So many people think that when you correct your diet or follow someone else's diet plan that you can not enjoy any food. This is a New Year's Day meal that was 50/50 designed by me and my girlfriend. It is not the healthiest meal but it is much better than what I had last New Year's Day. I used red cabbage in my collard greens, no butter and turkey sausage instead of pork. My Girlfriend coated the chicken like she was going to fry it but instead just baked it. Now the black eye peas and just bad for me. We didn't change them at all. They have Brown sugar in them, a stick of butter and about the only change is turkey smoked sausage instead of a fat piece of pork.
The greatest park about all of this, is that I still enjoy eating most things I love. No, Soul Food does not dominate my menu any longer. I can not eat fried chicken 2/3 times a week, and you will never again catch me putting ice cream in my body anytime soon but I do still get to have some wonderful meals. I actually feel like I have more wonderful meals now than I ever did over the last few years.
Bottom line, eat big in 2013 guys. We will all be just fine. ;-)
