[AT] Just checking....

[Stephen Offiler]

My wife and I are both working people with long commutes; we're out of the
house 10-12 hours on weekdays.  She only likes to cook when the mood
strikes, and I never like it much, so we have developed some habits to eat
healthy and fairly low hassle.

Veggies should feature prominently... that's where a lot of nutrients are
hidden.  You can wrap a sweet potato in a paper towel and nuke it in about
5 minutes, no mess, no extra utensils or dishes to wash.  In fact all
starchy veggies work pretty well in the microwave, take squash for another
example.  Frozen veggies can be thawed and heated in the nuke in a covered
glass dish, very easy.  Greens like baby spinach, arugula, kale, and mixed
lettuce can be purchased... they look horribly expensive at the store but
compared to eating out they are dirt-cheap.  We just throw a handful of
greens on a plate and put on some olive oil and vinegar, salt and pepper.
Takes about 15 seconds.  In season, tomatoes from the garden will be tossed
on the greens.  And we grow some of these greens too.  Oh, and avocadoes
are a frequent addition to that pile of greens.

Meat... no need to fear red meat, IN MODERATION.  Saturated fats are not
bad, unlike what the always-wrong media has been telling us for decades.
There are essential fatty acids ("essential" means you die without it) that
come from saturated fats.  Red meats as a food group are among the highest
in nutrition-per-unit-calorie.  We buy grass-fed beef from a local farmer,
and have burgers cooked on the grill a couple times a week.  Grilling means
no pots and pans to wash.

Chicken, we are in a CSA with the local poultry farmer and we have more
chicken than we know what to do with.  We do whole chickens on the grill
using the "beer can" method.  Google it.

Fish, about once a week, we buy the good stuff from a fish market or Whole
Foods.  Wild-caught not farmed.  Again done on grill, especially salmon
which you cook skin-side down on foil so the oils don't drip into the
flames.

Eggs:  GOOD FOR YOU!  Like the saturated fat in red meat, the cholesterol
in eggs is NOT bad for you.  Dietary cholesterol isn't even in the same
form as the cholesterol in the bloodstream.  Eggs are "nature's vitamin
pill" full of vitamins that are hard to find in other places.  We get our
eggs from the farmette across the street, free-range chickens.  Dark orange
yolks, very different from mass-produced eggs.

Salt:  if you're eating like I describe above, there's not much salt.  We
use Himalayan Sea Salt, which is pinkish to brownish in color due to high
mineral content.  Looks crazy-expensive on the shelf but that $10 bottle is
probably about 15 months old  and only half-gone.

Another quick and easy one is rice & beans.  Regular old rice, not Minute
Rice, cooked with plenty of real butter (from grass-fed cows... it is very
different in color and flavor from mass-produced butter) then when the rice
is about halfway done open up a can of red beans or black beans or
whatever, drain, and toss them in.  The beans are warm when the rice is
cooked.  Serve with salsa and some greens on the side.  Soak the dirty pan
overnight ;-)

Not zero, but, very small amounts of bread and pasta in our diet.

SO






On Mon, Nov 2, 2015 at 8:56 AM, Indiana Robinson <robinson46176 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> We regularly engage in the old peoples national pastime (eating out) since
> both of us dislike cooking. I have long bemoaned the difficulty of eating
> out in even a slightly healthy manner. In many restaurants a salad is just
> as bad for you as their burger.
> I don't have a lot of trouble avoiding sugars other than will power
> problems. My glucose tester keeps me in line there.
> While I NEVER use a salt shaker most places cook with enough salt to turn
> the Mississippi into a body of salt water.
> I eat a lot of fish and chicken, especially chicken but rarely eat red
> meat.
> I could become addicted to "real" bread so I just avoid it...
> I really prefer to eat at buffets just because I can pick each item instead
> of having a meal some menu writer picked out. I much prefer eating a
> spoonful of a bunch of different items over eating a big pile of a couple
> of things.
> I keep saying "Are eggs still good for you or was that last week"?
> :-)
>
> On Mon, Nov 2, 2015 at 7:33 AM, Stephen Offiler <soffiler at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > To draw an analogy between human bodies and old tractors:   of course,
> old
> > tractors with their low RPM and low compression engines tend to burn
> nearly
> > anything. The fallacy is thinking food for the human is like fuel for the
> > tractor.  The problem with that is the fact that food actually should
> > provide smaller amounts of fuel (look at how much excess "fuel" most
> folks
> > are storing these days!) and larger amounts of lubricant and spare parts.
> > Essential amino acids, essential fatty acids, essential vitamins,
> essential
> > minerals...  humans need these lubricants and spare parts continuously,
> and
> > even moreso once broken down and in need of repairs.  Highly processed
> > carbs (sugar, flour) are like putting 105-octane racing gas into an old
> > tractor with no oil.
> >
> > SO
> >
> >
> > On Sat, Oct 31, 2015 at 11:33 PM, Indiana Robinson <
> > robinson46176 at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > McDonald's?
> > >
> > >
> > > That's the closest thing in town to a health food store...
> > > :-)
> > > We had just stopped in for something to drink and realized it was lunch
> > > time so we got a couple of sandwiches.
> > >
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