Recently have found myself cooking for one - which isn’t so painful as I’ve been making batches of the same food and eating it lunch/dinner until the supply runs out.
Having found that I dont get bored with eating the same thing day in and out, I began to wonder - what would be the ideal meal you could eat if you were only able to eat one thing for the rest of your training life.
What combination of ingredients would provide both nutritional value and deliciousness?
Kinda “Soylent Green” but with actual food rather than the chemical components.
Personally I’d be wanting to include a meat - most likely wallaby, then some beetroot, mushrooms, almonds, sweet potato…other stuff. Maybe in like a potato bake kinda thing.
What would your ideal meal be? (that isnt beer and pizza - we are trying to be fit healthy people here)
That meal is missing essential fatty acids and probably vitamins/minerals. I would have veg gourmeh sabzi on brown rice, persian dish my family’s persian it’s good af but basically rice/beans cooked in soy/flax oil with a multivitamins with all vitamins/minerals dissolved in it lol. Very difficult to get all vit/min without varied diet
The Singapore Mandarin Oriental Lunch buffet: Indian (the best part), sushi, noodle stand, Thai, seafood, salad, fresh fruit, waffles, ice cream and on and on.
I usually have them separate until I start eating then it gets mish mashed together in a sort of “bowl” if you will. If the avocado is too soft I eat it separately like a dinner roll LOL I’ll also substitute rice noodles in once in awhile and make a sauce from the chicken drippings and jerk seasoning. Also, and this is important, don’t incorporate the chicken (or whatever protein you decide on) because it’s a nice “switch” to the palate to just have other flavors every few bites. Maybe thats just me though! Banana is considered “desert” for me and it often gets a light sprinkle of cinnamon & ginger powder
Another meal I eat often is:
1/2 Cup Black Beans and White Rice w/ Cumin
100g Chili Lime Chicken Breast Shredded
1 Cup shredded Cabbage, Hot pepper, green pepper and onion (In the wok with Coconut Oil)
1 Apple, 1 Carrot, 1" piece of Ginger, 1 Celery Stock, 3" Piece of Cucumber (JUICED)
Soft corn tortilla based tacos. There are many weeks where I eat 3 dozen of these, last night was chicken breast, shredded cheddar cheese, mixed greens, and valentina hot sauce. Sunday was pork tenderloin, tomato, avovado, and mixed greens… the possibilities are endless and they’re so quick to make you dont need to make large batches. I’d love to do bowl of rice and beans topped with a meat of some kind, but beans are a no go for me (or more precisely my wife).
I also make a lot of hearty soups/stews/chilis this time of year. Seafood stew with whatever’s cheap always hits the spot.
