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[Drizzler]

With the increasing number of threads out there about "what should I eat", "how do I get enough calories" and the likes, I have decided to make a compilation of some of the meals I typically eat in a day. I am absolutely convinced that eating this way has helped push my health to a new level, combined with plenty of exercise, sunshine, sleep, and positivity.

I have been through times of horrible breakouts. I have been through the "eliminate every food imaginable" phases, I have tried many different treatments, chemical/prescription shit (and most of it is shit), supplements, holistic treatments you name it. None of those things will ever be a fix-all.

A huge issue on this board is supposed food allergies/intolerances. While there are of course real food allergies for some people (peanuts, citrus perhaps), most of the food intolerances are not the cause of acne in and of themselves. Rather, the same thing causing the food intolerance is causing the acne. That being said, I realize many of you will not be able to nor want to eat some of these things I am posting. And of course some of you are vegetarian and wouldn't eat much of this anyway. But I assure you, if you base your goals on overall health-building rather than than just skin-clearing, you may eventually find that many of the foods you avoid in fact can be very powerful health foods.

Feel free to ask me questions, knock me down a peg, or whatever you'd like... I am just throwing this out here, because it has worked immensely for me on many levels.


If you would like to know more about me, look at the 7th page of the thread titled "Great Acne Treatment; the Best, actually". http://www.acne.org/messageboard/Great-Acn...0&start=120 (Post #129)

And my philosophy on food can mostly be summed up here - http://www.acne.org/messageboard/manage-di...ti-t253895.html (third post)

Edited by Drizzler, 01 March 2010 - 09:43 PM.

[Drizzler]

BREAKFAST

Breakfast option #1

Overnight-soaked quinoa
Sauteed onion and spinach
Cherry tomatoes from the garden
Avocado
Chopped fresh parsely
2 eggs cooked over easy in coconut oil

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Edited by Drizzler, 08 December 2009 - 08:35 AM.

[Drizzler]

Breakfast option #2

Papaya, Banana, & Blackberries
2 eggs over easy in organic ghee
Organic yogurt and cultured cottage cheese
Soaked pumpkin seeds
Cinnamon

...Gots to have me a little coffee every now and then.

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Edited by Drizzler, 08 December 2009 - 08:37 AM.

[Drizzler]

Breakfast option #3

Coconut flour pancakes

see this thread: http://www.acne.org/messageboard/Greatest-...14#entry2753914


Next on the menu: Lunch.

Edited by Drizzler, 08 December 2009 - 08:38 AM.

[dancedd]

BREAKFAST

Breakfast option #1

Overnight-soaked quinoa
Sauteed onion and spinach
Cherry tomatoes from the garden
Avocado
Chopped fresh parsely
2 eggs cooked over easy in coconut oil




These pictures are small... acne.org you're killing me with the .5 mb size limit...

Oh that looks so delicious!
How did you sauteed the onion and spinach? In olive oil, vinegar?


Btw, thanks for taking the time to post this so that everyone can see what a non-refined meal looks like

[c'est la vigne]

Oh that looks so delicious!

I agree! All of those pictures looked amazing. I'm so hungry now!

[Drizzler]

LUNCH

Most often I have a large salad with various things in it for lunch, generally with some of last night's leftovers incorporated in.

Lunch option #1
Mixed greens
Radicchio
Carrot
Cucumber
Leftover marinated grilled lamb
Chopped parsley

Dressing I whipped up:
Yogurt
Grated cucumber
Chopped parsley (would have used mint if I had it)
Lemon Juice
Olive oil

Little splash of balsamic underneath this dressing

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Edited by Drizzler, 08 December 2009 - 08:53 AM.

[ItalianBoy]

Hey dud do you put pepper on the eggs?

[HORSE The Man]

Holy damn man, you make everything look so good! lol

[Drizzler]

Lunch option #2

Mixed greens
Cucumber
Cherry tomatoes
Green bell pepper
Last night's Salmon

Dressing:
Lemon juice
Fresh basil
Olive oil
Walnuts
---Mix in blender

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[Drizzler]

Lunch option #3

Curry chicken & vegetable stew

Sauteed onions and carrots
Red bell pepper
Asparagus
Leftover chicken
Sprouted garbanzo beans
Sweet curry powder + extra turmeric
Little cayenne

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[life_is_grand]

I LOOOVE this thread, Drizzler! This is how I want my meals to look. Please continue to share as many recipes as you can. Could you post the actual recipe you use to make the coconut flour pancakes? I checked through some of those other threads and only saw one that used shredded coconut sent through a food processor and egg.

[Drizzler]

dancedd - I pretty much only ever use olive oil, organic butter or ghee, or coconut oil as cooking fats.

Italian boy - yes, I like to grind a little pepper on my eggs.

life is grand - this is copy pasted out of my first post on that coconut flour thread:

My favorite recipe is really simple, I whisk two eggs, and add enough coconut flour to make it into a batter. *The coconut flour expands/absorbs really well because it only takes a couple tablespoons or so with two eggs.* Add a small (like 1/4 tsp) of aluminum-free baking powder and a pinch of cinnamon. Gluten-free, grain-free, low-carb PANCAKES! I cook mine in ghee and serve with some 100% maple syrup spiked yogurt, chopped walnuts and blueberries.

I should add: Thank you all for the kind replies. Cooking has always been a huge passion for me (as has eating hee hee)... and I am very interested in nutrition and health as well. In this day and age there is so much crap out there that people are trying to get us to stuff down our throats. It is absolutely intuitive that eating this garbage is not what nature intended for us, and is a sure path to ill-health and disease.

