What Do You Eat Everyday?

[crashcourse]

(if you were talking to me ??)
I can barely manage it cause I am working so little.

My daughter starts University in the fall and she should be having the time of her life. She worked so hard for the high marks. But she has two parttime jobs to save money cause she knows I can't work much.

I can't believe what life has come down to.

Still, we do enjoy our food.

Quinoa huh?

[xiblanque]

Yeah.... Quinoa is similiar to tabouli or semolina in that it is very easy to prepare and it has a similiar texture.... It's very different in that it is complete protein and is actually a seed. Semolina is a wheat pasta and tabouli is cracked wheat/bulger...

from wiki....

Quinoa was of great nutritional importance in pre-Columbian Andean civilizations, being secondary only to the potato, and was followed in importance by maize. In contemporary times, this crop has become highly appreciated for its nutritional value, as its protein content is very high (12%–18%), making it a healthy choice for vegetarians, vegans and athletes. Unlike wheat or rice (which are low in lysine), quinoa contains a balanced set of essential amino acids for humans, making it an unusually complete protein source.[4] It is a good source of dietary fiber and phosphorus and is high in magnesium and iron. Quinoa is gluten-free and considered easy to digest. Because of all these characteristics, quinoa is being considered a possible crop in NASA's Controlled Ecological Life Support System for long-duration manned spaceflights.[4]

easy to cook....add a bit of broth or water and 5 minutes later.... done.
I like to toss it with a bit of Olive Oil and some cranberries or goji berries...
maybe a little Braggs enzymes and a touch of balsamic.... usually add lots of sprouted sunflower seeds or some diced carrot and veggies...
very good.
Xiblanque

[Ryder]

Well if you want to keep your good health then you must have to eat fruits and veggies and avoid eating junk food and other food containing high calories and fats..Also try to take green tea as it will help you in burning your fats very quickly and controls your cholesterol level...

[jonsi]

Many people have been discussing pharmaceutical medicines lately.

IMHO pharmaceuticals do not work in the long run. Food is very important.

Please check out old posts in this thread.

In the white light,
~jonsi

[tcmgpt13]

I beg to differ with you on pharmaceuticals never working. Sometimes, for specific infections, they do. Certainly acyclovir cleared up my viral caused lesions. Not the other lesions though. So to make such blanket statements IMHO is not giving a realistic picture of what drugs may sometimes accomplish for a person. I am glad that at least the viral infections have quieted down and some of the virus was probably even killed during the time I took it. We are all different and it is important to keep an open mind even about drugs which sometimes may help someone get over a particular aspect of their illness which may be feeding whatever Morgellons is.

I am not saying food is unimportant. Certainly making good food choices supports the body and pushes it towards health.

[jeanlong]

We eat almost 100% organic, unless we eat out to socialize. This usually includes but is not limited to carrots, celery, kale, potato, eggplant, asparagus, squash, tomato, banana, blueberries, pears, apples, garlic-chives, oranges, lemons, limes, garlic, brown rice, pasta from whole wheat or organic brown rice, corn chips, whole grain crackers, sprouted grain bread, beef from 100% grass fed cattle. Seasonings also all organic include cayenne, habenero, garlic, thyme, organo, basil, ginger, cloves, cinnamon, local honey, soy sauce bottled in glass, cilantro, parsley, tumeric, cumin, himalayan salt. Sometimes we also have wild caught fish including norwegian caught mackeral, alaskan halibut, alaskan salmon. Eat pasture rasied chicken, cage free organic chicken eggs, quail eggs. Juices made at home - carrot, celery, apple orange. Storebought juices in glass bottles - cranberry, pomegranate, apple. sometimes we buy organic orange juice in cartons. We grill, poach, and bake most foods. We make soup from seasonal veggies plus dry beans and lentils. We sprout mung, adzuki, brown sesame, black sesame to have in soup and salad.

Fats... I often have Flora cold pressed oil to make salad dressing or sauces for rice dishes out of incluiding flax, sunflower, sesame, pumpkin, walnut and hemp. Organic butter. Ghee. coconut oil. Generally avoid all cooked fats in baked goods or packaged foods and avoid all transfats.

