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>>Erik: What’s your approach to developing programs that will teach America how to eat
healthier and live better?
>>Sarah: Well my personal mission through everything that I do is to create conscious
eaters. So, I’m not saying I put the healthiest of recipes on my blog and that when I talk
about making grits I advocate for using fat free milk and no butter, but I – in everything
that I do whether it’s through my writing or in the videos that I’m making or through
my blog I, I want people to be more conscious about what they’re putting in their bodies
and so I try to help them make those decisions, in some cases it’s just by saying ‘This
is really fattening, this short ribs recipes may be a once every two month kind of thing’.
It’s good and I love to make really good food and so I want to share those recipes
and those ideas with people but I want them to be able to make the decision and have the
information they need to decide if they want it or eat it and I think that that is one
of the biggest problems because we’re not cooking for ourselves, we’re not consciously
thinking about what we’re putting into our bodies. So, in everything I try to do it’s
with the purpose of creating more consciousness around food.
>>Erik: And food consciousness simply is an awareness?
>>Sarah: It’s an acknowledgment about our intake of food. You know people that are struggling
with their weight or – you hear people all the time say ‘I just don’t know why I’m
not losing weight’ and then you get them to write that - everything that they’re
putting in their mouth down and they’ve lost ten pounds. I just think that we’re
on the go, we’re busy and food has become an after thought in some cases and in some
cases it’s become and indulgence and so for both of those things it’s less of…
there’s less consciousness around it and it’s dangerous.