veggiessima

I super enjoy cooking new and different dishes, but on a daily basis my life is pretty busy, I don't have tons of time to cook new meals every single day.

When I cook, most of the times I cook large batches of food that last for a few days. Having food in the fridge or freezer ready to eat is key for a healthy lifestyle.

**Simple** is my favorite keyword.

The less complicated the plan is, the better chance it has to work. Well... at least for someone like me, who learned to cook by experimenting and by following recipes. I have taken a few short hands-on cooking classes, day long ones, but that's about it, so all my cooking skills are mostly from my daily experimentation.

I have been surprised so many times thinking that a simple combination was going to taste mehhhh... and in the end it turned into something really delicious. Sure there are some days where the combinations don't work well, but that's part of learning, right?

My second keyword is **wholesome**. I try to use fresh wholesome ingredients as much as possible. I do use canned beans and canned tomatoes for example, but even when I use those not fresh ingredients, I'm careful to read the labels and make sure I'm not buying foods with a long list of impossible to understand ingredients.

I buy unsalted canned beans that have just beans, or the ones that also have kombu, which is a seaweed that actually helps with the digestion of beans, kombu's enzimes break down the sugars in the beans making it easier on the digestion.

I buy cans of tomatoes that have just tomatoes, no salt, nothing else.

Fresh ingredients are hard to beat. I love the color of my food, I never get tired of admiring the natural color of those wholesome ingredients.

I know it can be overwhelming to make big changes to our daily diets, I didn't start eating this way overnight, I learned overtime.

I love the advice of adding one or two new healthy things at a time. Focusing on adding new healthy foods, instead of focusing on removing processed and unhealthy ingredients, is much more attractive to our brain than the thought of missing the foods we're used to eating.

One pot meals are a big favorite of mine, I have lots of fun experimenting with combinations of grains, beans/lentils, vegetables and spices.

This week I had lots of corn again from my CSA, plus tomatoes, onion and zucchini among a few other items.

This is what I came up with:

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