Originally Posted by
Missy
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The new thinking, which is old thinking, is just eat a diet that is as close to natural as possible
That is if you eat meat, eat it in as natural a form as possible. Avoid sausages, burgers, ready meals, ham
Keep the carbs - thats your rice, pasta, spuds, potatoes to a minimum. If you fancy potatoes or chips use sweet potatoes as they are much better for you, less carbs and full of vitamins. Change pasta and rice to brown, tastes nicer actually but does take longer to cook
Avoid fizzy drinks, esp those with sweeteners. Drink tea, coffee, water and milk
Keep cheese portions to a minimum. A portion is a matchbox size, and thats not a safety box either
Eat oily fish at least twice a week. I find this easy as I love sardines, mackerel and pilchards from a tin. We also try to fit salmon or another fresh fish dish in each week
Eat 3 times a day, make most of each plateful vegetables
Ive been switching us over to a full fat diet and the weight is falling off us and DH's cholesterol levels are lower. Theres a lot of talk and research now that shows this low fat, full of sweetner and sugar diet that we have been told is good for us, is actually the reason for the increases in diabetes and obesity. More and more cases are being reported where diabetes has been reversed when people have changed over to a high protein low carb diet.
So here, crisps and biscuits are a no no. We do have chocolate, good dark stuff, not huge bars of fat and sugar. Bread is granary, butter is used. Full fat milk and yoghurt are used - all full of Vitamin D and calcium. We don't buy ham, we use chicken and turkey or tuna, sardines for sandwiches
I don't use salt at the table. I do however add a sprinkle to potatoes when cooking and green leafy veg. Tastes bloody awful if I don't and a sprinkle really is a sprinkle. I don't worry because we eat so little in the way of processed food we aren't shovelling hidden spoonfuls of it down our necks daily
I scratch cook 6 days a week and I never spend more then an hour a day in the kitchen. Its not difficult to cook healthy and cheaply using raw ingredients once you get into the swing of it. I often cook a lot of an item and freeze into portions so another day I spend less time cooking. Like tonights chicken, the rest of it will be some sliced for sandwiches, the rest in a stir fry. Im serving it with cauliflower cheese I made Sunday so Ive only peas and cabbage and potatoes to cook, and the left over potatoes and cabbage will be bubble on Friday
Basically we eat the way we did in the 60,s and 70's ( without the over cooking of veg lol ) We eat well, we don't over eat, and I cook from scratch what we eat as much as possible and I don't throw anything away