Is Cooking a Lost Art?

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Packaged foods have become the norm. People think that buying a box from the store will save them time, and money. It may save you time but not necessarily money, and is not very healthy.

Packaged foods make it too easy for people to deal with a hectic life. Its just too easy to come home from work and pop something into the microwave. If you grew up with packaged foods you become accustomed to the sight, taste, and look of a frozen meal. When you move out on your own, you may not think twice about walking down the frozen food isles, with their variety of different prepared meals, made in a factory.

If you are one of those people. You may want to stop to think how you are harming yourself and your pocket book.

Everything ads up over time. The average frozen meal costs about $4 to $6. If you eat a frozen meal at lunch and then again one at dinner time, you will spend about $224 to $336 a month.

Aside from begin expensive, frozen meals are unhealthy, and really don't taste very good , if you make your own meals. Packaged foods don't contain many of the vitamins and nutrients, you get from a home cooked meal.



People think that it may take time to prepare a home cooked meal, but this is a common misrepresentation. You can prepare an average meal in about 30 minutes.

For inspiration take a look at "just in time", by Rachael Ray. Get ideas for making meals in as little as 15 minutes, or take your time and prepare 30 to 60 minute meals. These are delicious meal ideas you can do yourself at home.

To get idea's, start following the food network. Buy a binder, and fill it with interesting recipes that can be found on the internet. Think of what you want to make and just do it.

Before you walk down that isle, take the time to think. Walk around the grocery store, and stay out of the isles. Think about what you can do with the fresh vegetables, fruits and meat.

Find a recipe before you go shopping, and it will make it easier. After becoming familiar with the recipe, change it around, and make it your own.



Don't be afraid to try new vegetables and fruits you haven't seen before. Taste everything, and don't be afraid to experiment once you are comfortable preparing your own food, and most importantly, have fun.

Think about your pocket book and your taste buds when you go out shopping. Stay out of the processed food isles.

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Is Anxiety a Cop Out?

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Anxiety. Everyone has heard the term. It is becoming more common place, and accepted by physicians. It is a real condition; however, some people may be taking advantage of it to get out of working for a living, like everyone else.

Anxiety is a psychological condition characterized by feelings of worry, uneasiness and dread. It should not be confused with fear. Anxiety is described as more of a feeling of impending doom.

The condition is considered to be a normal reaction to stress. It may help and individual to be ready to cope, with a stressful situation. For some individuals it can become overwhelming, and it becomes classified as a disorder.

It is a condition covering many types of illness. These mental illness's only became accepted toward the end of the 19th century. Anxiety is defined by mental apprehension, physical tension, physical symptoms, and dissociative anxiety. Visit, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anxiety_disorder, for more information.



According to and article written by, Kismet Baun with an Introduction By Dr. Taylor Alexander http://www.ontario.cmha.ca/about_mental_health.asp?cID=48249,until recently people diagnosed with mental illness were given little hope of every living a normal life. Today, there is hope for a full recovery.

Everyone feels anxious from time to time. Stressful situations like meeting obligations, deadlines, and dealing with life's small issues, such as keeping up with your house cleaning, making supper, doing your laundry and picking up the groceries, can make people feel nervous, and overwhelmed.

About 1 in 4 people experience anxiety some time in their lives; one, in ten currently have an anxiety order. Many people think they can get over these disorders by themselves. Usually, this is not the case. Fortunately, there are many treatments available.

Researchers don't know exactly what causes some people to have anxiety disorder, but they do no there are various causes involved. Some people may think that some situations are more dangerous than others, like flying, or riding a bus. There are others that may of had a bad experience, like being bitten by a dog, when they were a child, and fear that it will happen again.

More and more, is becoming known about anxiety disorder; however, it can be misunderstood and misdiagnosed. People could convince their doctors that they have anxiety attacks, and not be in the condition to hold a job.

Symptoms vary depending on the type of anxiety disorder. They could be feelings of panic, fear or uneasiness, uncontrollable, obsessive thoughts, nightmares, or ritualistic behaviours. These are just some of the many symptoms that may characterize this disorder.

Getting diagnosed with anxiety disorder can be a an arduous, uncertain process, but a new blood test can detect these disorders in hours, according to scientists at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

After a review of the psychiatric history of over 450 patients, found by checking for a high level of acetylcholinesterase (AChE), a blood protein people release when under stress, they were able to diagnose these disorders about 90% of the time. There are some people that may be honestly trying to fake anxiety attacks; however, the majority of them may indeed be telling the truth about what their feeling. Since there is treatment available, it should not prevent an individual from working.

Before writing this blog, I was unconvinced that anxiety is real. After doing the research, and finding out that there may be a simple blood test , I am much more convinced that this is a real condition, and people are not faking it.

Always Finish What you Start

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Always Finish What you Start

This is going to be a short blog. I haven't written any for a while.

Over the year I have started many projects, but allot of them have been left behind.

Left behind, like a child's toy underneath a piece of furniture. Leftovers of a forgotten time. Memories of the way things were.

Time does not stop. Its the way we manage our time that helps us get the things that we started done, and move forward. Some people are better at managing time than others.

I've never been very good at managing my time. There is always something that comes up. It could be somebody at the door, somebody calling me up, or the cleaning that is waiting to be done, and is calling out to me in the back of my mind. "Get off your ass and clean me.", or the grass needs to be cut, the bedroom needs to be painted, or the laundry needs to be done.





To finish what you started, you need to give whatever you started a half hour or hour each day, and no more. When that half hour or hour is over, that's it. It's time to move on.

While your working on it, you need to be completely focused on the task at hand, and not worry about the other things that may be in your mind. Don't give up and just keep going, over time you will finish.

In conclusion, I will take my own advice and finish what I started, and post this short blog.





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