I’m trying to eat a varied diet so apologies for a long post.
For breakfast I always have overnight oats but I keep changing the recipe. Today I have them without oats 😅 and have instead chia seeds, poppyseeds, sunflower seeds, flaxseeds and dried mulberries with 100 ml Oatly and 50 ml of kefir. Sometimes I swap kefir with yogurt (not Greek, normal liquid plain yogurt), onaka or a-fil. It’s usually some seeds, rolled oats, dried cranberries, mulberries or berberis and always 100 ml oatly and 50ml of some fermented milk drink.
I don’t eat gluten and poultry (for ethical reasons) so for lunch I usually have gluten-free knäckebröd (crispbread) with avocado, poached egg and fermented vegetables. Or a homemade soup with rice or bean noodles, prawns, fennel and egg. Or stir fried vegetables, usually fennel, cavolo nero, cabbage with some fish and a side of fermented vegetables.
For dinner we usually have beef and lamb because that’s what local farmers sell. We only eat meat three times a week. We buy 1/6 of a cow, cut and packaged so we have to be really creative because the prime beef is only about 10% of the total (just like on a real cow). We eat roast, steak tartare, homemade burgers, ossobuco, stir fries and roasted lamb, homemade saag lamb and lamb burgers.
I source vegetarian dinners from The Doctor’s Kitchen and other vegetarian cookbooks. We usually make a huge batch that we freeze or keep in the fridge. I don’t have time to cook elaborate meals every day so I usually make more stuff, like ossobuco for at least two dinners and lunch. We usually cook together with DH and bake with kids so it goes faster.
For snacks I have coffee with oatly, sometimes a banana, collagen powder and kefir shake after a long run, and bone broth which I make in advance and freeze in small cups.
We have treats every Saturday, usually it’s a healthy version of flapjack (homemade), very rarely a glass of wine with dinner, or a small pack of winegums. If I bake I always swap sugar with date sugar or syrup.
I love good food and I’m very concerned about the environmental impact of what we eat hence trying to get as much as possible from local farmers and always choosing seasonal vegetables. We are lucky to have at least seven different organic farms basically within 30 minute drive so it’s easy. Buying a 30 kg box of meat is also much cheaper in the long run.
Keeping my gut flora happy is a bit of a goal for me so we eat a lot of fermented foods. It’s also easy because I make a huge jar that lasts a week or longer. Right now I have fermented sprout beans with chilli flakes and kimchi. I also eat resistant starches several times a week, usually in homemade sushi (whole family love to roll them), salad nicoise, potato salad or just a slice of something with lunch.
I eat around 1700-1800 kcal a day, if I eat less I lose weight, but I run, train martial arts and do resistance trainings weekly.
I was on paleo diet for two years before we started cutting down the amount of meat we eat.