With the busy holiday season just around the corner, take a moment to tune in with mindful cooking and eating practices and recipes, and embrace a calmer and more present way of feeding yourself and your loved ones!
Sit back and reflect on where your mind wanders when you are selecting and preparing ingredients, cooking, waiting for Thermomix® to finish a recipe step, or while eating. To embrace mindfulness, focus on being present in the here and the now, rather than being on autopilot. We invite you to look for a deeper connection to food and the overall cooking process. No hurry. No judgement. No pressure. Just ingredients, kitchen utensils, your hands, and your mind. Before getting started, be sure to set your intention and purpose!
• When practicing mindfulness in the kitchen, treat cooking like an act of self-care, and embrace the beauty of a home-cooked meal.
• Focus on one recipe step at a time, as each step will engage different senses.
• If you’ve chosen a recipe with a lot of active time, focus on all 5 senses throughout the cooking experience.
• If you’ve chosen a recipe with a lot of cooking time, sit back and focus on the constantly changing smells and sounds happening in your kitchen while Thermomix® cooks for you.
• Get those creative juices flowing and prepare something you’ve never tried to cook before! You can even try creating your own recipe with Created recipes.
Many people associate this saying with physical health, but did you know that the food you eat also influences your mental wellbeing? Always be sure to consume plenty of body and soul boosting ingredients full of nutrients, antioxidants, healthy fats, dietary fibres, and more!
