Day 15: Meeting one of my biggest goals.

One of my biggest goals coming in to this was to actually set aside the time to eat lunch everyday at work. I tended to skip lunch a lot and now I make it a point to eat lunch and a healthy one at that. 

Today I brought a premade Mediterranean Quinoa Salad from Bakers deli bar. I also had cut a pomegranate and brought that. 

Day 8: Need to go grocery shopping

Tonight for dinner I had a simple pesto turkey sandwich on ciabatta bread. It was simple and delicious. 

1 ciabatta roll

1 tsp pesto

A little cheese

Lettuce

Onion

1 strip bacon

I really need to go grocery shopping so I did not have much for a side. I resorted to a hand full of chips and a French onion dip. Before portion plates I normally would sit down on the couch with the chips and dip and just eat from the bag. I choose to have a set amount that was more reasonable! Yay!  

Project Portion Plates in progress!

Ceramist Lauren Karle in her studio developing the forms of each dish.

Hello! I am an artist-in-residence at the Bemis Center and am looking to connect with people for a project. I am a potter looking to connect with a group of people who are interested in learning more about diet and nutrition. I envision sitting down as a group with a dietitian or nutritionist to learn about portion size and variety of a balanced diet. I would like to get to know each participants individual needs and habits to design a place setting for them. For example, I could make a plate for each food group, scaling it to the proper portion size. Colors of the dishes could reflect the persons desire to eat or not eat (blue makes us not want to eat as much). Traditionally we don’t eat McDonalds from a handmade ceramic dish. Participants could eat from the dish setting daily for a determined about of time and reflect on how eating from the specially designed dishes has changed their diet to answer the question,

 “Does what we eat off of influence what we eat?”

Quoted proposal: Lauren Karle

Posted by: Alison Ranniger - Bemis Center Intern

The Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts is an artist residency program located in Omaha, NE.

view Lauren's professional portfolio at www.laurenkarle.com