Dinner tonight: Salmon, Jacket potato and vegetables :-)

[Zest]

Hi everyone,

Just sharing my evening meal - which was a Salmon steak, with a Jacket potato with butter, and some mixed vegetables (roasted butternut squash and broccoli).

It would be healthier if I hadn't managed to burn it slightly - I know that's not a good idea - I wasn't as careful as I might normally be.

The meal was approx 590 calories, and it was tasty.

Just wondering what other people had for their evening meal? So if you would like to share, I'd love to hear. I am always listening out for meal ideas.

I'm excited it's the weekend, and would like to wish everyone a really good weekend.

Zest

[Zest]

Thanks for your lovely reply, Hidden - hope you have a great weekend.

[DMP1391]

Hey Zest,another great looking clean meal. Looks delicious.

I might add that for me, that's way too much starch! Most people would do well to avoid too much starch, especially potatoes.

Here's something you may not have heard; eating meat together with starch (including bread and potatoes) is not optimal for digestion. The starch will obviously take much longer to pass through you, which would keep the meat inside your GI tract for much longer than it should be. A very distinct feature of carnivores is that they have very short GI tracts. This is a natural evolutionary response to a species eating so much meat, as lions, dogs, wolves etc do. Their GI tracts are short in order to allow all the meat they eat to pass thru them very quickly, before it can start going rancid and having all the acid cause issues. Humans have a much longer GI tract, which is why eating meat isn't particularly the healthiest thing for us. It stays inside your body for too long, causing all sorts of potential problems. Eating meat together with lots of starch only multiplies this problem, as the starch will slow digestion down even further. Ideally, you don't want that.

When I eat meat, I eat little no starch at all. It may seem odd at first, eating meat without bread, but trust me meat tastes much better topped with a little butter, cheese on the side, and of course some non-starchy vegetables like onions, brocolli, eggplant etc. Keep it low carb when eating meat, save the starch for snacks or other non-meat meals.

[Zest in reply to DMP1391]

Hi DMP1391

Thanks for your comments, they are interesting. My meal has Salmon in it, rather than meat - does that make a difference?

Hope you're enjoying the weekend.

Zest