Easter Time

Hello to any and all readers this week (:

I hope you are all doing fabulously, it’s okay if you are not are getting by (that is just as amazing).

I wanted to share some food for thought, pun intended. It’s Easter time soon and there are a few topics I wanted to speak about.
1. Pancake day
2. Religious events
3. Easter
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Firstly, pancake day! Although this has passed…I don’t think it has. Pancake day can be any day you want it to be! I had pancakes over the weekend as I felt it would be a bit much with what was going on for me on Shove Tuesday. I still wanted to have pancakes around this time so I made my own pancake day (: I was then thinking about the fact that why should we just have pancakes on pancake day, why not any day! If you are anxious about having pancakes but feel ready to challenge (if this is a challenge for you) you should not feel bad in doing so any time of year. 

Next, I wanted to speak a little about religious events happening at the moment. I’m not too knowledgeable on religious events like Ramadan and lent occurring right now but had a few thoughts as I know both of these can have some food implications. People will often give up something for lent and some people fast at specific times of the day for Ramadan. Even tho these are important for many people and their religion please make sure if you have participating you put yourself first. If possible please try and talk to family/friends and community teams about what is best for you. Some suggestions I have are giving up something that doesn’t have negative impacts on your diet or making sure you are medically and mentally stable enough to fast (maybe even doing this on intermittent days). Again, I don’t know a lot about these events but just some thoughts I had.

Lastly, I wanted to speak about Easter as it can have a lot of connotations with food. As a child I’d be so exited for Easter eggs and different Easter chocolate. These days I get more anxious than anything. However the part of me that is excited, wants me to find ways that I feel comfortable to join in. Some things that have helped me are pre-planning what may be manageable and thinking about what I want to join in with; remembering that others are not judging if/and what I join in; finding non-food Easter activities o can join in with. Easter can be a difficult time but can also be really enjoyable. The weather is getting a little warmer now which is lovely and there’s lots of lovely spring themed displays up in shops.
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I hope some of these thoughts have been helpful and I hope to see you back here for the next blog (:

-Leah