Self-care for a woman and Cooking
Cooking is like an essential qualification to be a woman . Whether you are a SAHM or a working woman , you have to be skilled in cooking . You may have faced the questions like ‘Khana banana aata hai na?’ or the exclamatory comments like ‘What ? You don’t know how to cook !’ during the period when parents were searching a matrimonial match for you . People make you feel like you are incomplete without this skill .
Time , experience , hit-n-trial, mistakes , transform you into the skilled chef of your own family . Everybody looks towards you many times a day to satisfy their hunger . Not just basic hunger ,you have to take care of their emotional hunger too .
Everyday there is a big question your own mind asks – Aaj kya banaun ? or they may ask ‘ Aaj kya bnaya hai ?’
Whatever work you are doing or wherever you are , the kind of thoughts which are always at the back of your mind are :
What my husband or children would like to eat today ?
What’s to be given in their tiffins ?
Which healthy dish should I prepare for them ?
You search for recipes on youtube , consult your friends and even experiment on your own too .
But many of the times you make compromises cooking your own choices . With utmost family care on your mind , you forget taking care of yourself . You almost never cook the food which only you like . You are busy cooking the items which your family enjoys .
Don’t make compromises cooking your own choices . Adopt cooking as self-care formula .
Today’s life is busy and stressed . Many times you end up stress-eating too . You are continually working at home or office , cleaning your home , managing kitchen /grocery , taking care of family needs and what not . Amidst all this it’s very important to practice self-care .
Start to Practice self-care from your kitchen .
Cook your own choices too .
You are messing up in the kitchen without worrying about the little cuts or burns .
You are cooking varieties to make others happy . But what about your own happiness ? Who will take care of that ? Nobody except you . Just remember this .
Please don’t put your own choices on a back burner . Make your own eating choices a priority .
Only when you care for yourself , that you can care for others in a better way . After your own taste buds are happy , that you can make others’ happy too .
Bodies of Women over 40 demand special nutrition
Once women are around the age of 40 , their bodies need special nutrients which the other family members may not need . Keeping your health needs on top of the list , you should spend some extra special time for yourself in the kitchen .
Make turmeric milk to complete the need of body calcium or those joint aches that have started appearing .
Make special grandma style pinnis in winter to take care of your backache troubles .
Take enough fibre , proteins in your diet and never skip breakfast . You have to take care of your metabolism that starts slowing down over 40 .
Cooking just for yourself may be time-consuming but it’s the best gift you can give yourself
Women often don’t cook their own choices because they think it doubles their kitchen work . But the effort you put in for your own choices is worth. You may want to follow a diet plan for fitness but often leave the idea aside as you would have to cook separately just for yourself . But don’t forget how the end results would fill you with joy .This is the best gift you can give yourself . Go and start following the diet plan you have wanting for so long .
Cooking as Self-care for women
Cook for yourself – Enjoy and Improve your health
I am a die hard fan of mushrooms and nobody in my family eats even a bite of it . Earlier I never used to buy mushrooms for my kitchen and wait for the family to take me to a restaurant on someone’s birthday or anniversary . But now I always add mushrooms in my weekly vegetable list . I cook them just for myself . Mushrooms benefit me with vitamins , antioxidants and I feel happy too . Aur kya chahiye ? So cook your own choices , enjoy your food and also improve your health .
‘Put yourself first’ is a kind of meditation
Everybody needs those moments when you do something just for yourself . I know you love your family , your children very much but you know :
Putting yourself first is the need for your own physical and emotional balance . It’s a kind of meditation every woman should practice .
Start following this meditation in your kitchen now onwards .
Practicing Cooking as self-care can bless you with a graceful body
Women always want to look graceful , clean face , no darkness , zero wrinkles , slim body type , smooth hair , and what not . If you practice cooking as self-care , that’s the basic step for finding answer towards ‘How to love your body?’ Because diet plays a major role . Make a banana-oats-honey scrub for your face , prepare goond laddu to boost your stamina , or just make the yoghurt pudding to make yourself feel special . What I mean to say is that please please! Practice cooking as self-care .
You are the queen of your family . You must take very special care of yourself . Don’t neglect yourself . Self-care is very important in life . Find your own ways of practicing cooking as self-care .
Why not ask yourself everyday – Aaj apne liye kya banaun ?
Here is my own quote about cooking :
Cooking is not just about recipes, tiffins and hunger. It’s an experience of self-care and to be in love with yourself .
#Embrace40
Comments
Post a Comment