Food rules

I have been trying to eat a bit healthier for the last while now. This means mostly vegetarian stuff. I found Michael Pollan's book very useful in deciding what's on the menu.

It all boils down to this pithy little line: Eat food, mostly plants, not too much . 

The eat food bit means stuff that has received little or nor processing. It turns out that by cooking from scratch you can stick reasonably well to this advice. It takes a while to change from using processed stuff to more natural equivalents, but it is worth the effort. Buying less meat saves money, so buying organic vegetables and oil becomes a more realistic choice. 

We threw out our Flora spread. Real butter for everything now. We had toast for breakfast with just butter. Delicious. No need for any jam or marmalade. Using fake spreads is just lubricant for your mouth really. I don't care what they say in the promotional material, factory produced stuff is not for eating.

Mostly plants. The garden is bursting with vegetables at the moment, so we are spoiled for choice. Made a mint and garlic dahl as part of dinner yesterday. Very nice. Good to find a use for the mint that is trying to take over my vegetable patch. Couple that with the huge range of fruit and vegetables at Lidl and Aldi and we don't have any excuse for not eating more vegetables. 

Not too much is a bit harder. I am a great believer in eating until you are full. Especially for the main meal of the day. As long as what you are filling up on is good food then it should not matter too much. Not that I am disagreeing with the evidence for calorie restriction, but I just don't want to suffer unnecessarily to be healthy.