OJ

Continuing with Part 1 …..  I am bit confused these days, when I hear about food therapy types stuff like food for soul or mind. People eat to enjoy life or when they are in stress or depressed, etc. This might be true, we get hungrier when we are in pressure, stress or depress. But I feel, still we should eat consciously & not to forget in can affect our health. We need to maintain balance of food for our mind & health. We need to make conscious efforts to eat in portion. I am not giving any kind of nutritionist advice, but in efforts in make our mind relaxes if we keep on eating it, then we are harming our health. It’s like exchanging our health to get relaxed mind, which is dangerous. I feel this belief of relaxing our mind with food is like mirage or drug. You might feel relax for some time, as our stomach is full & get satisfaction. But again, after few hours or next day we back to square one. Everything in life is back, nothing changed. But might have degr...

I have always believed that food can be a booster for not just our health, but also for our mind. Since childhood, I have always enjoyed passing my time sitting in a kitchen while my grandma or mom cooking food or even sometimes alone, just enjoying it. It the place in our home while is most active, most happening, attracting all of us. In-fact our primary objective for earning money is to feed our family. Such is our kitchen so special. I feel it not just the place where food is cooked, but also the love, affection, sentiments are poured in our food to make a delicious meal for the whole family. No food can taste good, if it not made with love & affection. That might be the reason we can’t enjoy restaurant food for long time. If anyone feels I am wrong, try eating from same restaurant for long time & day will come when you won’t be able to eat the food or even get nauseated. Going deep further, if you have a cook at home, if the person is making with love, you will continu...

Welcome to my blog !!  I am Ojas Kapre, but I like people calling me "OJ". I am from Thane, but currently in Pune. I am working in IT company as Process Manager. I have done MS in Computer Science & interested in management & processes.  But a[art from my professional side, I have been extremely interested in food.  I am a decent foodie, but I hate eating something which is just fancy or glamorous food.  Also I would love to write what comes to my mind about food, professional thoughts, etc.  This is blog will be something like that ....  Hope you will like to read about my thoughts.  Thanks & Regards,  OJ P.S.- If you want to know more abut my profession, you can check my LinkedIn   profile.