The Heart of a Foodie Without The Skill
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I haven’t mentioned it here until now, but I’m participating in the SITS Girls ProBlogger Challenge. Today’s task was to spend time analyzing a top blog in my niche, which
Me and my boys - my inspiration for healthy living
I guess is health and wellness or healthy living. I cover a lot of topics under this umbrella from cleaning and beauty products to food news and healthy recipes. Anything that impacts my ability to live a healthy, happy life fits. I learned three things through today’s challenge that I wanted to share.
1. I have a food facination. I love to read about, study, cook and eat all kinds of food. I’m fascinated by food’s ability to heal our bodies, change our moods, and bring us together as a community. I realized that although I’ll never be the go to resource for new and exciting recipes (I just don’t have the cooking gene), I will continue to be a resource when it comes to learning about food and how it can help us live a healthier, happier life. Most of the blogs in my reader have to do with food and I have more cookbooks than any one person really needs. I’m a foodie at heart. For those of you who like to cook healthy as much as I do…I’ve added a really cool natural food recipe search tool to my sidebar. I came across it while exploring one of my favorite blogs…Deliciously Organic.
2. All of the blogs I love have one main thing in common (other than talking about food) – photos! They are packed with beautiful pictures that compliment the writing and make the site visually interesting. The photos draw me in and encourage me to keep exploring the site even after I’ve finished reading the post that orginially caught my attention. I have to confess that I’ve simply been lazy when it comes to including good photos with my posts. Because I’m always so busy with the kids I don’t take the extra time to photograph my recipes or search for photos to compliment my topics. I promise to do better on this.
3. I can be really hard on myself when it comes to my blog. I worry about how often I post. Whether the topics I’m writing about fit within my readers expectations. The quality of the writing. The variety I offer. The quality of the information. And so on. In exploring other blogs today I came to the realization that I’m too hard on myself. I need to spend less time worrying about what I’m posting and more time simply being myself. My favorite niche bloggers show their personality through their sites. After spending time with them online I feel like I know them…like I could meet them for lunch and I’d have no problem talking to them for hours. I think I tend to be somewhat reserved in my blogging. Moving forward I’m going to work on letting more of me shine through.
Nothing earth shattering, but I enjoyed the exercies. Below is a list of blogs you may enjoy exploring, but before you go leave me a note and let me know what you like about Broccoli Cupcake. What else would you like to see?
I can really relate to this: “I can be really hard on myself when it comes to my blog. I worry about how often I post. Whether the topics I’m writing about fit within my readers expectations. The quality of the writing. The variety I offer. The quality of the information. And so on.”
I go through periods of that too. The only thing that stops me from torturing myself is to take a step back and remind myself I’m doing this for FUN. And I just need to do what I think is fun – that keeps it enjoyable and motivating for me…and it never fails that the work/posts I do that were just FUN always end up being the ones I end up being the most satisfied with in the end anyway.
I’m kinda-sorta doing the challenge, too.
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Great insights..also I can’t wait to check out the other blogs you suggested. I’m sure I’m behind the times, but I just realized you can do google searches on topics for just “blogs”. LOVE IT!
I didn’t realize how important it was to post comments either…I’m usually a spectator instead of a participater online. As someone who is in awe of those of you in bloggerspace…I vow to make more comments!
Keep up the good work!
I’m excited to get to know you through your blog. I’ve added you to my reader (after your list post). I like the way you write- I feel like I can join in the conversation and say hi.
I agree with you on Tartlette – she’s amazing and her pictures make me hungry.