{"id":7249,"date":"2020-01-08T22:20:55","date_gmt":"2020-01-09T02:20:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/frommybowl.com\/?page_id=7249"},"modified":"2020-01-08T22:21:05","modified_gmt":"2020-01-09T02:21:05","slug":"my-food-philosophy","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/frommybowl.com\/about\/my-food-philosophy\/","title":{"rendered":"My Food Philosophy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a food blogger, my life revolves around food &#8212; between brainstorming, recipe testing, photographing, and sharing, it can be a pretty big mouthful.\u00a0<strong>Like most food bloggers\u00a0<\/strong>(and people), my relationship with food hasn&#8217;t\u00a0<em>always\u00a0<\/em>been the best. It&#8217;s been balanced, disordered, healthy, restrictive, obsessive, and pretty much everything in between.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Thankfully, I&#8217;m happy to say that my relationship with food is currently the <em>best it&#8217;s ever been<\/em>. Not to say I don&#8217;t struggle at times, but I&#8217;ve gotten a heck of a lot better at\u00a0<strong>truly listening to my body and giving it what it&#8217;s asking for<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>NOT the food I think it &#8220;should&#8221; have<\/li>\n<li>NOT the food society, and Instagram trend, or an unqualified blog article tells me I need to have<\/li>\n<li>and certainly NOT the food a random person promotes to me on social media because it makes them &#8220;thin&#8221; or &#8220;thick&#8221; or &#8220;beautiful&#8221; or\u00a0<em>whatever<\/em> &#8212; every body is different, and all foods are going to act differently inside of us too.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>How did I get here?<\/em> Through following a lot of body and food-positive accounts, doing the inner work, and<a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2s6QDXn\">\u00a0<strong>reading this book<\/strong><\/a>. I also\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=flwSMmJFuxI&amp;t=1s\">filmed a video<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>talking a little more about my journey, if you&#8217;d like to watch.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>As my relationship with food has changed over the years, so has this blog.<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6953\" src=\"http:\/\/frommybowl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/DSC06555.jpg\" alt=\"caitlin cuttting carrot on mandoline on wood cutting board\" width=\"4659\" height=\"5824\" data-pin-nopin=\"true\" srcset=\"https:\/\/frommybowl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/DSC06555.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/frommybowl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/DSC06555-400x500.jpg 400w, https:\/\/frommybowl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/DSC06555-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/frommybowl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/DSC06555-768x960.jpg 768w, https:\/\/frommybowl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/DSC06555-819x1024.jpg 819w, https:\/\/frommybowl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/DSC06555-1170x1463.jpg 1170w, https:\/\/frommybowl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/DSC06555-585x731.jpg 585w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 736px) 100vw, 736px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>From My Bowl<\/em> has always been full of easy-to-follow, vegan recipes that\u00a0<em>actually taste good<\/em>. Because that&#8217;s what I love! In saying that, though, I have to admit that some of the older recipes on this site were created from an orthorexic mindset. I still believe that they taste\u00a0<em>great<\/em>, but I also believe they could perhaps be\u00a0<em>better<\/em> if I had focused more on flavors rather than macronutrients and calories. As I have reflected on my past (and plan recipes for the future), I thought it would be best to share my food philosophy, as of the present moment.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Here are my PERSONAL takes on calories, fat, oil, and vegan recipes. In case you were wondering. And if you weren&#8217;t, please go to literally any other page on this blog and make yourself something tasty \ud83d\ude42<br \/>\n<\/strong><em>Please note: I am not a dietician or licensed health professional &#8211; these are merely my opinions.<\/em><\/p>\n<h3>ON CALORIES<\/h3>\n<p>I have\u00a0<strong>never posted the calorie count<\/strong> on my recipes, and I never intend to. Counting calories led me to a very dark place in my life &#8211; a place of excessive control, restriction, and negativity. While I am in a healthier place with food now (and don&#8217;t count calories), numbers can still be triggering for me sometimes. I would never want to trigger\u00a0<em>someone else,\u00a0<\/em>and personally believe that we should all go by fullness cues, not some random number. Also, serving sizes are TOTALLY arbitrary and should not be taken to heart. Like I just said &#8211; eat until you are full, not until you have hit a certain number\/portion size.<\/p>\n<p>If you like to count calories, or need to for some specific reason (and it doesn&#8217;t hurt you physically\/mentally), know that that&#8217;s cool too! There are plenty of free calorie-counters out there, such as\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cronometer.com\/\"><strong>Cronometer<\/strong><\/a>. If you&#8217;d like to find out the calorie content of a recipe you can plug all of the ingredients in there and you&#8217;ll get your answer!<\/p>\n<h3>ON OILS AND FAT<\/h3>\n<p><em>Fat tastes good<\/em>. It&#8217;s a fact &#8211; fat coats your mouth and allows you to taste and experience flavors more fully (and for a longer period of time). The good news is that\u00a0<em>fat is also good for you<\/em>, and a balanced diet should contain\u00a0<em>some<\/em> level of fat.<\/p>\n<p>When I first started this blog I was *legitimately* scared of fat, particularly oil. Personally, I don&#8217;t think that&#8217;s healthy. All of my recipes were completely oil-free, and pretty low in fat. This began to change as I incorporated more fat into my diet (for personal health reasons) &#8212; I gradually incorporated more whole-food fats into many of my recipes, but still skipped the oil.<\/p>\n<p>Nowadays, I use oil a good amount in my personal cooking, and really enjoy it! It makes a lot of food taste better, and allows for certain textures and flavors that oil-free food simply cannot replicate. You can make your own personal decision on whether you think oil is &#8220;healthy&#8221; or not, but I no longer feel afraid to use it (again: good thing, no?).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Moving forward,\u00a0<em>From My Bowl<\/em><\/strong> <strong>will share recipes that contain oil<\/strong>. I feel kind of silly for making a big deal out of this, but there\u00a0<em>is<\/em> a pretty big oil-free vegan community out there, and I know a lot of you (hi!) appreciate that my recipes are oil-free.\u00a0That being said, I will still continue to offer an oil-free substitution for every recipe that I post, as long as it is possible from a culinary standpoint.<\/p>\n<h3>ON VEGAN RECIPES<\/h3>\n<p>I am vegan for the animals, for the planet, and for my health.\u00a0<strong>All of the recipes on this blog will\u00a0<em>always\u00a0<\/em>be vegan, but you don&#8217;t need to be a vegan to make them<\/strong>. Whether you&#8217;re fully committed to a plant-based diet or simply plant-curious, there&#8217;s a space here for you \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/\/www.pinterest.com\/pin\/create\/button\/\" data-pin-do=\"buttonBookmark\" data-pin-color=\"red\" data-pin-height=\"128\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/assets.pinterest.com\/images\/pidgets\/pinit_fg_en_rect_red_28.png\" \/><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a food blogger, my life revolves around food &#8212; between brainstorming, recipe testing, photographing, and sharing, it can be a pretty big mouthful.\u00a0Like most food bloggers\u00a0(and people), my relationship with food hasn&#8217;t\u00a0always\u00a0been the best. 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