My first assignment in my Culinary Nutrition Expert Program was to write our food philosophy. While I have studied and shared a great deal about food over the years, this was the first time I wrote out my own personal food philosophy.

Writing my food philosophy made me realize how much my food choices have changed over the years.

If anyone would have asked me my food philosophy from my teen-to-early 30s, I would have said I'm a vegetarian who tries to eat low-calorie, low-fat, low-point, diet foods.