Calling all Moms, Mr. Moms, caregivers, anyone in crisis with time restraints, or a busy spiritual lifestyle. Read up!\u00a0Do you wish you had more time to cook healthy meals? If the kitchen is the heart of our home, \u00a0warmed it with spiritual love, devotion, grace, and \u00a0good food. Whether you are rich and famous or just making ends meet you have to eat.<\/p>\n
Let\u2019s enjoy healthy cooking from a new perspective; easy, speedy and spiritual. Let\u2019s grace our meals.<\/strong><\/p>\n When crisis management and lack of time take precedence in our lives, everything else must be re-prioritized including family, home, work, and cooking, which often gets pushed to the end of the line. After all you have endured, including a cranky belly from stress, we need a belly-pleaser cooking column that meets our needs, expectations and time restrictions.<\/p>\n Every cooking column should have a purpose and a goal.\u00a0 Mine is to compete and beat the poor nutrition, speed and simplicity of fast-foods by offering an alternative: a multimedia column that incorporates word, video, radio, and spirituality, to show readers how to follow simple recipes that take fifteen minutes or less to prepare from start to finish.<\/p>\n This column will also contain calorie, protein, and nutritional count information for faster, easier and better diets that allow you to meet your individual needs. Nutritional details are an estimate based on meals for two, should only be used as a guide for approximation and are based on a 2000 calorie diet.<\/p>\n My goal is to make it easy and desirable for everyone, including people who think they don\u2019t like to cook, to prepare and eat healthy food: the building block for daily physical and mental health. Remember our bodies are the temple of the Lord.<\/p>\n Remember our bodies are the temple of the Lord. Keep your temple and the temples of your family healthy.<\/p>\n This cooking column is dedicated \u00a0to anyone in crisis, especially women who are often raising their families alone while undergoing treatment for an array of \u00a0health issues, yet continue to \u00a0\u00a0put their children\u2019s needs first. \u00a0Not only do they bring home the bacon, they cook it, too. I want to make cooking easier, healthier and quicker for them.<\/p>\n The idea for the cookbook recipes used in this column came about in my breast cancer radiation discussion group concerning food preparation and eating during the time restraints of treatment.\u00a0 As a three-time breast cancer survivor whose dreams diagnosed my illness (see my Soul column), the women in my cancer groups became extended family. We shared a<\/p>\n We shared a fox-hole in the war against cancer. My heart ached for my girlfriend\/patients who came in for therapy during work-lunch-breaks and discussed which fast food restaurant drive-through window they should choose for speedy service after collecting their children from school, soccer practice, ballet lessons and piano recitals. Unfortunately, more than half of them were single parents, deserted by their spouses after diagnosis. By the end of the<\/p>\n By the end of the day they were \u00a0too tired to even sit in their car \u00a0and wait for food to be handed out through the window, and too nauseous from treatment, stress, depression, and fatigue to eat it when they got home.\u00a0 When I told one \u00a0mother that none of \u00a0her fast food \u00a0choices were good choices for food , she replied with a painful truth that broke my heart.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m alone. My grocery money is very tight now while going through divorce proceedings. At the end of the day, I\u2019m too tired to cook. When I was waiting in the fast-food drive- through last night I fell asleep in the car. Thank God I had it in <\/em>park because I would have rolled into the back end of the car in front of me. My ten-year-old son shook me awake when motorists behind us started honking. I was so exhausted I didn\u2019t even hear them. I\u2019m trying to keep my children\u2019s lives as normal as possible during this crisis. I pray for help <\/em>everyday. It\u2019s hard because my kids see my bald head, red burn marks on my chest, and lack of energy. \u00a0And the fact that they think Daddy doesn\u2019t love us anymore doesn\u2019t help. \u00a0I have to keep my job for my insurance in order to have treatment, so cooking is not a priority in my life.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n Her answer brought silent nods of understanding from others in the room and tears to my eyes. \u00a0It also birthed the idea of my Quickie Healthy Cooking for Busy People<\/em><\/strong> cookbook which has now become part of the weekly C3TV show Wicked Housewives On Cape Cod Cook<\/em><\/strong> .<\/p>\n I\u2019m not a certified nutritionist and I don\u2019t believe you must be one to know healthy food. We are bombarded daily with enough magazine articles, TV commercials and infomercials concerning diet, nutrition and fast-food to get a Ph.D on the subject by osmosis. We know what <\/em><\/strong>to do to eat well.\u00a0 Now, I\u2019m going to show you how<\/em><\/strong> to do it.<\/p>\n Healthy Cooking Tip of the Day<\/strong><\/p>\n Did you know that enjoying a small bowl of veggie soup with meals boosts the liver\u2019s ability to break down acids, helping to keep cellular PH more alkaline? One of the reasons patients are given blood tests during treatment is to monitor liver functions because toxins (and chemicals) are filtered through the liver. Imagine how much healthier that little soup appetizer \u00a0can make your family.\u00a0 Give your liver a break.\u00a0 Eat vegetable soup.<\/p>\n Quickie Healthy Easy Cooking\u00a0 is as easy as 1-2-3.\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n 1.) A yummy slow-cooker-stew thrown over<\/p>\n 2.) rice from the rice cooker is a meal fit for a king that the whole family can enjoy again<\/p>\n 3.) days later when thrown into the blender for a tasty stewed vegetable soup paired with simple sandwiches or warm crusty whole grain bread. Soup saturated bread is easier to swallow when suffering from mouth sores, and will warm the cockles of your heart.<\/p>\n One last important word of advice before you go grocery shopping; READ LABLES!\u00a0 If you can\u2019t understand the labels, don\u2019t put them in your mouth\u2026 put them back on the shelf and keep looking.<\/p>\n You probably wonder what could possibly be better than picking up fast-food for dinner.\u00a0 How about opening your door to the healthy aromas of a fully cooked meal?<\/p>\n You\u2019re tired. Go home. \u00a0Dinner\u2019s waiting! That\u2019s what I call cookin\u2019 right. And remember to say grace before you eat. Blessing your food brings God into the equation which can right any wrong, even a less than perfect diet.\u00a0If water can be turned to wine with a prayer,\u00a0imagine what prayer can do to your meal.<\/p>\n Amen.<\/p>\n CLICK LINK TO LISTEN:Kathleen O\u2019Keefe-Kanavos 30 Min Cooking Interview on Lori Boyle Radio Show<\/p>\n http:\/\/www.blogtalkradio.com\/wickedhousewivesoncapecodradiont\/2014\/12\/17\/lori-boyle-radio-kat-okeefe-kanavos-cooks-quick-healthy<\/a><\/p>\n Picture credit:\u00a0keijj44 pixabay.com football-team-1529533_1280 CCO Public Domain, ree Commercial Use, No Attribution Required<\/p>\n Kathleen (Kat) O\u2019Keefe-Kanavos-three time cancer survivor<\/a> whose dreams diagnosed her illness, TV\/Radio Host\/Producer of Wicked Housewives On Cape Cod\u2122<\/a> , \u00a0Kat Kanavos Show<\/a> , Patheos, <\/a>Quora<\/a>, Medium<\/a>, Internationally Syndicated\u00a0 Columnist<\/a>, Nautilus Award-winning Author<\/a>\/Lecturer who promotes patient advocacy and inner guidance, and contributing author to Chicken Soup for the Soul.\u00a0 www.KathleenOkeefeKanavos.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Quote: \u201cLife is uncertain. 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