Parvati Magazine December 2013 - Remembrance | Page 16
NUTRITION
REMEMBERING
The Foods of Seasons Past
NUTRITION
For many of us, these
kinds of traditional homemade foods represent
love, comfort and warmth
amongst our youth. The
remembrance of certain
dishes and traditional
meals can evoke harmonious joyous memories, almost as if we have
turned back the hands of
time and were standing
in these very moments of
our past.
Conditioning
Past
From
Our
Our nutritional instincts
and desires have been
conditioned by our past.
Food, essentially nourishment, can become a
portal for love depending
on the feelings we connect with it. We often associate certain foods with
love, caring and even
worthiness and the reality is that the tastes of our
childhood can prime us
for a lifetime relationship
with food.
Our food experiences
from the past can influence how we feel about
ourselves, how we view
M
any of our earliest memories in life come from food. With the cool crisp breeze of fall
in the air and golden hues of fiery orange and crimson red leaves sweeping the sidewalks, I have become nostalgic about past childhood memories of my fall favourite foods.
Lazy summer days, lemonade and barbecues are let go to embrace roasted root vegetables, homemade soups and stews and deliciously sweet maple pumpkin pie made from
scratch.
Food & Early Memories
I find my mind filled with memories of baking cookies in the kitchen with my Mom, learning
how to roll out dough in preparation for our apple pies, chopping onions to flavour our butternut squash soup and toasting pumpkin seeds for school snacks.
our bodies and even how
we respect and honour
our health.
A Source of Self-Love
Food itself can become
a vehicle for our internal
sense of self, value and
self worth. When we associate these foods from our
childhood memories to
primarily represent love,
we can fall into the trap
of filling ourselves up with
sugary sweetness and savoury salt to stimulate that
same loving feeling we
once felt as children.
I think it is important that
we indulge in our past
comfort foods with moderation and know that we
can access these feelings
of self-love anytime we
choose to and it does not
have to be through food.
Also, we can remember
that it is not just the food
itself that brings forth
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