Instagram: 6 reasons why you do my day to day
Instagram is at the top of the daily enjoyment list for me. When I started using Instagram, I was looking for inspiration and motivation for the kitchen. 99.9% of my photos are of food that I have created. The reason for this is to show that preparing delicious and healthy meals does not require a chef trained by the Culinary Institute of America, nor many fancy ingredients. I like my meals to be simple and tasty, hence the hashtags #KeepItSimple and #KeepItTasty. There’s no reason to cloud the flavor of your food ingredients with items that don’t enhance the flavor of the dish or serve a purpose.
Along the way, Instagram took on a different role in my daily life. The inspiration and motivation were still there, but the unintentional comedy was elevated to new levels. Before I discuss the images that are my favourites, let me say that I love to laugh and these images help take the stress out of life, even if just for a few moments. If you’re on Instagram, I think you can agree with these photos that they make you laugh when you scroll through the images on your iPhone or iPad.
The top 6 reasons why I go to Instagram every day
Photos of The Artist in the Cafeteria
We have all seen these photos. The one where the barista, do they just call them that at Starbucks, decides he’s either bored or he’s a starving artist and turns your cappuccino into a canvas. You see heart shapes all the time, but I’ve never seen a face or an animal. These images always make me laugh because I can imagine the person ordering the cappuccino from him in hopes of trying that steamed milk and hot coffee and relieving their stress and the results of a heart. Who decides the barista who gets the heart? Why does the person on Instagram decide another image of milk in the shape of a heart should be posted? We understand. Coffee as art. Let’s go!
Quest Bar Pictures
I’m not sure when the Quest Bar became the face of healthy eating, but if you visit a healthy feed, there’s almost certainly a picture of a Quest Bar. And it’s not enough to just be a Quest Bar, this product has been minced and put into cookies and cakes, crushed and thrown into yogurt and so many other variations of its use that this post would be too long. I’ve never had a Quest Bar and most likely never will, so I can’t comment on the taste. Why do Instagram photos make me laugh? They are everywhere and you can’t go a day without seeing a picture of them.
starbucks
I mentioned coffee barista artist photos above, but you can’t go a day without photos of Starbucks cups. They can be just the outside of the cup, they can be the inside of the cup. I’ve even seen pictures of the interior of the Starbucks. I look at them and think: you bought a coffee from Starbucks and somewhere between paying and drinking you decided you needed to photograph it, but did you try it first? Did you sit down to talk with your friends and stop the conversation to take the photo? I have so many thoughts floating around in my head and I laugh because I’m putting together a conversation that most likely isn’t happening, but in my mind it is and it’s hilarious.
cup cake
This is my third favorite photo on Instagram. I’m not sure why it makes me laugh when I see them, but they do. I guess inside I’m thinking: when you can’t bake, microwave. Maybe you secretly want to make a mug cake. I’m not sure, but I’m sure when the photos appear on Instagram, I laugh my guts out. I can say that I have seen some wonderful mug cake creations like the molten chocolate mug cake. That’s unbelievable in my mind, but the old man I poured 1 egg, protein powder and whatever else and voila, ‘baked’ a protein cup cake just made me laugh out loud.
Green Smoothies
These just kill me. They’re on Instagram en masse and they make me laugh because my thought is: Wow, you know how to use your blender. It’s a culinary sarcasm, of course, but how many pictures of green smoothies can a person see before thinking: great, now try cooking those greens in a different way or way? I know smoothies are quick and I make them too, but when I make them I don’t share them on Instagram because I didn’t do anything but add water, veggies, and fruit to my blender. I want my Instagram feed to be inspiring and motivating for people to go to the kitchen to cook, but with that said, if a green smoothie gets someone started on the path to health, then I’m all for it. Let me be clear and say that there is absolutely nothing wrong with green smoothies or smoothies in general, it’s just that when you see 20-50 pictures of green smoothies a day, you have to laugh.
Seflies before, during or after workouts
These are my all time favourites. The flexed pose photo is the best, but today I’m introducing my friend Marlene from Mission To A (other) Marathon because her selfies almost had me hyperventilating. She loves it when she posts pictures of herself from her office bathroom after a sweaty walk or run and her face tells the whole story. My favorite picture of Marlene is with her goggles on, as she looks like those guys in Despicable Me and therefore my nickname for her is Despicable Marlene. Selfies are the gift she keeps on giving because you know you’ll see dozens of them at any given time and one is more fun than the other. Do you wait until the bathroom is clear to take the photo? Don’t you mind if the bathroom is crowded?
These 6 reasons are why Instagram will always have a place in my daily routine. How you can’t laugh at some of the things you see on Instagram is beyond me. There’s a lot of inspiration and motivation, like the 21-day sugar detox I’ll be posting about on Monday, but some of it is also funny. I really enjoy following people on my feed to come up with creative ideas for cooking, going to the gym, and making me laugh.