New Beginnings

I have decided to change this blog. Now, instead of personally logging my exercise and diet routine, I will share recipes of healthy meals so that others can learn new, refreshing ways to eat and still be happy.

Here's the story: I love eating. However, as I grow older, my tastes have changed and I have found myself craving more and more healthy foods and less and less fatty, greasy foods. My husband and I have been eager to eat healthy meals, but sadly, it has been very difficult for me to find very many meals that leave our hearts, minds, and stomachs happy. 

Here's the thing: My husband and I are NOT vegetarians, but we do like to eat more meals with vegetables and less meals with meat. Don't get me wrong: we love steak and burgers, but those are nice to eat about once a month (if that). The rest of the time, we want to eat HEALTHY, and to us, red meats are too greasy and heavy.

I love reading recipe books and going to recipe websites to find new, exciting meals. Like I said, I love eating! However, I have been getting more and more frustrated in my search for healthy foods. For example, I will look at the soup section, thinking, 'soup is healthy' and to my disgust, most of the soups that I look at contain beef, bacon, velveeta, sausage, or something else heavy and non-healthy sounding that makes my stomach curdle while just reading about the recipe! I have wasted many hours of my life trying to find good meals. I usually love reading recipes, but only if I get results!

Thus, I finally decided that it is possible that other people out there are in want of healthy meals and that maybe I can help. After poring over recipes for days and days of my life, I have gathered a small but growing amount of recipes that use lots of veggies and less meat and grease. I will post these recipes in this blog, so that maybe other people who read my blog can rejoice and make their bodies happy while eating delicious AND healthy meals.

A few things about me that you need to know:

1.) I LOVE cheese.

I love good cheese, not that nasty processed velveeta stuff. So many of my recipes have cheese in them. I am not 'guaranteeing' that cheese is healthy, and I am sure more healthy-obsessed people will tell me that cheese intake should be limited. However, I like eating and I like cheese, so I eat a lot of meals with cheese in it. Deal with it.

2.) I LOVE broth-based soups.

Many of these meals are soups, with a clear broth base. It has been very hard for me to find many broth soups that are healthy, which really surprised me. I could probably eat soup every day (and cheese) for the rest of my life and I would be very happy. So you have been warned: many recipes are soups!

3.) I am NOT creative enough to make my own recipes!

Here's the problem: I know what I like, but I have NO clue how to add what I like together to make a yummy, healthy meal. So all of these recipes are taken from somewhere. I claim no rights to the creation of these recipes. I wish I could come up with my own recipes, but I cannot. What I promise, is that I will tell you where I got the meal idea. I may not make my own recipes, but I do eventually add to the recipes and make them my own. I will give you my custom additions to already published recipes. That's all I can do.

There are more things about me, but I think they will become evident from the recipes and comments that I write down in this blog from now on. If you have a healthy recipe that you don't mind sharing, feel free to email them to me or contact me! I love trying new foods, though I do admit that I am a bit picky about my foods as well...

~Raven