Spatula Diaries: Pledge for a New Year

“Eat healthier. Lose weight. Drink less. Maintain a grocery budget. This is the week in which we put up or shut up—when the resolutions that sounded attainable on New Year’s Eve are fully tested,” writes 225 food blogger Maggie Richardson. “Most will fail, not because we didn’t mean well, but because life is too busy and hard to integrate new chores to the to-do list. The truth is, what we’re after is probably not as inflexible as the number of drinks per night or the composition of virtuous grocery lists, but simply a more satisfying relationship with food. If our meals were at once tasty, healthy, convenient and produced by our own hands, we would probably weigh less, shop smarter and stay well. How to achieve it? The answer is not in rigidity, but in the adaptation of a few simple, guiding principles.” Find out what Maggie’s resolutions for 2011 are by clicking here.