Does The Food Taste Good?
Although I have posted several web pages about the recipes one can prepare if he owns this way of eating, I want to make it plain right now that, regardless of all the claims you will hear otherwise by those who have changed over to this, I don't think the recipes apart from the "greens and beans" plan is all that tasty. The beans I love. But I am from Kentucky where bean soup was one of my main meals. So I can take those in any form day or night. I MIGHT be able to eat those for every meal. But forget the creative recipes.
My wife has tried some of the concoctions on the pages I listed, but we have both concluded that any she has tried thus far are so-so at best. You will see these people in videos in kitchens the size of an aircraft carrier kitchen. There is crap everywhere. They are slapping food and appliances all over the place, laughing like hyenas, and going on about how delicious all this is as they slurp, go Mmmmm, and look at one another like they pounding down a bowl of macaroni and cheese, a Freddie's hamburger, or an Aurelio's sausage pizza. And, of course, they sprinkle the word delicious over everything non-stop.
As I say, I would put bean soup in the yummy category, but not much of anything else. I eat salads, but I don't crave one...ever. I think the best advice I was given was by my Naturopath who said, "Keep it simple...greens and beans." Linda and I have gone one step further and brought it all down to basically three things, which is still actually two things: beans, greens, and smoothies. That's it. Smoothies are the greens in liquid form and, taste-wise, are in the same category for me as the beans. Since you can make endless varieties of smoothies from the most wholesome foods on earth, you can also make them taste delicious by sweetening them up with fruit. Do the best you can with salads. But I think they get old. Beans, greens, and smoothies for desserts and meal replacement.
Anyway, here is what I think it all comes down to in about 4-6 weeks, having been on this eating plan for a while. You will sometimes hear people say, "I don't know whether I eat to live or live to eat." That is true. The people of America live to eat. Especially those who weigh 300 pounds and ride GoldWing motorcycles from one restaurant to the next. When I look back on what I was eating before, I think a LOT of it was living to eat. Linda and I would count the hours until we got inside a Freddies, Tommy's, Chipotle, HomeTown Buffet, Subway, Cracker Barrel, Corner Bakery, The Waffle House, and countless other places where I nearly broke down the front door to get in there. I guzzled soda by the gallon and savored fried chicken wings, butter and grits, cheeseburgers, shrimp, mashed potatoes, corn pudding, Jimmy Dean sausage, apples fried in bacon grease, and biscuits and gravy till my left leg twitched involuntarily like Thumper's in Bambi. I jumped from one addiction to the next and loved it.
Well, I decided one day that I wanted to be without all those medications and back to my slender self more than I wanted another Happy Meal. I now inhale beans in the place of hamburgers, pizza, and bacon, and I have noticed a change within me. I no longer live to eat. I eat to live. The addictive part is being replaced, and I can wade through Thanksgiving and Christmas without flinching.
My wife has tried some of the concoctions on the pages I listed, but we have both concluded that any she has tried thus far are so-so at best. You will see these people in videos in kitchens the size of an aircraft carrier kitchen. There is crap everywhere. They are slapping food and appliances all over the place, laughing like hyenas, and going on about how delicious all this is as they slurp, go Mmmmm, and look at one another like they pounding down a bowl of macaroni and cheese, a Freddie's hamburger, or an Aurelio's sausage pizza. And, of course, they sprinkle the word delicious over everything non-stop.
As I say, I would put bean soup in the yummy category, but not much of anything else. I eat salads, but I don't crave one...ever. I think the best advice I was given was by my Naturopath who said, "Keep it simple...greens and beans." Linda and I have gone one step further and brought it all down to basically three things, which is still actually two things: beans, greens, and smoothies. That's it. Smoothies are the greens in liquid form and, taste-wise, are in the same category for me as the beans. Since you can make endless varieties of smoothies from the most wholesome foods on earth, you can also make them taste delicious by sweetening them up with fruit. Do the best you can with salads. But I think they get old. Beans, greens, and smoothies for desserts and meal replacement.
Anyway, here is what I think it all comes down to in about 4-6 weeks, having been on this eating plan for a while. You will sometimes hear people say, "I don't know whether I eat to live or live to eat." That is true. The people of America live to eat. Especially those who weigh 300 pounds and ride GoldWing motorcycles from one restaurant to the next. When I look back on what I was eating before, I think a LOT of it was living to eat. Linda and I would count the hours until we got inside a Freddies, Tommy's, Chipotle, HomeTown Buffet, Subway, Cracker Barrel, Corner Bakery, The Waffle House, and countless other places where I nearly broke down the front door to get in there. I guzzled soda by the gallon and savored fried chicken wings, butter and grits, cheeseburgers, shrimp, mashed potatoes, corn pudding, Jimmy Dean sausage, apples fried in bacon grease, and biscuits and gravy till my left leg twitched involuntarily like Thumper's in Bambi. I jumped from one addiction to the next and loved it.
Well, I decided one day that I wanted to be without all those medications and back to my slender self more than I wanted another Happy Meal. I now inhale beans in the place of hamburgers, pizza, and bacon, and I have noticed a change within me. I no longer live to eat. I eat to live. The addictive part is being replaced, and I can wade through Thanksgiving and Christmas without flinching.