12 October 2009
Profile of a Healthy Eater: Emma
One of my favorite new food blogs is Veggie Booty. Emma always keeps it real (and delicious). Read her profile below to find out which spice her husband says is going to poison her if she keeps eating it in such large quantities, and how she eats the infamous banana soft serve.
1. What’s the best thing about healthy eating?
Without a doubt, it’s the way that you feel. You don’t even know how good it can be until you start doing it - when you start giving your body want it needs and wants, it responds very positively!
2. Do you give your eating a label?
Generally, I would say that I’m a pescatarian. But, the word I prefer to use is “balanced.”
3. Favorite method of cooking and why?
I am a big fan of anything that can be prepared in advance, so as to save time on busy week nights. And, roasting/baking is a favorite as well: a little EVOO and some spices go a long way when roasting veggies - light with lots of flavor!
4. Favorite versatile herb/spice?
Cinnamon, hands down. I dowse my breakfast in cinnamon every morning. My significant other has been trying to convince me that there’s such a thing as “cinnamon poisoning” to get me to back off! I just love it.
5. Best healthy sweet treat?
My absolute favorite dessert is banana “soft serve” (frozen bananas blended until creamy!) with almond butter and a few dark chocolate chips. It’s amazing.
6. Your go-to-five-minute meal?
Peppers stuffed with black beans, whatever veggies are available, cumin, black pepper, and topped with a little bit of cheese. It takes about five minutes to throw together and then you just toss it in the oven!
7. “Healthy” food you avoid like the plague?
I’ve thought long and hard about this one, and I really have no ideas. The best I could come up with is pears, which I’ve never enjoyed.
8. Who’s the person in your life that is the most baffled by how you eat?
This would be a toss-up between my significant other and my former roommate. Though, recently, my SO has been reading In Defense of Food, so he’s starting to get it more. Which would leave my roommate, who used to have a rule that she wouldn’t eat any green food!
9. What’s your healthy power/comfort food (the one you know will get you through the day)?
This is a no-brainer: Oats! Specifically, whipped banana oats with almond butter, cinnamon, nutmeg, and a few dark chocolate chips. As everyone is picking that, though, I’d say my second favorite is tomato soup. And third is anything with almond butter.
10. If you could change anything about your diet, what would it be?
I’m working on listening to my body. Sometimes, I eat *way* past when I’m full or don’t eat when I’m hungry because I’m over or under my daily “calorie allowance” - I want to learn to listen to what my body needs better!
