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So you can start with that and then find out which foods make you feel more stable/present.
Some foods that help my physiology are eggs, butter, fish, nuts, yogurt, avocados, turmeric, onions and other veggies. Also chicken and occasionally red meat.
Then I try to cook something that includes those foods and it can snowball into a healthier lifestyle because you actually feel better along the way.
When the easiest meal available is a salad because it takes two minutes to put all the precut ingredients (lettuce, cucumber, bell pepper, tomatoes, onions, olives, feta cheese) in a large bowl, toss it with lemon juice, olive oil, and put a bit of salt and pepper on top, then it's pretty easy to eat more of it.
For example, in my fridge right now, I have containers with cut bell peppers, tomatoes, onions, feta cheese, mushrooms, cucumbers, carrots, and a tub of spring mix. With that already prepped, a lot of weekday meals are easy to make. Toss some onion, mushrooms, bell peppers and some tomato sauce into a pan for a delicious pasta sauce. Or some onions, mushrooms, bell peppers, and some eggs to make an omelette. Or cucumbers, tomatoes, feta, olives, and red onions for a Greek salad.
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They key here is that "the perimeter" tends to be where the less-processed (and more perishable) foods are. Exceptions which are internal, as you note: spices, oils, coffee (and/or tea). I'd add: - Frozen fruits and vegetables, particularly if you want to buy bulk and reduce spoilage. Rapidly-frozen foods can be higher in nutrition than "fresh", most notably vitamin C, which degrades relatively rapidly. - Bulk grains…
Your habits are eerily identical to mine. All I did was ignore fads/hype and read Harvard Health. A botany elective in college was also extremely insightful and life changing.
Pollan himself is pretty awesome as well.
A few videos I like: https://youtu.be/1S3998B6BjI https://youtu.be/UIOW18kRDEA https://youtu.be/GCF6E0vRceo https://youtu.be/Kes2fk-Nuwo https://youtu.be/Y0p06tRmO78
This works for me. 1. Calculate calories: https://tdeecalculator.net/ 2. Generate meal plan from calories: https://www.eatthismuch.com/ 3. Grocery shop from checklist 3. Make meals. Credits to op of this Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/WeightLossAdvice/comments/j9i8ag/th...
Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants. Given: https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/healthy-eating-... I buy a week worth of salad components and make 10 salads for my partner and myself. No meat on these. Crumble of feta. Homemade oil/vinegar based dressing Then I buy salmon or cod for a few meals, chicken for a few meals, then an optional "wildcard" that might require planning. The rest is easy. Lots of frui…
Do you do any mise en place?
Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants. Given: https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/healthy-eating-... I buy a week worth of salad components and make 10 salads for my partner and myself. No meat on these. Crumble of feta. Homemade oil/vinegar based dressing Then I buy salmon or cod for a few meals, chicken for a few meals, then an optional "wildcard" that might require planning. The rest is easy. Lots of frui…
How do you do salads for a week w/o spoilage? Do you do any mise en place ?
I like greens that come from those robot farms. There have been a few different brands over the years. I have 10 square pyrex containers with lids that clip on all 4 sides. They've lasted about 5+ years so far. I put a small piece of paper towel in each to absorb extra moisture. Add cheese in the morning. Haven't had any spoil really but they sometimes taste less fresh and I eat them anyway.
I do my dressing in an oxo shaker but it can just be whisked in a bowl. Divvie it into Sistema dressing containers for the week. They're cheap and they've lasted years as well.
I've tweaked this a lot over the years but I've basically eaten a salad 5 days a week for 5+ years at this point. Be prepared to be the butt of jokes at work for sticking to it.
This works for me. 1. Calculate calories: https://tdeecalculator.net/ 2. Generate meal plan from calories: https://www.eatthismuch.com/ 3. Grocery shop from checklist 3. Make meals. Credits to op of this Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/WeightLossAdvice/comments/j9i8ag/th...
Now I'm on a 3.1k calories diet and some days I run out of ideas and I just don't know what to eat. I won't follow the full meal plan but there are some good recipes there that I'll definitely use.
Eat real food, not too much, mostly plants.[1] Figure out what you want / like to eat, and perhaps why (more on this below). Learn how to prepare that. Use that to guide your shopping. If you're not buying what you plan to / want to eat, you're going to have difficulty in preparing meals based on that. Learn basics of nutrition. There are numerous guides, I've found fitness / bodybuilding books useful as they're stro…
It's a scientific exploration of food and cooking.
https://www.worldcat.org/title/how-to-read-a-french-fry-and-...