One week ago the dreaded pot luck sign up sheet showed up on the refrigerator at the salon I work in. We have two pot luck luncheons yearly at my job, one for Thanksgiving and one for Christmas. For Thanksgiving it is the traditional Thanksgiving meal, although I never understand why we do it that way when the real Thanksgiving meal is the following week. One year in the 6 that I have worked at this salon we had an Italian food pot luck, this seems more practical being that in a week we will be cooking and eating the same things again. Once again they opted for the traditional Thanksgiving meal.
When I saw the sign up sheet it made me nervous, aside from coming up with something to bring for my contribution, what about the temptation. I immediately text my best friend for her opinion on food ideas since she is on the same nutritional path as me. When her ideas weren't to my ideal I went to Mom, her first suggestion was a veggie tray, not what I wanted to hear. I love to cook and this had to be a dish that would fill me up as well as be organic and clean. Last Friday during our weekly dinner Mom and I spent time looking through cook books and scoured the Internet for vegetarian dishes I could make organic. No recipes were jumping out at me, so I opted for a very less practical dish I already had the recipe for and most ingredients.
The problem with cooking a dish, the day before the pot luck I was up at 4am for my job in retail and worked through my stylist job until after 8pm. The day of the pot luck I had to be at the salon for clients by 8:30am, time was not on my side, I even contemplating picking up a GMO filled platter and calling it good. Like a good organic girl I went to the store after work the night before for ingredients to make Organic Ravioli Soup. Soup is the least practical thing to bring to a pot luck, I knew that but made it any way, because I knew it was clean and filling for me.
I started the soup the night before the pot luck, and got up an hour early to finish it. I don't even know if anyone ate it besides me, being that it wasn't practical, but that is fine, I know I ate clean for the most part. I did sneak a few pieces of pumpkin bread in. Although very delicious, I could tell the bread wasn't clean, it made my anxiety flare up. Not anxiety because I ate something I shouldn't, but anxiety that I feel when I have eaten something full of chemicals. My ears start to get really hot, and I don't quite feel right on the inside, it is very hard to explain. I have received these feeling previously from eating a fast food hamburger, and various other unhealthy dishes. It wasn't until recently I could pin point part of my anxiety being caused by my diet.
I swore I would never reveal this of myself, however I feel that I should in order to better explain my journey although I am slightly embarrassed. I started this path not only to feel better all around, which I do, but to also help cure the anxiety and mild depression I have been dealing with for the past few years. Don't get me wrong, I am a very happy positive person, just a slight feeling I have struggled with for a while. That being said, I am out to cure myself naturally, because YES our bodies have the ability heal with the proper nutrition!
For my Ravioli Soup Recipe you can find it here http://mobile.eatingwell.com/recipes/ravioli_vegetable_soup.html! I used all Organic ingredients of course!
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