Everyday Systems

This is the thirty day experiment...

so far so good.

Cooking and late afternoon were the hardest.

Is there a difference between a snack and tasting the food you're cooking. I think I know the difference, but I think that its one of those grey areas where I could start down a slippery slope even while the start was wholly honest.

Being aware of where that line is -- between snacking and tasting -- requires exactly the kind of self-awareness & internal locus of control that I need / want to find through this experiment.

Welcome!

As someone who likes to cook and does it every day, tasting can be tricky... you have to do it to make sure the food turns out alright, and yet it can degenerate into snacking.

I've found that just being aware of this issue has kept it from becoming a problem. Also the fact that I know if my tastes are too snacky I'll feel obligated to report it here, and I'd rather not have to do that.

Reinhard

Hi Redbeard.
Welcome! I hope your experiment brings you happy results, whether that means weight loss or new control and awareness and consciousness about what you eat and how you eat.
Hopefully both!

As far as my opinion, I'd say, just make sure you don't have five tastes which are a tablespoon each!
haha..
Stick with a teeny little teaspoon and only have half!
And let's hope you don't have a full time job in a restaurant or something!
I actually think it's a tough one only if you are really famished because then you might just wolf down a whole plate of food during your tasting session! So just watch that you don't wait till you are insanely hungry
So what do you like to cook?

Peace,
Debs