It’s back to meal planning this week! Because we landed back in Stockholm early Wednesday morning and I went pretty much directly to the office I relied on some take out salads and a couple of freezer meals this week. But I’m back in business! I’m hoping to snag some big zucchinis from the farmer’s market this weekend and experiment with some zucchini fritters. I’m also going to start stocking the freezer and think it’s high time I made this lentil loaf again.
On to the links! This week just so happens to be the 100th edition of What’s Good Around The Web! That means we’ve read 500 food, nutrition, and health articles together so far. Amazing! Accordingly, I tried to find extra interesting articles for your reading pleasure. Enjoy!
1. Food as therapy. Long, but great read.
2. Coconut water changes its claims. Hrm.
3. What are your thoughts on stevia? Sweet salvation: can stevia be food producers’ Holy Grail?
4. Good news for legume lovers: Beans, peas, chickpeas, lentils increase fullness and could help manage weight.
5. Did you know that forty percent of Americans born between 2000 and 2011 will develop diabetes? This is double the risk of those born a decade earlier.
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Zucchini fritters with smoked tofu sounds just my sort of thing!
Great news on the legumes, they fill me up like nothing else can, there’s nothing as soothing like a bowl of dhal. Think maybe I should eat more of them at breakfast time. X
Legumes at breakfast is a great idea! I’ve got a few recipes I’ve been working on for just that.
Great article on food as therapy. Much more to food than something we put in our mouths to satisfy our bellies.
I went to the local farmers markets today for the sole purpose of finding the nicest produce I could find, bringing it home, and figuring out what I might do with it. Very fun.
I thought it was a fabulous article. We also went to the farmer’s market yesterday and loaded up on fabulous produce. So satisfying to put great food into our bellies!
Thank you, your lentil loaf is marvelous!
Yes, eating well right is a therapy! 5 months ago my husband had to change his eating habits – his doctor told him so because of problems with his heart and he couldn’t have a good sleep anymore – so together we decided to change our eating habits.
First we stopped eating any sugar, doing a 3 week detox, then we followed up with a 8 week paleo meal plan (for your ref.: timreviews.com/paleo) – I sleep 1,5 hours less each night but feel stronger and have way more constant energy throughout the day.
Did you experience anything similar?
(Sorry for my English)
Juli
Hi Juli,
It’s great that making changes to your diet lead to such overall positive changes in your life! Different ways of eating work for different people, and certainly detoxing from sugar works for a lot of people. We certainly consume a lot more added sugar than we need to!
I’ve got LOADS of recipes using lentils for breakfast! I need a protein-based breakfast or I am borderline useless. After eggs, lentils are my favourite way to fill up. So, good news on the science front for me. Although I’m sure my readers still will think I am a weirdo for pushing the idea so frequently 😉 I am curious to read the stevia article. I use Sweet Leaf organic pure drops (nothing but a natural stabiliser in it). As I don’t really have sugar anymore or sugar subs the only thing I do like is a couple of drops in my cold matcha tea. I occasionally put it in baking (for others) and make up the sugar volume with mashed fruit. Sometimes. But I do like dates if needing sweetness too (as you do too). Congrats on 100 ‘episodes’ of WGATW!
When I was doing research for my thesis project on artificial sweeteners I occasionally came across a reference to stevia having similar physiological effects, having to do with sweet taste receptors being activated in the mouth but no accompanying calories. It’s still a bit out of my comfort zone (much like xylitol and other ‘natural’ zero calorie sweeteners) as in my experience if something seems too good to be true it probably is. Props to you and your no sugar… it’s definitely not for me, but I respect it 🙂
I’m not completely averse to sweet but it just doesn’t do much for me on its own. Rachel and I just had a salad with loads of leaves, some fresh figs, marinated beets, avo, etc. I love fresh fruit in salads as I like the combination of flavours and textures. Some of us were just having a twitter chat about stevia, and most hated it on taste grounds alone. It think a little can be useful but not brilliant.