Especially here in America, we have become so out of touch with our food. Fast and processed foods, low quality meats and produce produced in massive quantities, and things like candy bars and sugary cereals provide us with nothing beneficial whatsoever. It is really no surprise that we have the "obesity epidemic" and rampant heart disease and cancer. The sad thing is how we are programmed to love these things from such a young age too.

Some people think I am crazy when I tell them I would rather catch a chicken and cut off it's head myself (I don't, but I would if I could). For me there is a sort of spirituality associated with food preparation, a circle-of-life type feeling. This is why I love foods that are fresh, colorful, vibrant and alive! Eating this way is basically instinctual for me, and I am sure anyone who has the same feelings and desire to provide themselves with nothing but the best fuel for life can appreciate.




Stay tuned for dinner!

Edited by Drizzler, 08 December 2009 - 03:03 PM.

[dancedd]

Lunch choices look really goood Drizzler!! It gives me ideas for salad dressings too.

Do you have any healthy carb sources along with those veggies/chicken/fish plates? I noticed you do include carb sources with breakfast- fruit, quinoa, coconut pancakes.

[life_is_grand]

life is grand - this is copy pasted out of my first post on that coconut flour thread:

My favorite recipe is really simple, I whisk two eggs, and add enough coconut flour to make it into a batter. *The coconut flour expands/absorbs really well because it only takes a couple tablespoons or so with two eggs.* Add a small (like 1/4 tsp) of aluminum-free baking powder and a pinch of cinnamon. Gluten-free, grain-free, low-carb PANCAKES! I cook mine in ghee and serve with some 100% maple syrup spiked yogurt, chopped walnuts and blueberries.

i totally overlooked it somehow, lol. thanks.

do you ever use any other flours for the pancakes or is it just the coconut?

also, along the lines of dancedd's question, so far it looks like whole-grains aren't very abundant. i wonder what your opinion about grains in general is, how often you consume them, and what types?

Edited by life_is_grand, 08 December 2009 - 08:07 PM.

[DeAntonio]

Gonna order me that coconut flour tomorrow, really need to get up on those pancakes.

[venam]

Make sure the coconut flour you buy does not have sugar. They also take most of the fat our of the flour, I use dessicated shredded coconut instead because it is sold in a market near me.

[Drizzler]

life is grand - this is copy pasted out of my first post on that coconut flour thread:

My favorite recipe is really simple, I whisk two eggs, and add enough coconut flour to make it into a batter. *The coconut flour expands/absorbs really well because it only takes a couple tablespoons or so with two eggs.* Add a small (like 1/4 tsp) of aluminum-free baking powder and a pinch of cinnamon. Gluten-free, grain-free, low-carb PANCAKES! I cook mine in ghee and serve with some 100% maple syrup spiked yogurt, chopped walnuts and blueberries.

i totally overlooked it somehow, lol. thanks.

do you ever use any other flours for the pancakes or is it just the coconut?

also, along the lines of dancedd's question, so far it looks like whole-grains aren't very abundant. i wonder what your opinion about grains in general is, how often you consume them, and what types?

I don't really eat too much in the grain department... the only exception being occasional sprouted grains. I actually eat ezekiel sprouted cereal fairly often as breakfast or a snack. I occasionally have a slice of ezekiel bread toast with my egg and fruit breakfast. Also depends on if I am working out later that day, or if I just had worked out. If I do have something like quinoa I soak it for a while before cooking.

My opinion on grains is mostly that they aren't necessary. If you are strict vegetarian they may be necessary for calories, but for me there is really nothing in grains that I can't get elsewhere. Grains also tend to be some of the most bastardized foods... I mean look at breakfast cereals- they are so devoid of nutrients that they actually have to artificially add them back in... same with most pastas. So I pretty much avoid any grain products not soaked/sprouted. This is one of the hardest things to deal with if eating out, as this concept is so foreign to most people.



DINNER

Dinner option #1

Can't beat a fatty piece of wild salmon... served up with some vegetables and/or a salad.

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[Drizzler]

Dinner option #2

A huge concept for me is "eating rainbows". Every different color/pigment in fruits and vegetables offer their own unique blend of phytonutrients and antioxidants. They work synergistically to offer you maximum health benefits. This is why it is important to have a diverse diet of all sorts of different fruits and vegetables of different colors.

Lamb - marinated in olive oil, lemon juice, cilantro, garlic, garam masala and raisins. (grilled)

Grilled red onion, zucchini, tomatoes and yellow bell peppers.

Tabbouleh - Really easy, basic recipe - lemon juice, olive oil, parsely, tomato, cucumber, onion and bulgur wheat.

Homemade yogurt sauce, and slice of sourdough bread.

This is a sort of older picture, now I would probably leave the bulgur out of the tabbouleh, or use cooked ezekiel cereal instead, and I would definitely not eat the bread (unless I made it myself).


Dinner option #3

Grilled veggies
Grilled spice-rubbed chicken
Soaked quinoa
Balsamic reduction (so easy and so delicious!)

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[Drizzler]

Dinner option #4

Those last three were more summer plates. Since winter has set in and it's a lot colder, I tend to eat a lot more "winter foods". This was actually dinner just last night.

Coq au Vin (made from memory of some cooking show)
-- onion, carrot, chopped tomatoes, thyme, rosemary, bay leaf, broth, red wine, and I used turkey legs.

Steamed broccoli
Raw sauerkraut
Sweet potatoes - these with some ghee, fennel and chipotle.

Sweet potatoes are often mentioned here. They are definitely one of my favorites, and so versatile too. They can be steamed, baked, mashed grilled, fried, oven roasted, boiled up in soups. And they adjust to so many different flavor profiles too. Definitely an excellent health/acne food.


Another shot...

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Edited by Drizzler, 09 December 2009 - 11:28 PM.