Confessions Of A Clean Eating Food Blogger

Clean Eating is all about developing a healthy lifestyle. It is not about eating perfectly 100% of the time.
This blog has become a way of me sharing the clean eating recipes that I make for my family, but that is actually just a very small part of my life.
In the hopes that I can offer a little support and a fun dose of reality I wanted to share with you a little insight into another side of my imperfect but beautiful life behind the scenes and screens of The Kitchen Shed.

1. I wish my kids would eat school dinners. I love my kids and I love it when they eat healthy foods but I hate making packed lunches with a passion and I’d honestly rather pay for them to eat fish and chips on a Friday lunchtime then pack up lunch boxes every evening before I go to bed.
2. I really do not like cooking for other people. It makes me anxious. On the very rare occasion that we invite people over for dinner, or have to take a meal over to someone else’s house I’ll usually make lasagne and it more often than not won’t be clean. (Unless I know that they like curry and then I’ll make them this).
3. If I REALLY wanted to eat some cake, I would NEVER make a Clean Eating Butterfly Cake, nor would I ever waste precious calories on some pre packaged cake from the supermarket with a shelf life of forever. No, no. I would drive miles out of my way to the best bakery or cafe to get a slice of proper, homemade cake.
4. Whenever I go out to eat, it is possible that I will order a superfood salad. It is also possible that I will order a loaded cheeseburger with extra fries followed by sticky toffee pudding and a mocktail. Either option is ok with me.
5. Please don’t be surprised when you ask my children what exciting thing they had for dinner and they tell you Tuna Pasta for the fifth time in a month. It’s my go to meal when I can’t be bothered to cook (which is quite regularly).
6. I put on around half a stone every Christmas. I also lose that half a stone by the end of January doing the Clean Eating 30 Day Challenge that I dread every.single.year.
7. I have more pictures of food on my phone than I do of my children. It is something I’m working on fixing.
8. Sometimes my dinners are such a disaster, my husband will go out and buy himself a takeaway once the kids have gone to bed.
9. Please do not be concerned about me if you happen to see me in KFC with my mum at lunchtime. We go there often.
10. I am an Introvert, so blogging is actually the best career path for me to follow. Except the part where I have to actually think of something remotely interesting to say about the 10th bolognese recipe that I’ve made. Oh, and posting anything on Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest. I hate that too.

These confessions are not my way of telling you that I don’t believe in Clean Eating. I do, and this blog has most definitely improved my life. Creating new and exciting healthy recipes and feeling motivated to always be improving my health is something I am really passionate about. But it’s not my only passion and I am not superwoman. I have good days and bad days, stresses and anxieties. I am a mum and a wife, a daughter and a sister. I have responsibilities in my church and in the community and other passions that I enjoy following. I have goals and dreams and all of these things are what make up a massive amount of my life that isn’t seen here on The Kitchen Shed. I really do love to eat healthy food, I love to do all the right things that I know will make me feel my very best and I love sharing them with you. I just don’t live like that every second of every day. So if you ever thought that I somehow lived a magical life of constant health and happiness, think again. I am just like you, trying my best. And that is good enough.