Diet
September 07, 2008
August 30, 2008
Ultimate Salad
Check out this salad at Best Life Online. It's tasty :)
August 23, 2008
Peanut Butter Protein Ball Recipe
Check it out at Project Swole.
August 14, 2008
Sonnon's Energy Bar
Give these tasty bars a try. The recipe's over at Rmax International.
August 10, 2008
More Protein Shakes
Check out these seven fully-pimped protein shakes over at Figure Athlete.
July 26, 2008
More Protein Shakes
I love protein shakes almost as much as I love dark chocolate. Check out some cool shake hacks from the Diesel Crew Forum.
June 10, 2008
70 Protein Shake Recipes
I love protein shakes. Check out this list of recipes over at Project Swole.
April 11, 2008
My Five-Point-Must Eating System
Every meal must be healthy.
I'm not going to argue for or against any particular style of eating. The internet has made it easy to find a tonne of recipes from all the major 'schools of eating' out there. My advice is give all the reputable diets a try, find out what works best for you and don't be afraid to customize their strategies and recipes to better suit your needs. I personally like Dr Clyde Wilson's take on eating—it's logical, simple and tasty—just like me :)
I must enjoy every meal I eat.
Good nutrition is important, but if a food tastes like shit I won't eat it. Food isn't just 'fuel' for my body—I'm a person not a car. I consider eating to be primarily a relaxing and enjoyable past-time—it's an oasis for me. Nutritional benefit be damned if a food offends my taste-buds. I understand that 'taste' is conditioned to a large extent, and I'm open to experimenting with new foods, but if I can't work out a way of making a food taste good I ditch it. Case in point—brussel sprouts. I still haven't worked out if they're nutritious vegetables or fibrous turds squeezed from Satan's anus. Either way, I won't eat them.
By the way, I'm not saying every meal has to be a gourmet extravaganza (I don't have the skills to pull that off anyway!), I just make sure every meal tastes good. I want to spare myself the cognitive dissonance of linking 'healthy food' with 'tastes like shit'—who knows where that could lead :)
Meals must be easy.
I'm not lazy—I'm busy. Well, okay perhaps I'm lazy. Either way, most days I get tired and don't have much energy left for cooking. So each meal I eat has to be simple to prepare, quick to cook, and easy to clean-up afterwards. If a meal isn't easy—from prep to clean-up—I won't even attempt it (no matter how tasty or healthy). If I fancy a meal that requires a lot of effort to prepare, I'll go out and pay somebody else to make it for me.
Meals must be affordable.
You know what really pisses me off? Comparing the cost of healthy food and junk food. In my country it's cheaper to eat shitty food than healthy food. And we wonder why obesity is such a problem? Anyway, enough with the rant (that's another article altogether). The sad fact is, healthy food is expensive. So it's important to develop affordable recipes—at least for the majority of meals.
[Another pet peeve: I don't like 'healthy' cook books that are filled with expensive or hard to get ingredients. These authors make eating-well look more like an optional luxury for the wealthy, rather than a smart option available to everybody.]
Meal choice must fit within a larger family eating plan.
Developing a meal plan for a family is difficult. And unfortunately, I do the cooking in my house. My wife is easy-going with food, so she's happy to follow my lead with meals. However, my daughters have been sent by God to punish me (probably for past culinary indiscretions). One likes what the other hates, so meal planning is a pain in the arse. Despite the hassle, it's well worth the extra effort to find recipes that suit everybody, or at least can be adjusted to suit everybody with minimal effort. It's no fun cooking three different meals for one sitting!
I don't pretend to be a nutritional expert or anything. These are just guidelines that have worked for me.
