In trying to eat more vegetables I’ve found that the easiest way is to have everything ready to eat at home at the start of the week, or whenever the week “starts” and this week it’s today. Up until travelling over the past month, and for the few months before, I started trying to maximise how many vegetables I ate, mostly on the insistence of hubby @whitehouseofwhitehouse pleading “please eat more vegetables”.
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So here I have a white bean and raw onion salad, with @lost.emperor’s fennel seeds fried gently in #goldteaoil #茶ノ実油 #白形傳四郎商店 (made from tea seeds from #Shizuoka #静岡県 Japan, a gift from @higuchi_takanori_kent), the frying transforms the flavour to an aniseed nuttiness.
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Then the seaweed, a hard-boiled egg, lettuce, green beans, tomatoes, and grated carrot (with some wheatgrass powder and linseed just because we had them). Dressing is a soy-dijon vinaigrette.
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This is pretty much my lunch every day when I’m at home, tweaked with other vegetables as I find them. It’s quite small, about the size of one clenched fist plus a little more, the size our stomachs are supposedly, or were before they got stretched with too much good food. It’s almost medicinal in that I feel confident I’ve ticked my body’s needs and beyond that I don’t need to stress. Feels like it’s made my digestion a bit more contented too, and tipped the balance towards a better health.
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P.S. hope this doesn’t appear too virtue-signalling, it’s more asking “I wonder if you feel like this too”, and trying to balance old-style comfort eating with dishes that are more comfortable (for me at least) more comforting to digest. Sometimes hot food works better, was just chatting with @ruhul.abdin who was cooking a hot vegetable dish for lunch, perfect on a wet cold English afternoon like this. I will balance it some days with hot vegetables too.
