It's proven to be an even harder habit to fall back into though. Once you stop doing something for awhile, picking it up again isn't easy. It only takes 21 days to create a habit, they say.
Enter Pinterest. I used to love it. It was a wonderful time-waster and treasure trove of ideas and inspiration. That's the same way I used to love food blogs. Inspiration is what they gave me.
However, Pinterest does this annoying thing where it follows people FOR you based on your previous pins or something, and so I end up looking at a million food pins. What I've noticed is that food blogs have gone over the top these days. Billions of ingredients in each recipe. And these recipes either have completely unhealthy ingredients, like a soup with a stick of butter and cup of cream, or are on the vegan side of things, with hard-to-find ingredients. While I prefer to fit more vegetables into my diet these days, I refuse to drive all over town looking for things when I know that I'm going to be too tired to make dinner most weeknights. So I just stick to my standbys like sweet potatoes, quinoa, chicken salads, and so on during the week.
And then there's the idea that more is more. 17 layers and 3 kinds of sugar? That cookie must be much better than something classic and simple. Or recipes with 3 different already-processed ingredients, such as pudding mix/cake mix/canned frosting? Those kinds of desserts hold absolutely no appeal to me and that's all I'm seeing on Pinterest these days. It seems like everyone is competing to have that next recipe post to go viral. I realized long ago that none of mine ever would, so that might be when I stopped trying.
I started posting recipes on this blog almost a year before I joined Pinterest. I still joined Pinterest well before the general population and, let's face it, nothing is worse than the general population being on Pinterest. They tend to not know how to separate it from Facebook and all of a sudden you're scrolling through your newsfeed looking at Jell-O poke cakes and wondering what happened to your life. And for the record, cooking chicken in a crockpot full of cream cheese and cream of mushroom soup is never a good idea.
In short, the inundation of over saturated photos, the multitude of ingredients, and the "OMG SO GOOD" on blogs has ruined my desire to create in the kitchen because it's just too much. Preparing food shouldn't be that complicated.
Do you have thoughts on this?
Do you have thoughts on this?
