All of this resonates DEEPLY. Years ago (pre-child; former freelancing life), I subscribed to a CSA box and so many of my staple meals to cook were from Vegan Yum Yum, which is a fabulous cookbook of "decadent (but doable)" recipes. Most things in it took me at least an hour or more to make--we're talking homemade sauces, from-scratch gnocchi and elaborate casseroles and from-scratch samosas made with spices I ground myself with a mortar and pestle--and at the time, I couldn't even imagine why anyone would eat crappy convenience food if/when this sort of wonderful "slow food" was instead an option. Plus, cooking was fun!
This is all so hilariously far from my reality now. My husband and I use our Instant Pot twice a week to cook chicken breasts and a vat of fresh pinto beans, and I make a weekly batch of Spanish rice. The giant Tupperwares of those staple foods are pretty much what we then eat out of all week. The vegetables I eat are all either Costco salad mixes or microwaveable bags of frozen broccoli. Once I stopped judging myself for the boringness of our meals these days, I found this all to be deeply liberating and time-freeing.
I appreciate the inspiration to adopt a similar approach with my clothes! I'm totally a jeans, T-shirt and hoodie kind of girl by nature, and have probably wasted so much mental energy over the years trying to force myself to do something more interesting with my appearance. Who am I trying to impress anyway?!
Alas, the memories of elaborate homemade sauces with every meal! I have those, too 😂🫠 it’s not boring if it’s serving you and that goes for pinto beans and hoodies!
All of this resonates DEEPLY. Years ago (pre-child; former freelancing life), I subscribed to a CSA box and so many of my staple meals to cook were from Vegan Yum Yum, which is a fabulous cookbook of "decadent (but doable)" recipes. Most things in it took me at least an hour or more to make--we're talking homemade sauces, from-scratch gnocchi and elaborate casseroles and from-scratch samosas made with spices I ground myself with a mortar and pestle--and at the time, I couldn't even imagine why anyone would eat crappy convenience food if/when this sort of wonderful "slow food" was instead an option. Plus, cooking was fun!
This is all so hilariously far from my reality now. My husband and I use our Instant Pot twice a week to cook chicken breasts and a vat of fresh pinto beans, and I make a weekly batch of Spanish rice. The giant Tupperwares of those staple foods are pretty much what we then eat out of all week. The vegetables I eat are all either Costco salad mixes or microwaveable bags of frozen broccoli. Once I stopped judging myself for the boringness of our meals these days, I found this all to be deeply liberating and time-freeing.
I appreciate the inspiration to adopt a similar approach with my clothes! I'm totally a jeans, T-shirt and hoodie kind of girl by nature, and have probably wasted so much mental energy over the years trying to force myself to do something more interesting with my appearance. Who am I trying to impress anyway?!
Alas, the memories of elaborate homemade sauces with every meal! I have those, too 😂🫠 it’s not boring if it’s serving you and that goes for pinto beans and hoodies!