You are very right! We eat that way.
Our granddaughter started having a lot of ailments, including digestion troubles, infections, etc., when she moved out at age 18. She blamed it on her job as a hairdresser. She was eating at fast “food” places almost exclusively and drinking only soda and almond “milk”. She was putting on weight, though she was listening to the dogma of non- or low-fat and phony sugars as the “cure”. My daughter and I warned her if she stayed on her course, she would end up obese and sickly. One needs real food and fats, along with lots of good proteins, to be healthy.
Today, she had emergency gallbladder removal surgery at age 19. The surgeon said it was her diet. It does not take long to destroy one’s digestive system. When the digestive system goes wonky, so does the rest of the systems, like a row of dominos.
She will HAVE to eat a very low carb, high protein and real fats diet. That means no grains, (like cookies, cakes, bread...), soda, etc. Paleo-like diet will be her lifestyle, or, if she eats the American idiot medical recommendation of diet, end up with immediate evacuation of her bowels after every meal. Even the recommendated drugs will not stop it, though it enriches the drug companies.
Poor kid. She thought mom and Nana were food nazis and wrong. Now, she will have a lifetime of no goodies. At least she can have bacon and eggs, but without the biscuits and gravy. Okay, gravy on the fried-in-coconut oil/butter ‘tators.
She will have to finally put down her phone and learn to cook.
Hopefully your grand daughter will wake up and smell the good food not the crap she has been eating.
‘She will have to finally put down her phone and learn to cook.’
One of the advantages of the basic Paleo life style is the minimal sides one needs. You have your meat/fish or chicken, a good salad and a side of green veggies or mixed veggies. This makes cooking simple.
In the early spring, late fall and winter, my wife uses our convection oven to prepare a one pan/tray dinner in her convection oven. She puts parchment paper in the cooking pan/tray and arranges the meat/fish or chicken on the parchment paper and the green veggies or mixed veggies on the other side of the pan or around the meat. She EVOs the uncooked meal and seasons it and pops into the convection oven for about 30 to 40 minutes. While it is cooking, she makes a salad. Then, we have a great dinner, one pan to clean (minimal cleaning when you use parchment paper).
The rest of the year I charcoal basically the same dinners outside on our grill. Again, we have no pan nor pot to clean. While I’m grilling the protein and veggies, my wife makes a salad. She puts her salad serving on her plate with her share of grilled dinner, and I use the salad bowl when I eat her salads after my main dinner. Again, minimal cleaning and minimal prep.
Total prep time before either dinner is about 5 to 10 minutes and cleanup after dinner about 3-5 minutes.
We love leftovers and will often cook/grill enough to have left overs for lunch or dinner the next day. Total prep and nuking time in microwave 3-5 minutes. Nuke your meal on your lunch or dinner plate for minimal clean up. We use paper plates for lunch and normal dinner plates for dinner.