Healthy Food - How To Establish and Maintain a Healthy Life

I thought it is clear to everyone now - we should eat healthy.
Even people who do not experience health conditions are affected by contaminated environment, stress at work and industrialized farming.

However now and then you can see seriously overweight young ladies in the shopping centers who eat in public those huge rolls filled with ham or hamburgers, greasy dressings and god knows what else.

Why is it so?

Not enough information on importance of healthy eating?
Not enough propaganda?
Not enough brains?

There must be several reasons.

Let me tell you about myself.

I have been health conscious since the age of 35.
At that time - being brainwashed by standard media - I decided to minimize my meat intake and switched to vegetables, fruit and cereal.

By the age of 40 - I felt I am dying.

I tried to blame work but after I read the book "Eating by Blood Type" I got an idea that it is much more complex.

THERE is NO single fit-all diet!
It is the individual's responsibility to live, think and come up with the one that suits the age, type, climate, lifestyle etc.

How to Build your Healthy Food diet

It is easy to start identifying your diet by filtering out what you SHOULD NOT eat - at least in your climate.

In my "no go" list (I live in Australia) I included:
- animal fat in its pure form, especially pork
- slow cooked meat
- cereals and breads (not good for my blood type "O")
- acid fruits and vegetables such as pine-apple, tomato, grapes
- processed food in any of its form
- food containing gluten
- beer
- milk

It left me with not too many options, considering a need for 3 meals a day.

What can you eat for breakfast if not eggs?

Then I created my short list of healthy food good by default.
- herbs (dill, parsley, coriander, basil)
- sweet pepper
- onions
- carrots

Here I came to a step when I needed to match healthy food to healthy life style.

I went through the Internet sources and got some idea about the know-how in healthy food.

I started shopping consciously thinking not only about price but also about how and when I am going to cook.

I came to these conclusions:
- Best part of beef is eye fillet. It is expensive but if you eat smaller portions - it can be affordable. (Also I found where you can by it cheaper!)
And guess what - you can cook it in just 5 minutes.
- Frozen prawns are not ideal but they give you an acceptable variation
- Fresh trout and fresh mussels - are good addition to the menu

That created a good base for my shopping list.

I began using mostly that stuff and in 3-5 weeks I felt much better.

Somehow i did not need to eat 3 times a day - just do not feel like that - and eat only 2 times!

Good for my health and good for my pocket.

And then I faced a challenge: how can you create enjoyable variations in cooking using same short list of healthy food ingredients.

I needed practical, easy and healthy recipes!

Once again - Internet helped a lot.
I found huge collection of free healthy recipes

Based on that and on my own ideas and experience I created a healthy Week Menu for myself and my family.

I am going to write about it in my next post.






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