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72. Slow meal · Just For Today

Jessica Figueroa: Hello, listeners. Good morning. I don't know whether you just got out of bed, or I don't know if you're brushing your teeth, or I don't know if you're on your way somewhere. But today we're gonna spend two minutes together just opening our mind to a new thought or a new idea to help improve our life. So today we're gonna talk about the difference between a slow meal at home and a fast meal and a quick meal. We all know in our fast paced society that we can make quick meals. If you're a mom, I'm a mom of three girls. And I can really bust out a quick dinner on the table in record time. I don't, I've gotten so good at it in my 16 years of parenting, I don't even have to have a plan. I can just open the fridge, freezer, pantry, see what I have, whip something together. Before you know it, there's a protein, a veggie, and a carb on the plate. And there is a time and a season for that. But there's also the time and the season to make a slow meal, whether it's the soup that takes hours or the prepping and chopping and seasoning and basting required. But don't forget to make a slow meal. The one that takes two hours. Because while it's so great that I can take an organic bag of vegetables, steam it or throw it in the microwave, saute it a little bit and have it on the plate, there's also value in getting the head of broccoli and rinsing it off and cutting it off. There's also the value in washing things yourself instead of buying it. What about buying the whole big carrot and using your potato peeler And peeling them and chopping the whole carrot into slices. So don't forget to find time to spend time with food when you're making it. And it's not always possible, but you know your days. So in the next seven days, do you have a day that you can make a slow meal? And I want you to, and if you don't know a slow meal to make, I want you to look it up. Have you always wanted to make a great tomato soup or a chicken soup? Or have you ever wanted to make a more involved dish? Like something that requires three or four steps of cooking and then baking and then cooking again. So today I want you to think in the next seven days of making a slow meal. And I want you to set the stage for that slow meal. I want you to not be in a rush. What does that look like? Is that for you something to drink while you're cooking or a certain music to listen to, or clearing the area and making sure the kitchen's sparkling? But just for today, I want you to plan a slow cooking meal and then enjoy the process. Because cooking, while it can be done quickly and it's certainly nourishing, it can also nourish your heart, mind, and soul, the process of preparing food for the people you love. And it does that same thing in a quick meal, but you could really enjoy the process. It's like stopping and smelling the flowers, but the cooking version. So just for today, you're gonna plan a meal that's gonna take you an hour to two hours to cook. And you're gonna plan it and you're gonna enjoy it because you're gonna think ahead and know that you have the time to do it. And if you can involve someone else in it, even better. If you need to do it yourself, That's great too. But just for today, we're gonna not only focus on quick meals, we're gonna focus on a slow meal. Together, slow meal by quick meal, all of our days go together like a beautiful quilt to make this wonderful life. Have a great day, guys. I'll see you tomorrow.