Food notions.

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With a stove back in availability, and limits on what is available this morning, along with some youtube views, I decided to try fish broth.  Banito flakes, several types of seaweed for various stages, heated water, fermented bean paste, and a bit of time... well and some specialty tools... produced breakfast.  Tasty?  Not so much.  It is rich, it tastes like fermented fish, it is thick, but it is, has to be, and acquired taste.  I added a bit of whole cream, which did cut it a bit.  Even so, between being an acquired taste and all else, I wasn't able to consume much.  And, yet, I will, most likely, try to consume this a few times a week, as an alternative to regular bone broth.  Here is one way to do it.  I added a certain type of seaweed for brewing, but not eating, miso.  Then I added another type of seaweed that is for flavor and consumption (if I ended up straining it out, I just couldn't do it).  All else was the same.  I am thinking, if I cut out the seaweed, and work on the amound of chips, I can probably make it much milder, at least for the start so as to build up tolerance.

Now, I also have a powder form of stock making, so that I could just add that to water and it would be a full miso base.  I will eventually try that.  There is a reason to consider this.  Oh, and adding proteins of various sorts, such as cubed chicken, or even allowing hamburger or ground pork to cook in the soup, might not be a bad plan.  Instead of seaweed, which makes the fish taste even stronger, perhaps kale, spinach, or some other type.  And, of course, any fast cooking vegetable might help... green beans to really thinly sliced carrots, diced onion, take your pick.  I'd stay away from things that add sea flavors though.  Bleh... just a bit much.  Oh, and cream really cuts it.  I just had too much sea taste in there, all told.

Oh, and as to wheat?  I am considering, as I clean up and sort, organize and arrange, and get life back onto some sort of reasonable path again, what to eat, how to prep it, etc.  I am putting this video in so that people don't think of things in a singular fashion.  Is something good for you?  Just because it isn't included, or is limited, on a specific diet, that diet may not be what you really need.  Weight is one issue, but your overall health is more primal.  If you are at "optimum weight" (if there even IS such a thing) but are unhealthy, what has your diet done for you?  If your goal is to look good when you die, go for it.  If it is to live a longer, healthier, fuller life?  Then think about your conditions, what your body really needs, and then plan for it.  Eat your medicine and put doctors and pharmacies out of business.  Their business is to make money, not heal you.  Eat your medicine.

This and other sorts of videos and reading are leading me to attempt to choose to more eat what I need than just what I want.  Now, where I can, I will mix the two.  As I said, I am planning to put ribeyes on the menu much more frequently.  It is about the exact fat to protein ratios needed for my goals.  However, adding bone and fish stock in will allow for fasting.  Greens are simply needed, and other whole, slow-burn, carbs... but as small occasional sides... save maybe greens as needed for potassium.  Ugh.

No one else will take care of you.  If you can't swim to shore, don't get in the boat.  Though, at this point... we are all in the boat, like it or not.  Death will come, but not today.  And there are worse things than death.  Oh yes there are.  I plan to avoid what of those I can.  Life is a talent, profit it from and through it or bury it and have it taken too.  Not always are the parables merely about just what they seem.  Life blood is a very dear, and holy, coin.  The only true coin of the Kingdom, actually.  Later.