Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

[no fly zone]

Here in the UK the mainstream current healthy diet advice is to avoid processed foods, all soft drinks including "health" drinks. Eat five portions of fruit/veg a day, don't eat takeaways, don't eat sweets, avoid pastries.

There are lots of fringe diets, almost endless it seems, some of which are designed to combat particular health problems and some that are just downright dangerous.
Fussy about food is in part the consequence of affluence. Most of the world eats what they can get/afford.

Collecting what I consider possibly effective from the various diet advice I've read, I avoid seed oils, eat more beans, use more spices and herbs, keep the saturated fats to a minimum especially if one eats red meat. Drink water like it's going out of stock.
Eat more salads with as large a variety of leaves one can and make dressings with herbs and spices.

Sounds much like free range chicken feeding to me, apart from I've never seen a chicken knocking back a tin of Red Bull.

I'm on rustic Italian cooking currently for dinners. I've made a deal with my eldest for her and her husband to come around for dinner once a week and I'll try not to poison them. I'm hoping this will help sustain my wavering new found interest in cooking.

Definitely avoid seed oils. Olive and avocado are what we mostly use. Sometimes coconut.

 

[Molpet]

I roasted a lb of frozen mixed vegetables (cauliflower, broccoli and carrots) , an onion and potato.... also the white squash ... the chickens liked the squash. So far I don't like squash ..unless squash is in a sweet pie.
Also had a can of tuna, the dark chocolate with almond butter, oatmeal

 

[Molpet]

Definitely avoid seed oils. Olive and avocado are what we mostly use. Sometimes coconut.

That's what I use too.

 

[notabitail]

I roasted a lb of frozen mixed vegetables (cauliflower, broccoli and carrots) , an onion and potato.... also the white squash ... the chickens liked the squash. So far I don't like squash ..unless squash is in a sweet pie.
Also had a can of tuna, the dark chocolate with almond butter, oatmeal

I love canned tuna. It's great on sandwiches. And plain with yogurt. Both ways. Mmm.

 

[notabitail]

That's what I use too.

We do olive only here.

 

[Canadian Wind]

I try to avoid oil when possible. I do use butter though (NOT margarine).

Tonight, I pan-seared a small portion of rabbit (homeraised here), then put it in the rice cooker with rice and sweet potato and chili pepper flakes to finish cooking. Served up with caramelized onions and apples.

Still ate chips/crisps as a snack though.

Overdue Tax, Pepper the Cochin (Pekin) Bantam going through a *really* rough moult! (she was drinking, that's why she's hunched over)

 

[BDutch]

from the various diet advice I've read, I avoid seed oils,

I get what you write, except for this one. ^^ Sunflower oil is not bad to use. Much better than butter. Olive oil (first press, not the refined one) seems to be better though, but is expensive. And the unfiltered is not the best to use for baking above 180C.

I’ve been looking for info in Dutch and find all kind of complicated and contradictory information about oils and where to use it for.

 

[Perris]

Collecting what I consider possibly effective from the various diet advice I've read

I'm guessing you've not read Eat like the animals, by the nutritional geometrists Raubenheimer & Simpson, 2020, so here's what they have as 'Final take-home tips' or lessons learned from studying what creatures, spanning blobs to primates, eat, without getting fat or suffering any of the other chronic modern health problems: (it's not a diet, and I personally have never followed a diet in my life; this is just what advice falls out from the science)

1. estimate your protein target (use the Harris Benedict equation calculator available online at various websites to estimate your own daily energy requirement, multiply that value by 0.2 if you are over 65 to find your protein target, and divide that number by 4 to get the number of grams of protein you should eat (because each gram of protein contains 4 kcal of energy)).
2. "avoid ultra processed foods. Keep them out the house. You will eat them if they are there. They exist to be irresistible. These are the number one culprit in the global crisis of chronic disease. They have perverted the interplay between nutrients and appetites."
3. choose high-protein foods from a variety of animal (poultry, meat, fish, eggs, and dairy) and/or plant (seeds, nuts, legumes) sources to reach your intake target and ensure a balanced ratio of amino acids, which will satisfy the protein appetite most effectively. More variety if you're vegetarian, since single plant proteins tend to be less well balanced in their AAs than animal proteins.
4. our physiology evolved with a lot of fibre in the diet, and we rely on it to act as an appetite brake. Include lots of leafy greens, non-starchy vegetables, fruits, seeds, and whole grains to get fibre without calorie load. Beans, seeds and pulses add fibre, protein and healthy carbs, plus vitamins and minerals.
5. don't obsess about counting calories. If you get your diet right, your protein appetite will manage the calories for you. Accompany the high protein foods with lots of veg and fruits, beans and whole grains, containing good carbs and fats, and you will satisfy your appetites for all 3 macronutrients simultaneously.
6. be restrained with the added sugar and salt, and choose healthy fats such as EVOO.
7. you started with an *estimate* of your protein target; adjust it up or down until you feel hungry by mealtimes and satisfied after and between meals.
8. listen to your appetites. If you are craving salty umami flavours your body is telling you that you need protein. Do not fall for protein decoys in UPF snacks; find real protein food instead.
9. don't eat more protein than you feel you want. There is a downside to too much protein. Our appetites are better gauges than our calculators.
10. when building muscle mass, eating 20-30 grams of protein in a meal best activates the cellular machinery for muscle synthesis.
11. fast overnight and limit snacking between meals to boost cellular and DNA repair and maintenance.
12. eat the foods you like; there are endless ways to achieve a nutritionally balanced diet.

 

[RoyalChick]

Definitely avoid seed oils. Olive and avocado are what we mostly use. Sometimes coconut.

That is what I use too, but I have never heard about ‘seed oils’. Is that things like canola oil? Didn't know I was supposed to avoid them!

 

[Shadrach]

05/11.

Grey, dry with a mist late afternoon. 11C.