Gramdma always told us we need to eat our vegetables, but we are funny in that most of us prefer not to eat them. These days l feel there are much less people eating their vegetables.
1). When was the last time you ate your greens? What did you have?
2). Do you have your recommended five serves of vegetables each day? If not, how many serves do you eat each day?
3). Do you eat a salad each day before a main meal? If not, how often do you have a salad, and what do you have in the salad?
4). Do you enjoy your greens or only eat them because they are good for you?
5). Do you cook your greens or have them raw?
6). Do you eat your vegetables before your meat or do you eat them afterwards?
l look forward to your answers.
Regards: The Shooman.
Last edited by The_Shooman (2013-06-13 04:07:36)
1) I am eating them now. Green salad with peppers tomatoes a heap of grapes.
2) I don't really focus on the number but I think I probably do on average throughout the week. I was a veggie for years when I was studying because I couldn't afford quality meat. Now I still find myself eating way more veggie meals than meals with meat in.
3) I don't. But with most meals I like some fresh green leaves. I don't feel right I I don't. I'm addicted to spinach and HATE to steam or blanch it. I usually have a smoothie when I get in from work too. Spinach, apple, grape is a favourite.
4) Love them, mate. I'd go veggie again in a heartbeat if I didn't have access to plenty of wild game and beef that hasn't been messed about with.
5) Raw is best for the most part. I do steam some things but never things that are good raw like carrots or peppers or me beloved spinach.
6) together usually. But I like a smoothie an hour or too before if that helps.
How do I rate Shooey? I think I live a pretty healthy lifestyle but you can always do better.
Ps. Sorry for all the spelling errors in my post. Using a new predictive keyboard and it's shite.
I eat meat twice a week on weekends. Usually a chicken breast or lamb rump, both organic. During the week vegetables and eggs only. No dairy at all, only almond milk.Very limited starch, i.e. no spuds, pasta, bread, cakes etc. This diet has cured my obesity/type 2 diabetes/asthma/and general ennui about life. I eat leafy greens, berries, nuts and seeds, every day and i supplement with fish oil, vit D3, and nettle root concentrate. I steam most veg or braise in olive oil. If having meat I always make sure i have a leafy green with it to promote 'transit'. I have noticed that eating meat slows bowel movements by up to 2 days.
Tonight no meat.
Chinese flavour stir fry. Made myself.
Chinese cabbage, chinese broccoli, bok choy, snow peas whole, snake beans, capsicum, bean shoots, onion, garlic, ginger all fresh, mint and coriander fresh, szechuan pepper, chili, sesame oil. Yummo
The simple answer is ''when I was five and a half years old and had no choice''. Yuk.
Last edited by Upstate (2013-06-13 05:35:12)
My wife cooks me green vegetables most days - peas, green beans, cabbage, sprouts, broccoli or spinach.
A meal without greens (or possibly something purple or orange instead) is not a meal.
Salad I eat when salad ingredients are in season - I avoid imported veg as much as possible.
You are all freakishly healthy.
I like green veg and salad but preparing and eating large quantities of them every day is not always practical when you're busy with work and kids and everything.
Now, I always make the effort and as a last resort will eat plenty of raw tomatoes, onions and cucumber, even on toast. Sometimes I will even have that as an evening meal.
I avoid that dry roquet salad like the plague, I am convinced this is the worse culprit for food poisoning, more than cooked meat. The other thing I avoid is "filet amercain", a Dutch delicacy of raw meat pulverised into a what looks like innocent pate. I mistakenly ate a sample in supermarket once and suffered a real nasty bout of food poisoning with fever.
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Last edited by The_Shooman (2013-06-13 17:22:50)
I had chicken, broccoli, red pepper, onion, yellow squash stir fry on brown rice tonight. Cooked it up in a little olive oil and garlic. The chicken came from a local farm and was running around a barnyard within the last couple of days. Costs a lot more but it's worth it.
Had the world's best quality breakfast and lunch...impossible to improve:
Breakfast
* 24oz (750 ml) of grass, fenugreek sprout and pea shoot juice
* 4 apples
Lunch
* glass of kelp juice
* glass of blue-green algae
* 4 glasses of spouted sesame seed and sprouted chia milk.
l feel absolutely brilliant and completely off my tits! Going to the country to get a sack of walnuts and hazel nuts for sprouting.
I'm about to have a plate of pig lard-fried bacon (three thick slices), lamb's kidneys (two), pork sausages (two), tomato, mushrooms, two fried slices, three eggs, baked beans, and a nice red robe tea. Not a friggin' green insight. Then I'm gonna listen to the CNN news and chew on a cigar as I consider how well the government of the USA is doin'; not just domestically but in f*ckin' over the world friggin' world - with a little bit of help from his friends.
Shooman, where do you get the algae? Never tried it but then never saw it at the grocery, either.
My breakfasts and lunches are similar. Smoothies of coconut water, kale banana; muesli of walnuts, apple, raw oats, dates; salad of broccoli sprouts, kale, sunflower seeds.