I eat semi-healthily. My weaknesses are a sweet tooth and a fondness for ham, sausge and beef. Oh, and pasta.
Salads are great -- they're better with a good vinaigrette, which includes, oh dear, salt, fat and often sugar.
Oatmeal? Yum -- if it's sweetened.
And so on. I've cut the amount of sugar in my coffee (again) to half a teaspoon, and all but given up Reese's Cups. Salty crunchy snacks are harder to give up -- unsalted and half-salted mixed nuts help. Bacon's got to be more of an occasional treat than it has been.
Backing away from refined white flour is not a problem for me, other than pasta (and, okay, saltines -- oh, with a little peanut butter on them, is there a better treat?); I grew up with good rye bread and Roman Meal whole wheat, and have always preferred them to squishy, tasteless white bread. (Our national preference for what amounts to brioche will never cease to amaze me.)
I'm trying. The last doctor lecture was just short of scathing; I'd not been eating as well as I should have been, and it showed. I got worse about it during the pandemic, especially because I was keeping canned meat on the shelf and rotating through it to maintain a consistently dependable supply: Spam and corned beef hash are delicious, but....
There are ways in which I'll never get out from under pandemic habits; I keep paper goods and hygiene supplies stocked in depth, and canned foods, too. But I can and will eat better, and I have been doing my best for the last few months.
I've got a lot of spices, and I'm always looking for something new. A little more herbs and seeds, a little less salt; a little more pepper, a bit less sugar. It's got to help!
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Don't get me started, Roberta. There are so many inputs to what I may eat that it gets ridiculous. Frequently, I know that something is not great for me, but I cannot remember which chronic condition to blame. Sodium, potassium, phosphorus, sugars, and purines are to be limited. Nothing containing caramel coloring agent. Unexpectedly (to me, at least) is limitation on water - the only fluid that is good enough for me. I think my docs have come to the conclusion that some of my "conditions" are just old age. Isn't that a kick in the pants?! I think I've about hit my expiry date. *snickering while shaking my head.
P.S. I keep buying large jars of extra chunky peanut butter - then - having to give it away when I recall that peanuts are not great for me ; )
P.P.S. I like that you tell us how you make dishes. I make modifications of some of them. Thank you.
I've got MSG and Sulfites on my no-no list. It's good, because that knocks off whole lot of junk food. But that also means I've got to be That Guy when I go to potlucks and friend's houses for dinner, asking what's in this or that and perusing the labels of ingredients.
Come to my house and we can split an ice cube, Joe. ROFLOL
I've largely substituted monkfruit sweetener (erythritol) for sugar in my coffee and oatmeal. While large amounts of it can have a laxative effect, not having sugar with breakfast seems to make my energy last better into the afternoon.
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