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I wrote about the new food restrictions I’ve been facing. Â I’m starting to realize that all it takes is a bit of creativity in some cases.
When traveling, I’ve been making modifications to food. Â Mostly, I’m getting a lot of salads at places even though I hate salads.
It’s easy to get, but I definitely do not enjoy eating when I have a salad.
Lately when traveling, I’ve met up with different folks at different Mexican restaurants. Â And one of my must-haves is guacamole.
The helpful servers have given me celery to eat the guacamole with. Â Which I realized is kinda….
And then when I’m out to eat, instead of enjoying the act of eating food (which I usually love), I’m feeling disappointed and bored by the foods I used to love.
And nobody wants me to hit this level:
I was feeling kind of emo over guacamole when I remembered the guac I had with Tiff once.
Bacon. Â Ever-loving bacon.
And then it hit me.
I sliced up some bacon and put it in the oven at 350 for about 20 minutes.
And created a pile of bacon crispy goodness.
Mmmmmmmmmmmmmm….
I dipped it in the guacamole and it was delicious.
But this is reminding me that eating food can still be good. Â If I hate salad, I shouldn’t eat salad.
When I am offered celery next time, I’m going to ask if there’s any way I can get a side of extra crispy bacon. Â I can create my own food destiny here, and well, bacon is awesome.
The bacon chips were very nom and left much more full than I usually am when I eat regular chips and guacamole.
I eat a mainly vegetarian diet. One of my favorites is grape tomatoes sautéed in olive oil with zucchini, shredded carrots and onion served over either whole wheat pasta or spaghetti squash. I put freshly grated parmasan cheese over it. I’m a type 2 diabetic. The whole wheat pasta doesn’t throw my glucose levels out of wack like regular pasta does.
In the summer I visit a local farmers market every saturday morning to stock up on fruits and veggies.
Mmm, that sounds delicious!
Type 1 insulin pumper here. 🙂 Love the bacon idea!
My husband asked me why we ever ate guacamole with just chips in the first place, haha!
I’m wondering why we haven’t made guacamole with bacon yet… but I would still eat it with chips too. =)
Not to be a joykill, but carbonizing bacon (‘extra crispy’) is going to ruin the healthy saturated fats you’re after.
That’s really good to know. Does it make it more harmful too, or just kill all the good stuff?
Well, you’ve got a lot to take on: one step at a time. I like the order of operations Dave Asprey/Bulletproof diet gives: #1, macronutrients (~fats); #2 eliminate toxins/inflammatories/sugars; #3, micronutrients (~greens). Yes, crisped meats are carcinogenic in test animals. I recommend reading ‘ketogenic clarity’ and finding some paleo-nerds and raw-foods nerds and combining the two approaches.
thanks! I’ll check those out.