Rethink Your Relationship To Food This Fall 

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Rethink Your Relationship To Food This Fall  

The harvest season is around the corner and the world is about to become abundant with food. Fall is a season when our relationship to food comes into focus. Signs of abundance are all around us and family feasts are coming up quickly. There’s a growing number of people in the world who feel like their relationship to food has become alienated and unhealthy. They’re trying to reinvent the way they relate to food with new practices and ideas that you can practice too. 

Slow Down Your Meals  

Slowing down your meals is about becoming more mindful about what you eat. Mindful eating can help get more nutrients out of your food and even help you lose weight. Without thinking about what you eat, you’re more likely to overeat or eat foods that don’t appeal to you. You can use simple tricks to introduce mindful eating to your life like taking your first bite with your eyes closed, setting down your fork after each bite, or even trying to eat everything with chopsticks for a week. 

Keep Food Breathing 

What do you do with fresh vegetables after you’ve sliced them open and used half of them? Do they get shrink wrapped and used the next day? Forgotten and ultimately tossed in the compost? Letting your food breathe naturally with beeswax food wraps can change the way you think about leftovers. Beeswax food wraps are made with hemp and cotton fabric, beeswax, tree resin, and jojoba oil – which makes it naturally adhesive. Beeswax food wraps adhere to containers and solid foods, or itself, to neatly wrap up greens, fruit, cheese, bread, leftovers – anything. 

The appeal of a beeswax food wrap goes beyond replacing plastic wrap. In contrast to plastic wrap, beeswax food wraps replicate the rind or peel that preserves vegetables, fruit, and cheese while letting it breathe. You will pull food out of the fridge that’s not just fresh, but vibrant. You can shop for reusable beeswax food wraps online at Abeego.com, the original beeswax food wrap maker. 

Forage for Food 

You don’t have to live next to the mountains or the forest to forage. There are many people out there who are pioneering the art of urban foraging – taking only what you need and finding it within the limits of urban spaces. When you’re foraging in the city, be mindful of where you are. Do you feel welcome and like you belong? Are you near arterial roads where plants are exposed to pesticides and pollution? There are some other rules as well to keep you in harmony with your environment: 

 

• Always set an intention for how you plan to use the plants 
• Take only what you need, never more than a third of the plant, so that it can regrow next year 

• Take your time IDing plants 

 

There are fresh, edible or aromatic greens and plants you can find in the city if you bend your head down and look.  

Enjoy the natural abundance of food this fall with a fresh outlook on how you eat and relate to your food. Be more mindful of your meals, keep food alive when you wrap it up, and start practicing local foraging if you’re up for an adventure.