Eat 30 plants a week?

Kate1949

I notice M&S have a range of Brain Food.

M&S have sent an email today telling me about drinks ‘packed with Lions mane’ 🦁

Really? Goodness me.

Lion's mane is a tree fungus that's said to have a variety of health benefits but a lot of conflicting information online plus some serious warnings.

FlitterMouse yes I watched those Christmas lectures- good weren’t they!
So it seems we are (in the context of nutrition) largely a product of our environment, and to a lesser extent our genes.
That figures.
Still I’m glad the dog can’t reach our taps.🙀

Whatever next eh! ..eye of newt or toe of frog 🐸

We were being relentlessly advised, over and over, not too many years ago to stuff ourselves with Tuna on the assumption it was a highly beneficial Brain Food.
There were tales of parents making their kiddies eat, eat, eat endless tuna prior to exams - I hope that's just an urban myth.
Now there's increasing suspicion that tuna is likely to be contaminared with mercury. I wish The Experts would make their minds up and all sing from the same hymn sheet, one way or another.

Mogsmaw. Oh dear. I ‘ll have to reevaluate then. Yesterday I made cawl. Carrots, leeks, celery, lentils, swede and potatoes. 1 persimmon and a pear at lunch and berries, strawberry, blackberry and blueberries for pudding in the evening. So 11 different things. … Today I have to eat different fruit and veg? Is that right?

I eat my veg every day but there’s no way I’d eat 30 different ones in a week
How can a pinch of spice or herb count ???
I don’t eat meat or fish so I do eat a variety of veg but not 30 different ones
In a week I d probably have onions mushrooms cauliflower sweetcorn brocalli peas leeks, beans grapes apple banana which is a third of the latest recommended

Oh missed potato and tomato’s out going up
Who can possibly afford 30 different plants a week and if you’re living alone they d go off before you got to the end of the week
And what possible good could a sprinkling of a herb or spice
do to your health they are seasoning Oh I could count pepper then
Seems another daft craze to me

I have been eating more than 30 types of plants a week since the 70s. It has never been rocket science. Products from plants all count eg rice, pasta, certain oils, seeds, herbs, spices but I have always included varieties of actual living plants and multiple colours in my diet, while avoiding making or buying acrylamides and other destructive harmful `food ` products

It has been very worthwhile, my microbiome is very healthy which means that I have a cheerful optimistic outlook and very good immunity eg butyrate production in my gut is high, a short chain fatty acid, which protects my body. There are countless other protective and helpful gut bacteria

I grew up in a heavy smoke-filled atmosphere and the epigenetics of what would be happening to affect my health was down to me after I got married and had my own home. I decided there and then that I am what I eat

In tandem with the 30 plants, I eat very little meat, organic. As far as possible, no chemicals enter my body and I have also filtered water since the 70s, having seen the chemicals added to water in order to make it `safe` to drink

I love my lifestyle, I love my energy, my enthusiasms and my food and I never sit in a corner waiting for others to provide what my body needs

It has never been rocket science. 😆

Funny how what started out as a lighthearted thread has quickly turned serious. Some people have had a sense of humour bypass...

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I did prepare a single meal which had thirty different plant ingredients. A challenge but perfectly possible with planning.

I hope all you massive amount of plant eaters realise that methane is a major human contributor to global warming, - even more than bovines 😄

Sprouts and cabbage should be banned for the sake of the earth. 😄

Does it mean 30 plants in total or 30 different ones? Marmin, that sounds awesome, but was it delicious?

Sorry, just spotted NotAGran55's post.

The meal was delicious. I used the buddha bowl format and had four different categories - grains, protein, veg and fats- all of which included a variety of flavours and textures. It was colourful as well. Obviously ( to me at least) it isn't practical to attempt this every day but as a small project it was great fun.

Products from plants all count eg rice, pasta, certain oils, seeds, herbs, spices

Come on Karmalady rice and pasta aren’t vegetables any more than sugar is let’s get real a pinch of paprika or cumin can’t be classed as your 30 a week what next chips they come from potatoes ahh well we ll have chips every day soon get our 30 in

Just what we need Rosie! A good laugh to warm us up. Personally I have tried some of these Plant Products and don’t ever go near that section if I can help it. Plenty of fresh veg , and natural ingredients made by yourself is my recommendation.

What are we, rabbits ? 🐇

Oh thinking about it you can put tomato sauce and pepper on your chips and the chickens eat grain so perhaps an egg on the side
Soon adds up I agree 🤣🤣🤣

karmalady

I have been eating more than 30 types of plants a week since the 70s. It has never been rocket science. Products from plants all count eg rice, pasta, certain oils, seeds, herbs, spices but I have always included varieties of actual living plants and multiple colours in my diet, while avoiding making or buying acrylamides and other destructive harmful `food ` products

It has been very worthwhile, my microbiome is very healthy which means that I have a cheerful optimistic outlook and very good immunity eg butyrate production in my gut is high, a short chain fatty acid, which protects my body. There are countless other protective and helpful gut bacteria

I grew up in a heavy smoke-filled atmosphere and the epigenetics of what would be happening to affect my health was down to me after I got married and had my own home. I decided there and then that I am what I eat

In tandem with the 30 plants, I eat very little meat, organic. As far as possible, no chemicals enter my body and I have also filtered water since the 70s, having seen the chemicals added to water in order to make it `safe` to drink

I love my lifestyle, I love my energy, my enthusiasms and my food and I never sit in a corner waiting for others to provide what my body needs

Well done! I am trying to do the same, gut biome is, to me anyway, a fascinating subject.

nanna8

What are we, rabbits ? 🐇

You can eat a predominantly carnovore diet and still meet the 30 a week diktat.

The whole thing is a daft way of relaunching what has been said for donkey's years. The best diet is a well balanced diet that includes plenty of variety.