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YUM! This sounds right up my alley! 🙂
Ok, I will have to admit, I really do not enjoy eating vegetables. There are a few I like and I tend to stick with those. Kind of like DK with his dislike of spinach. But the combinations of the ingredients listed in the power salad is someone that I think I would like. Eating some of these ingredients alone kind of turns my stomach but the combination of these sounds pretty good. Eating dry carrots alone? Don’t think so. But when you combine the ingredients, makes it taste very good. Kind of like putting the spinach in a power smoothie when you cannot taste it. That is something that I have just about every day and is VERY habit forming. Now if only I would get in the habit of eating the power salad just half of the time I have the power smoothie, this would be considered a success! Now that sounds like a reasonable “plan”! Now, just to get off my butt and go to the store and get the goods….:-) that is the first step of course.
Jimmy –
If you want some extra motivation to “get the goods”, post what you eat on Twitter or Facebook. The public nature of it will more or less force you into a new habit. Even if you do it for just a week, I think you might be surprised how quickly it alters behavior.
OK, I don’t have a specific Power Meal but I will lay another recipe on you. This was just a fortuitous mixture of ingredients we regularly have around our Fusion Kitchen. The ingredients are all good and I’ll leave it to the biologists among us to tell us why 🙂
1)Slice up an onion so it falls apart into strips and brown it in butter and a bit of salt in a frying pan.
2)Boil a whole bunch of sliced green beans, drain and add to onions, turn down heat.
3)Shake in about 3 tablespoons of fish sauce (a basic Thai seasoning)
4)Spoon in 2 heaping tablespoons of Almond butter
5)1/2 teaspoon of Thai Red Curry paste and mix it all together really well.
6)Toss with refined wheat pasta and enjoy!
7)#6 was a joke.
This makes a tasty side dish for just about any meaty main meal…..
That’s something I will have to add!
I love power salads and have been eating them just about every day for several years. My favorite protein source to add to the salad is salmon or hard boiled eggs. Along with the veggies you mention I also like to add broccoli florets, onions, and red pepper. Oh, and balsamic vinegar along with the EV olive oil.
BTW, DK, I like how you list the references with the scientific data that backs up your statements in all your posts. I wasn’t aware of the monosaturated/saturated fat relationship with testosterone.
Joe
I love power salads and have been eating them just about every day for several years. My favorite protein source to add to the salad is salmon or hard boiled eggs. Along with the veggies you mention I also like to add broccoli florets, onions, and red pepper. Oh, and balsamic vinegar along with the EV olive oil.
BTW, DK, I like how you list the references with the scientific data that backs up your statements in all your posts. I wasn’t aware of the monosaturated/saturated fat relationship with testosterone.
Joe
Thanks Joe! Great ideas!
Thanks Joe! Great ideas!