Lets talk food, for a change

Before I start on food, I want to thank you all, my bloggy friends, for the training advice. I knew I could count on you.


I like this quote:

People are fed by the food industry, which pays no attention to health, and are healed by the health industry, which pays no attention to food.

-- Wendell Berry

I haven't talked about food in a while and since this seems to be an obsessive topic for our generation, here it goes. 
I am still mostly paleo, which means I limit my grain intake to a minimum. I figure that since our pre-ancestors managed to evolve over the millennia on such diet, it cannot be bad for us.  I don't think they suffered from diabetes either.  The last time I checked my cholesterol, sugar, and other such things they were in a very healthy range, whatever that means. Yes, I have developed some mistrust in the validity of those numbers too. 

Confession: many of my meals on John Muir Trail this summer were quite far from what I consider an ideal diet for me. I ate a lot of food loaded with pasta and white rice. The horror! 

Excuse: I did not manage to prepare and dehydrate all of my meals for the trek so had to buy commercial stuff and did not find any that were paleo, or at least with brown rice. Darn!

Now, that I am back, I am eating what I believe my pre-ancestors used to eat. 

This food pyramid comes pretty close to what I fuel my body with but with some modifications:

--I am pretty sure cavemen and cavewomen were regularly feasting on, very dark chocolate, coffee, and red wine.  :-) and whoever prepared that pyramid picture just forgot about those
-- :-) It is also obvious to me that this pyramid is missing Char's cupcakes. :-)

-- as much as I love good cheeses, I have to avoid them otherwise I would not be able to stop, oh, well, just another addiction I have to watch, so that wedge of cheese you see there - erase it

-- occasionally I will eat yogurt and drink kefir, both plain or with fresh fruit (yum!)

-- on very rare occasions I will eat some raw honey (yeah, that one I have to make sure is out of reach of my paws too)

I've been eating like that for quite some time now and I feel great. There is nothing better than a carefully prepared but simple salad with some added protein. I could eat that for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Just the process of cutting up veggies makes me happy. So shoot me, I realize that cave people did not waste their time chopping veggies, arranging them in a bowl and sprinkling them with herbs and spices. Well, I am not as pure as I would like to be, some of that civilization of ours has rubbed off on me too. 
And then there are roasted root veggies sprinkled with olive oil (surely a paleo fat), which especially in winter taste just heavenly.


So as you can clearly see I am not that much into dogma and ever so often I will stray and try things that are not on my list for foods to eat, like this recipe from Amy. Me, being me, I had to modify it "a bit" (sorry Amy, had to try cilantro in place of parsley, and there were some other changes... sorry again...), but not too many. It is yummy, and quite filling, trust me. Just try it for yourself and arrange it on your plate the way Amy did; Mine did not look nearly as nice. Oh, well, I am a cave woman after all, I shouldn't even own plates.


If you expected me to post my own recipes, tough luck; I don't really have any. I improvise as I go, every meal is different and unique, kind of like my marathon training programs. :)


So what are you eating, especially when you are in training?


And last but not least, I want to thank Michele for this award:

Michele writes:"Liebster means 'favorite' or 'love' in German and can be presented to bloggers you love that have fewwer than 200 followers."

Now I am to pass this award to people whose blogs I love. That would be all of you. Every one of you has something in your blog that inspires, motivates, makes me think, elicits a smile or a tear. I cannot choose one over the other so this award goes to all. Feel free to use it, you have earned it. And thank you for your virtual friendship.