food for the soul™
food for the soul™ is a unique online experience, a portal of inspiration that supports and empowers you to take 100% responsibility for your life. How? By serving up ideas to inspire personal responsibility and nurture your soul.
Whether it’s some daily #SoulFood, seasonal #WellnessTonic, occasional #NourishingNibbles, or how freedom can be experienced in #TheFreedomZone, simply fill out the form to become a member and get your fill of ideas to chew on by joining our FFTS community. It’s free!
Inspiration
Today’s #SoulFood | Leo Tolstoy
“When you love someone, you love the whole person, just as they are, and not as you would like them to be.” ~ Leo Tolstoy
Today’s #SoulFood | Marcus Aurelius
“When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive – to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.” ~ Marcus Aurelius
Today’s #SoulFood | Jack Nicklaus
“Achievement is largely the product of steadily raising one’s level of aspiration and expectation.” ~ Jack Nicklaus
Wellness Tonic
How to Get your RDA of Fruits and Vegetables
Contributed by Ernest J. I don’t know about you but I am totally confused by the Food Pyramid. I know I am supposed to eat 5 servings of fruits and vegetables but how much is a serving? Is it a whole apple? Or a container of berries? I decided to figure it out and...
Easy, Healthy Snacks To Go
Contributed by Victor T. Staying in shape and eating healthy isn’t that hard if you plan ahead. Planning meals and brown bagging your lunch is one step. But many people falter when it comes to planning snacks ahead of time. It is easy to grab some snacks from the...
Diet No More
Contributed by Patricia N. I tried the Atkins diet, the Blood Type diet as well as all of the different fasts and cleanses available. I would lose weight but then gain it all back. I just found dieting to be too difficult. Then one day it hit me, instead of making...
Nourishing Nibbles
Debbie Ford
"If you admire greatness in another human being, it is your own greatness you are seeing."
Maya Angelou
"Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence - neither speed up nor slow down, add to nor diminish - it is an imponderably valuable gift."
Biting Back in the Caymans | Michael Di Paola
When saving the environment is delicious Contributed by Michael Di Paola There is a certain joy in watching a world-class chef harvest his food in the wild. Recently I accompanied the ebullient kitchen maestro José Andrés on a dive off Grand Cayman, where local...
About Us
I am Donna Marie, Vision Chef of Food For The Soul. I was born and raised in Jamaica (the Caribbean–not the neighborhood in Queens, New York) and have lived in the United States for over 30 years.
In the early 2000’s, I came across Zig Ziglar’s quote, “People often say motivation doesn’t last. Neither does bathing–that’s why we recommend it daily” and I had an epiphany; being inspired is a practice, a habit that needs consistent nurturing.
So I began my daily practice that included reviewing an inspirational saying each morning and setting an intention for the day. I got so much out of this that I started sharing these quotes with my friends; this took off and I was inspired to officially launch food for the soul™ at a neighborhood spot, The Broken Cup, in 2007.