Eat Sh*t and Die…

Image replaced due to 4 fat women threatening to sit on me

Yet another of my associates succumbs to the grips of the medical profession. So many syndromes, diseases, conditions, cancers, etc, etc, etc. The real pity is that a goodly number of these can be traced back to what one of other foodies (Ren over at EdibleAria), calls the Standard American Diet, or SAD for short.

I am not as deep into this as a lot of people, or in as deep as I should be, I do tend towards fresh food, cooked at the lair, with a minimum of prepared food. Fresh meats, fresh veggies, cereals and grains, all prepared in fairly simple ways. But then again I ALWAYS have the roguechef twist…

I’ve rambled on about this before, in my posts about controlling sodium, but I need to start laying out some ways to work tasty healthy food into the diet of the denizens. I suppose the real galvanizing event was watching one of the lair, who has diabetes and high blood pressure, produce a can of prepared pasta crap by “famous” chief with an Italian / french name, and have that for dinner, turning down a Chicken stew over pasta meal.

My concept cuisine would be a Asian / Mediterranean fusion with a bit of vegan thrown in. If we look at both Asian and Mediterranean cuisines, we find that meat is a flavor or a side dish. ~50% of the dishes are vegetarian or very close to it, and another %25 use meat, not as a main course but as a flavor boost to the main dish. (I do speak of authentic dishes, not AmerAsian or some such fusion.) As an example a Vietnamese cole slaw with shredded chicken, say 2 cups of shredded bok choy as the slaw and 1 skinless chicken breast dry roasted and shredded into it. Or perhaps a Arabic Mezze of humus, baba ganoush, pita, and a small grilled kabob.

As I said “Eat Sh*t and Die…”

Some basic ideas, (stolen from may people and paraphrased), that I am sure will drive everyone crazy…

Global Concepts :

• 3 meals a day
• 1 plate a meal
• 1 snack, (nuts, grains, fruits, veggies)
• Water, (if you get hungry between meals, water)
• Some thing to chew on. (Sugarless gum, Cinnamon stick, chop stick)
• NOTHING THAT SAYS DIET, it tastes like crap and is packed with ugly chemicals

Daily :

• Breakfast (Do not skip this, or you will suffer until lunch)
• Grains
• Nuts
• Fruit, Low Sugar Types, (but any fruit is better than a candy bar.)
• Greens, Lettuce, Spinach, Cabbage, etc.
• Deoxidant Drinks, Brewed green tea, Fruit Juices, Veggie Juices

Weekly:

• One day meat less
• One day with red meat
• One day with pasta
• One day with desert
• Two days with meat as a flavor
• Two days with lean fowl
• Three days with broccoli, avocado, yogurt, fish, legumes

Not now, Not Ever:

• Prepared foods
• Frozen meals
• Canned Soups
• Instant anything
• Fast food (again prove to me this is food)
• Soft Drinks
• Margarine
• Candy
• Refined Sugar

Note : Thanks to super_medic_rachel for the graphic graphic ..