Sharing a Healthy Plate

<span style="font-size: large;">   Last night I attended a small gathering of doctorate students in Public Health at my university.  We had a pot luck appetizer theme and I took that as an opportunity to get out my tulip platter and wow people with nutrient dense, calorie light treats.  I took a picture and post it below so that you might consider bringing a healthy tray to your next social event.</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;">   Tonight I met a different set of friends.  We are planning our high school reunion.  Our meeting was at a restaurant and someone had preordered a few appetizers.  They were all calorically dense and I chose to just have a beer (:)). So on occasion, I DO drink my calories, but for some, alcohol is health promoting.  This is never true about sugar sweetened beverages! </span><br /><span style="font-size: large;">   Tying these two evenings together is another true thing about me.  I do not eat food to make other people feel comfortable.  I eat when  it suits me to eat (which is related to what the food is and whether or not I am hungry). As you might also know, I don't take kindly to 'food pushers'. {food pushers are those that seem to feel uncomfortable by other people's not eating, or not eating "more"} And yet I am as much a food pusher as any body else and have to restrain my own impulses.[It's a phenomenon of our broader culture - of many cultures]  Last night, if someone had not made a plate of food at our buffet table, I found myself <i>wanting</i> to ask, "Aren't you going to eat something?"  And I did offer to make a plate for one guest in particular -(her hands were full with her twins!).  It's funny isn't it.  In my defense, I never push things that are not part of a quality diet :)</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;">   Here is the tray - which has Wasa crackers and two flavors of Light Laughing Cow cheese wedges (they do not come that way, I bought two and mixed them), grapes in personal sized bunches (I cut them that way), vegetarian eggrolls cut into 50 calorie servings, and my own blueberry cake squares.</span><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeP4d4UeEcHTMFx5ZZ7jOxqgXym1ANpeauTIEIENmRwcVV0cp1Odf2jSvgtCycaNiYhmut66bzRdQs8kkDNf_dt1EneYUcSFJFNormmyFfHlJd-xpaohScVcuEQpEZVLYPfD_4K7alzbS4/s1600/healthy+tray.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="272" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeP4d4UeEcHTMFx5ZZ7jOxqgXym1ANpeauTIEIENmRwcVV0cp1Odf2jSvgtCycaNiYhmut66bzRdQs8kkDNf_dt1EneYUcSFJFNormmyFfHlJd-xpaohScVcuEQpEZVLYPfD_4K7alzbS4/s640/healthy+tray.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Beneath those goodies is a great picture of a tulip - I love tulips.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span>

Sharing a Healthy Plate

   Last night I attended a small gathering of doctorate students in Public Health at my university.  We had a pot luck appetizer theme and I...

Read more »