Friday, September 20, 2013

So what do I eat?

What do I eat on a daily basis if I don't eat anything with wheat or sugar, including no fast food? I didn't eat at McDonald's a lot with the exception of breakfast. If I was running late is was hard to pass up a trip to the drive-thru for a couple of sausage McMuffins.
This eating plan is roughly based on the Wheat Belly plan: 
http://www.wheatbellyblog.com/2012/12/wheat-belly-quick-dirty-2 
but is very similar to a Paleo (hunter-gatherer) diet, and emphasizes foods low on the glycemic index; that is, foods that don't make your blood sugar spike. Stick to fresh food as much as possible, the less processed, the better. Check the ingredients of what you eat. And here's one of my soapboxes - if it has Monosodium Glutamate (MSG), TOSS IT OUT. There is some debate on the possible effects, but the evidence is convincing. Google it to find more info.
This kind of eating usually does take longer to prepare than a quick trip to Papa Johns or Taco Bell.
Just to let you know, I was never a big vegetable eater. I was a very picky eater growing up. Even as an adult I didn't eat a lot of veggies, so this is something I'm still learning.We eat as many single ingredient foods as possible, which means fresh vegetables and fruits. Ingredients on an apple: Apple. Ingredients on a stalk of broccoli: Broccoli. Ingredients on a pack of hamburger meat (unless it's from Wal-Mart): Ground meat.
But here it is. Typical breakfast: scrambled eggs (with cheese if at all possible), maybe a banana and or an apple, coffee with half and half (no more sweetened flavored creamers), a slice of Paleo bread (made with almond flour and flax seed meal) if I've made any lately. Bacon and ham are allowed on some Paleo diets but Wheat Belly discourages them since they're so processed and have too many nitrates.
Lunch: leftover chicken, pork, or hamburger from the previous night, leftover steamed/boiled vegetables, a piece of fruit.
Supper, or dinner, if you prefer: a hamburger pattie covered with cheese, avocado, onions, and tomato, or whichever of those we have, or baked/grilled chicken, pork chops, fish. Two, three, or four veggies - cauliflower, broccoli, tomatoes, an occasional sweet potato, asparagus, squash, zucchini, carrots, a few others. We try to follow a friend's recommendation of making our dinner plates 25% meat and 75% veggies.
Snacks: natural peanut butter (made ONLY with peanuts and salt, no added sugar or oils), flax seeds ground and added in with peanut butter, nuts, fruit, sliced veggies. I still need to get some organic thousand island dressing for dipping.
There are a lot of recipes that we need to add some diversity to what we eat now. Homemade chili fits the diet with the exception of the Fritos I like to add. There are plenty of recipes for homemade wheat-free crackers out there, though. Run a search for almost any recipe and put the word "Paleo" in front of it and you'll see there are plenty of options.

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