The Importance of Earnestly Plating Your Food.

After all those cookies and in keeping with my schitzo relationship to food, its time for another post on: my diet. No, I don't want to talk about the food itself or even my progress. (Its been GREAT, thank you for asking.) Lately, I have just been thinking about the importance of making a nice plate for myself before I eat it the food. Seems simple enough but how many people actually do it? Lets face it, if you are dining solo or eating diet food its an easy task to let slip by. I've been thinking of it lately as an act of 'self love' so I wanted to pass that thought along in the hopes that more will adopt it because it is really so simple.

Each day I've been get a bag of food delivered from the folks at The Fresh Diet and then I have to actually eat it. It comes in several plastic containers which are actually quite easy to eat out of but I've been taking great pains to actually plate the food and try to make it look as nice as the marketing photos do. These shots are from my last two dinners. All they are missing is the parsley!

Greek Meatballs with Green Beans and Black Bean Orzo

Chili with Roasted Brussels Sprouts and Asparagus Spears

(I don't get much light in my kitchen and I've been trying to learn natural light photography -- my photos have been suffering lately so I hope I master it soon! )

I recall my grandmother who lived alone for the 40 years of my life I knew her -- she would make an entire formal dinner tray each night for herself. Her tray would make a room service tray at The Browns Hotel look bad! Her good china and silver was her "everyday" china and silver and she would garnish her plate and put a flower on her tray without fail. Every night. I once asked her why and she said, "who better than me to do this for?"

Indeed. Now go buy some parsley.

Note: this post got mentioned on The Fresh Diet Blog!