Food

Good foods that you probably should eat: (have you noticed that all the doctors will tell you is what you should NOT eat? In the hospital, they feed you the B.R.A.T. diet.)

• Bananas: Potassium, fiber. If you look, in most southern states of the USA, you can find local trees. You haven't lived until you have tasted one that ripened on the tree.
   
• Rice: Cheap, stores well (add salt to keep out bugs, rinse off before cooking). To cook without fear or special wares: Set a calender into the top of a pot. Add two parts water to one part rice below, and fresh or frozen veggies above then set a lid down into the calander to trap the steam. Set on high just long enough to boil, then turn to simmer and leave for 15 to 45 minutes.
   
• Apples: Cooked not raw. Try with margerin and a little brown sugar. Or in a pie. Or blend into a sauce.
   
• Toast: White bread (not whole grain; there are many better source of fiber and the particles will irritate your bowls) toast from organic weat (unless you are alergic), rice, or oat bread. Always toasted. With butter and honey or jam.
   
• Cantaloupe: 1/4 per day for all the Vitamin A and C you need. Buy local grown or only when in season
   
• Sweet Potatoes: Carotenoids, Vitamin C, potassium, and fiber. More like carrots than potatoes. Try with apple sauce or pineapple.
   
• Oranges: Folic acid, fiber, and Vitamin C.
   
• Beans: Garbanzo, pinto, black, navy, kidney or lentils. Protein, iron, folic acid and (of course) fiber. Cook well; avoid the cost of heating by using a solar oven. Chew well. If you get gas, do the yoga poses, or just lay down in one of those positions.
   
• Spinach or Kale: Calcium, Vitamin C. If you can grow your own spinach, wait until the outer leaves just start to take on a yellowish tint and then trim them away leaving the inner parts to take their place. They will be almost sweet and nothing like the canned or frozen junk. Salid or lightly steamed
   
• A fresh meat: Humans are omnivores for a reason. B Vitamins, protein, folic acid. Find a source locally grown, organic, well cared for chicken, fish, rabbit, or other lean meat. Shake hands with the rancher and smell the animals. To cook: Outdoor barbecue on a wood fire is the absolute best. Several Japanese barbecue sauces give great results, but nothing beats taragon, basil or oregano grown in your own garden. Honey and mustard is also nice for a change.
   
• Water: Nobody drinks the recommended 8 16oz glasses a day right? Try this: Next time you have a soda, dilute it with one quarter water. Next time, half water. Then work your way up to mostly water with mabey an eigth soda. You will be amazed at how good it begins to taste and you are getting more water than you would have otherwise.

Also:

• Health +
• Chickens
• Gardening
• Back Yard Fish Farm Ponds
• Goats (Nigerian Dwarf and other dog sized milk producers) +
• Home Farms
• Sustainable Homes +
• Solar Ovens
• Bees
• Trees

See also:

• http://www.insanefood.com Really unusual (but delicious) recipes.+
• http://www.fastonline.org/CD3WD_40/CD3WD/INDEX.HTM An AMAZING volumn of information on the subject of food.
• http://membrane.com/synapse/library/health/diet/research/humans_are_omnivores.html "You could say humans have a chemical addiction to being omnivores. "
• http://www.survivalplus.com/foods/page0002.html Sprouted wheat breakfast cerial for 3.3 cents a serving. +
• http://www.fullnet.com/u/tomg/pizza.htm How to Make a Really-Great Pizza:
• http://www.cfsan.fda.gov/~dms/dalbook.html Levels of natural or unavoidable defects in foods that present no health hazards for humans
• http://www.csun.edu/~mjurey/penny.html# Really excellent alcohol camp stove made from beer cans. Said to be better than commercial versions.
• http://www.watercone.com Brilliantly designed solar still will purify up to 1.5 liters of water a day.
  

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