Day 10

Yesterday went fine. I didn't put a whole lot of thought into meals, and so didn't get much to eat for breakfast or lunch. While the kids had tuna on sprouted bread, we just ate the tuna.
We went out for dinner as a treat. There was this really cool restaurant we wanted to try but couldn't find it. We ended up at the Texas Roadhouse. It was the middle of a snowstorm.
It's relatively easy to eat in any restaurant as long as they make actually "real" food (not processed or fried). Sure you have to forgo the breads and buns, but not hard at all.
Justin had grilled fish with 2 veggie sides, and I got the prime rib with salad and veggies. We all drank water (dad would be proud!) and only the kids ate the bread and peanuts.
The funny thing about this whole "complex" nutrition, is that it was the common sense diet not even 100 years ago. They didn't even have to think about it. It was just what everyone ate. It's so maddening to think how hard it is now just because so many industries have made billions of dollars at our health's expense and changed the entire landscape of food!
Could you imagine telling someone from the 19th century that we can't even FIND animals that are eating grass or that you can't even buy milk straight from the farmer??? If you walk into a grocery store thats 10s of thousands of square feet full of corn products you can even buy sprouted bread or meat that isn't tainted with chemicals! HOW RIDICULOUS! It would be laughable if not so sad. I try to picture everyday people trying this diet but not even being able to find the foods they're supposed to eat! WOW! I mean, they are out there, don't get me wrong, but it's so odd that you can't walk into a regular grocery store to buy food that is good for you!
I am not trying to discourage anyone from doing this, but just amazed at our world that is so "ADVANCED" HAHAHAHA. Anyone can indeed find these wonderful foods to eat, but it's going to take work. I think that is the hardest part. Once you find them, nothin to it!
That's what I love about this "diet". It's ideas and food are simplicity themselves. You can make nutrition really complicated, the way the world wants you to see it, or it can be really simple. Just changing to making everything from scratch would be huge. Or never buy a food in a box! That's probably a perfect rule of thumb to good nutrition!
My greatgrandma in my own kitchen probably would be wondering why it's so difficult at all. She would wonder why I would want to or have to journal about cookin meals!
One fun tip i learned right in the middle of Meijers the other day: "Prior to 1960, the cooking oil of the world was coconut oil until it was replaced by Soybean oil". That right there explains a lot of heart disease. Coconut oil is one of the healthiest oils you can consume and heating it does not convert it to tranfs fats. It's a staple of whole foods eating. Soybean oil, on the other hand, or other vegetable oils are bad, bad, bad. When they heat up, the "good" oil converts to bad oils. And your body doesn't recognize these forms of bad fat and either stores them in your stomach or arteries!