It’s easy to get lost during the holiday season on the real meaning of the holidays.  Join us as we talk to Ellen Kanner about her book “Feeding the Hungry Ghost” and how we can mindfully eat and celebrate during holiday meals.
 
Show Summary

* Segment 1: Mindful Eating and bringing more meaning into your holiday means.  What are intentions you have for each meal?
* Segment 2: Setting up non-negotiable items for owning your holiday traditions. Time saving tips for Holiday meal prep . Items that make sense to buy fresh versus prepared.
* Also check out: http://www.fireitupwithcj.com/2011/10/20/oct-20-time-tested-tips-for-healthy-indulgences-for-the-holidays/

 Blog Post by our Guest

Meatless Monday: Hey, Thanks (I’m Talking to YOU)- Huffington Post
Posted: 11/25/2013 9:55 am

 What are you grateful for? The staff of vegan, organic meccaCafe Gratitude starts each day by answering this question. I find Cafe Gratitude’s practice — they call it Clearing — beautiful, healthful and not always easy, especially on days where the glow of positive energy is at risk of being eclipsed by your standard negative crap energy. Still, conjuring what you’re grateful for is always worth doing, not just for the sake of going out into the day with a stupid-ass grin on your face, but because giving thanks is good for us. Studies prove it ramps up our life force. It makes us better people and more fun to be around. As I write in my book “Feeding the Hungry Ghost,” “Gratitude is the soul’s Lipitor. It opens our hearts. It gives us faith. It gives us energy to go forward.”

Faith and energy have been thin on the ground here as I’ve faced a series of catastrophes and emergencies, including a hospitalized family member, burst pipes, crashed computers and a cracked tooth. For mood modification, I think about everything that’s happened since my book came out earlier this year, from speaking this weekend at the 30th annual Miami Book Fair International — my favorite literary event, and it takes place in my very own ‘hood, to learning VegNews has named “Feeding the Hungry Ghost” Book of the Year, an honor that blew the top of my head off.
But so much has been mind-blowing — connecting with heroes both culinary and vegan. I’m talking to you, Jacques Pepin, John Robbins, Joe Yonan and that’s just the Js. My book has been cheered on by the incomparable Robin Asbell, Nava Atlas and Our Hen House.