S.o. wrote: > I am not a subscriber to the paleofood list, however, I read the postings > daily. I read that you were now eating natural nutrition based on nuts and > fresh plants. Could you please let me know what your diet typically consists > of ? I am curious, because I too, have been eating nuts and fresh plants, but > I also include chicken and fish. Hello ... well, I already did, what is a kind of "outing" here in the list: My paleo eating is without any meat. Because i think it's unnatural and unnecessary. At least for me - and as well often for children as i observed meat isn't a source of pleasure My diet is inspired by both, - things that are probable and/or proven to be true paleolithic or earlier nutrition composition for our anchestors This are not only the few thousand years of glacial ice age in Europe, rather several 100000 years before in Africa. - things that have been adopted in neolithic times in an attempt to replace the original natural items - for the last few thousand years - computations , which possible ancient diet compositions are probable and possible, if you compare nutritient ingredients with the scientific requirements Typically I eat much plant seeds (all organic of course) - for example Almonds, Brazils, walnuts, pines... or their neolithic replacements: buckwheat, millet, rice, rye, chickpeas, lentils.... AND sesame,sunflower These are my main sources of protein, calories and many vitamins (especialy b-group) Much more in volume and important in ingredients as well as taste are: Salads, roots, other vegetables and mushrooms. Salads: I prefer dark green ones, or not so much genetically altered: - lambe lettuce, Arugula, dandelion, kress, spinach(raw), chikoree, radiccio, fennel(raw), romana , lettuce, i use much of best quality plant oils, and lemon or apple vinegar and salt as the only dressing. Roots and other vegetables - often eaten raw , often cooked in (slighly salted) water only: - carrots, turnip, radish, onion, garlic, aspargus, potatoe(yes) - broccoli, curlflower, spinach, fennel, mangold, artichoke... - almost any edible plant in good fresh (organic) quality - wih big variety but only one or two types at one meal. AND in winter 1 or 2 avocados every day. Mushrooms: I frie many types of mushrooms - tastes delicious many mushrooms are grown on straw or on pieces of wood-few found wild In the form of mushrooms you can virtually eat trees (wood). At last the fats: Best quality plant oils I use in the salad and often as the sole sauce over vegetables. The fats make up at least 30% of my caloric intake. Olive oil (i select by taste) and only type "extra vergine" (with intense taste) Never extracted types (Hexan used, filtered, heated....) Flax Oil Hemp Oil Walnut Oil Sunflower oil For heating purposes I use (less quality) olive oil and butter. For some weeks of the year i reject every animal product, especially any dairy then I feel .. kind of accelerated :-) I don't mind anybody eating meats, may it be red or poultry or fish. But: Meat is so costly to produce that it's almost always of bad quality. Bad quality at least if you apply paleolitic measures in terms of - fat composition: polyunsaturated! w-3:w-6 fats ratio - containing environmental poisons: heavy metals, organic chemistry - containing agro substances and poisons (hormones, herbizides) - food may be contaminated by aflatoxin (fungus-poison) from the fedder accumulating in dairy and meat ... Uhh, now i happend to write a little nutrition outline - If you don't mind I'll post it to the list too - as a little introduction to the new ones :-) regards Amadeus A little add-on (on the second view): I also take care not to use ready-prepared or preprocessed foods (avoiding soy and grains almost implies this too) AND not to mix too much ingredients per day.. to releave my imune system. It also releaves my kitchen work - keeping meals plain and simple. --- Sent through Global Message Exchange - http://www.gmx.net