Food Revolution Day and Instagram

Because of my challenge to cook as various as possible by trying all kinds of recipes from different cookbooks I own I thought it would be fun to start an Instagram account to post the things I make and like. For the first three days I had 2 followers: some spam account and my sister-in-law. I didn’t really know what way I would like to go with this account so wasn’t too busy with it yet.

On the second day of my new account I found out that the next day would be Jamie Olivers Food Revolution Day and I thought it would be much fun to join and involve my girls some extra in my cooking on this day. So I looked up some extra recipes and we went for fruit & veg shopping. Back at home I showed them all the veg, let them taste it, play with it and of course made some pictures to put on my new account under the hashtag #FRD2014. In the beginning there were of course some likes from people also joining the Food Revolution Day, but then suddenly my account kind of exploded. Instagram picked up on one of my pictures and credited me! I was really overwhelmed and of course proud as any mum would be if somebody likes a pic of their little ones. It also gives a bit of pressure because I do not want anyone, who started following me, down. Took me a couple of days to shake the feeling of and now I’m back to liking what I’m doing on this blog and hoping that other people like it as well.

We anyhow had a great day with all the fruits and veg and cooking. It really helped me realize that I really need to involve the girls more in the cooking process. I’m all about feeding them healthy and varied, but forgetting the part before the food is on the table. First of all I was a bit shocked by me that my oldest didn’t know the name of the eggplant, we eat it all the time but I apparently never showed her a non-processed one. Second of all, they really enjoy helping me to cook. Of course I have been baking pies and cookies with them but they also likes helping peel the rhubarb or just put the pieces of eggplant in the pan.

So also on our behalf, thank you Jamie for starting Food Revolution Day, even for us it opened our eyes and made us have a really fun day