.  We adopted a little girl, which was a wonderful, joyous, life-enriching event that required many changes.  One big change was that we had less time to spend all day in the kitchen cooking, yet we still wanted to eat similar meals.  Also, instead of spending those evenings with friends our joy was spending time as a family.  When our little darling learned to say “NO”, we discovered that she did not like some of the foods that we did.  My husband and I did not want to sacrifice our healthy, diverse diet for macaroni & cheese and pancakes and  I struggled to find nutritious recipes we all liked.  I often cooked separate meals for her, not because I wanted to, but because it was my only solution at the time.

More changes tested my ability to adapt. My husband was diagnosed with diabetes.  Many of the recipe arrows that I had in my quiver did not work any longer.  I had to find some new solutions to feed my family and I did not have a lot of time to find them.  There were not many cookbooks with ideas for kid foods that incorporated the needs of a diabetic.  So, I modified recipes to cut down on sugars and carbohydrates and  changed the presentation to make the food attractive to my daughter.  I also tried keeping meals really basic which made my life a lot easier.  What I needed was a way to find good tasting, nutritious recipes that we could all eat and ideas for presenting the food in way that my daughter liked.  It was a tall order!

Fortunately, web-based sites nowadays offer a great deal of help for such dilemmas.  I would have saved a lot of time and frustration if I had used a web-based company like eatricious to search by dietary restrictions, food preferences and kid-friendly meals.  Cooking tasty, nutritious food for your family can sometimes be challenging, but is a breeze when you have the right tools.  Budding food and healthy lifestyle portal, eatricious, has many of these tools available so that as you change the colors of your life – like a chameleon – you do not have to sacrifice your healthy lifestyle.  For more information and healthy recipe ideas see http://eatricious.com.  Remember, eat nutritious, eat delicious!