We eat bison steak and ground bison. We eat soup from stock made from beef tendon and beef bones, always from only grass fed livestock (never grain raised or "grain finished"). We eat the marrow and tendon too.

A few times per week I will cook something in fat .... either be in a little butter like to fry an egg; or if needing more fat for cooking it will be virgin unrefined coconut oil. If I cook lean meat I always add gobs of coconut fat.

Dessert is frozen berries thrown into a food processor with cinnamon, cloves, ginger, honey and a banana to make a fast sorbet in the summer heat (frequently 110F+ here) sometimes with goat yogurt. Smoothies don't have yogurt but do have orange juice.

Soups include selections from sprouted and unsprouted mung, green lentil, orange lentil, kidney bean, black bean, navy bean plus quinoa, brown rice, millet, sesame, season vegetables. Hemp heart, pumpkin seed, brown sesame, black sesame are put into soups.

Storebought bread includes Ezekiel bread or European whole grain pumpernickel. Baking at home includes bread, crackers and cookes made from whole grain wheat or rye. Other nuts and seed foods include almond, pecan, walnut, cashews.

Dried items include coconut, raisins, green tea, peppermint. Unsulfered and minimally processsed TCM herbs include HeHuanPi, BaiXianPi, GanCao, NuZhenZi. We sometimes have squab. Ethnic foods I don't know english names for are minimally processed and available in 2 chinatown markets and the International Marketplace. The latter has imported italian organic extra virgin olive oil. We used to eat a lot more wood ear, snowear, and about 4 other fungus, but after I suspect my illness is connected to fungus I stopped and will try some again soon and see how I react.

Rice is typically cooked in a solar oven to have the far infrared heat gain, which has been shown to improve availability of its nutritional components. sometimes add HongHua to the rice; rice is always organic brown, frequently long grain or basmati. We eat tofu solidified with magnesium chloride.

Last blood test showed some arsenic, not a good thing, so we researched and read that conventional pork is raised on feed that has arsenic added. We still eat uncured non-nitrate/non-nitrate bacon, a package a month or so.

Drinking water is filtered with r.o.

I probably left out somethings. We normally eat a huge variety of food. we enjoy eating and like food, sometimes too much... fortunately we are not fat and do not have bad lipid panels in blood work. We are not on any meds but I take TCM herbs frequently if I have a flare up of a rash.

[Glispee]

I am on diet and trying to loss weight eating low carb diet, fresh fruits and vegetables.
What do you think about my diet, am I going right for losing weight?

[jonsi]

Hi Glispee,

I lost a lot of weight by avoiding food that is white. Bread, pasta, sugar, rice, lard, etc... Even now, if I eat a sandwich I remove one slice of bread so it is open faced.

A high alkaline diet helps too.

Also, look at the ingredients on the food labels. The more preservatives, the longer it stays in your system and they could be toxic to your system. So if you can't pronounce the ingredient(s) or know what it is, then don't buy it.

Good luck! Sounds like you have a good plan.

In the white light,
~jonsi

[fritolay66]

I don't eat much of anything out of a prepared box, cepting shells and cheese . Fresh veggies, not a lot of fruit(apples), jersey cow milk hormone free, kefir, fiber, some pulses, lean meats and range chickens. And boat loads of filtered water. Lots of soups with fresh ingredients. Wish I could stop the bruchetta bread, but the spices are addictive to me. Been on a BBQ kick lately too. Ah well, its Kansas City, what r u gonna do? Yum. Lots of salt, spices, peppers. Farmers market opens in April around here!! Lots of walking, low impact non aerobic for me. Adequate sleep.

Frito

[jeanlong]

found this interesting:


Biophotons: The Light in Our Cells


Still eating a lot of organic food, and with spring, stuff out of our yard. Some of the garden stuff is sort of wild by now, but the lettuce did not self sow this spring - too bad. Other things started growing early though including garlic chives.