The Run Down

I have been on a weight loss journey for over a year now, and I am still really struggling to find my niche with the food aspect of losing weight. For the past year, I have mostly survived on a diet of lean cuisine or grilled chicken and vegetables. While those are really healthy and good for weight loss, they get old very quickly.

I never learned to cook when I was growing up, I have a husband who swears to hate all healthy foods, and I have a two year old that is just learning eating habits. So for the past year, I have struggled with making two meals every night (a healthy meal for me and my son and a not healthy meal for my husband). This week I decided enough was enough. I need to learn how to cook, I need to learn how to eat healthy, and I need to get my husband to learn to enjoy healthy foods.

I made the decision to get a couple of healthy cookbooks and work my way through them one recipe at a time. My husband has agreed to try everything I make, and give me his honest opinion. This way I can mark off the recipes that we do not like as a family, and add the ones we do like to our day to day rotation. In the end, I hope to have about 20 tasty and healthy recipes that I can make that I know my family will eat and enjoy.

This blog will serve as my sounding board so I can post the recipes that I make, along with pictures of how they turned out, and my personal reviews of what I thought of the recipes. I will also be noting whether my husband and son liked the meals as well. I am looking foward to what I will learn out of this.