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When I was a boy I carried a can or two of sardines in my WW2 surplus rucksack when I went in the woods. Later, when I was married, my wife was a sublime cook, and mostly she was home so I had magnificent meals, and so I ate little canned fish.
I love to eat, but I never had much interest in cooking and I have even less now. A few times in late spring I will buy some of the magnificent fresh halibut that shows up particularly in a Japanese market in our International District. But it is very expensive. Soon fresh salmon will be around for a while, and I am especially fond of sockeye, again from the Japanese market in the ID.
But my daily driver is becoming canned fish. I eat more of this than anything else. It is fairly cheap. (For what it is, but it is expensive compared to a diet with a lot of starch. Overall about $500/mo for everything including veggie,etc) I can eat it all year, and order it online if I want to.
Supposedly too much fish is a bad plan because of mercury, but much of canned fish is low in mercury. (Not tuna, but other smaller fish which mostly are eaten by fish rather than eat other fish). So far I have sampled various high quality sardines, mackerel, and a really good brand of sockeye salmon, Rubenstein's. Salmon probably carry more mercury than sardines etc, but their habit of making suicide runs up the rivers should control that a bit. I'd say that now maybe 1/2 or a bit more of my protein is canned fish. One huge plus is I really don't need to do much else to make a meal. I keep a perpetual cucumber, onion and vinegar salad going, and usually that plus canned fish is all I need for the first meal. Maybe for dinner I substitute some broccoli or cauliflower or a bag of Trader Joe's spinach for the cucumber salad, and perhaps fresh fish or ground meat or lamb chops for the fish if I feel ambitious. I think this diet may improve my health, but even if it does not I think I'll stick with it. It's fairly good and very easy, so as long as I can handle the cans as I age I should be golden. There are even electric can openers so maybe this will never be an issue.
There is quite a bit of information about this way of eating on the web. It seems to appeal to old men.
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I love to eat, but I never had much interest in cooking and I have even less now. A few times in late spring I will buy some of the magnificent fresh halibut that shows up particularly in a Japanese market in our International District. But it is very expensive. Soon fresh salmon will be around for a while, and I am especially fond of sockeye, again from the Japanese market in the ID.
But my daily driver is becoming canned fish. I eat more of this than anything else. It is fairly cheap. (For what it is, but it is expensive compared to a diet with a lot of starch. Overall about $500/mo for everything including veggie,etc) I can eat it all year, and order it online if I want to.
Supposedly too much fish is a bad plan because of mercury, but much of canned fish is low in mercury. (Not tuna, but other smaller fish which mostly are eaten by fish rather than eat other fish). So far I have sampled various high quality sardines, mackerel, and a really good brand of sockeye salmon, Rubenstein's. Salmon probably carry more mercury than sardines etc, but their habit of making suicide runs up the rivers should control that a bit. I'd say that now maybe 1/2 or a bit more of my protein is canned fish. One huge plus is I really don't need to do much else to make a meal. I keep a perpetual cucumber, onion and vinegar salad going, and usually that plus canned fish is all I need for the first meal. Maybe for dinner I substitute some broccoli or cauliflower or a bag of Trader Joe's spinach for the cucumber salad, and perhaps fresh fish or ground meat or lamb chops for the fish if I feel ambitious. I think this diet may improve my health, but even if it does not I think I'll stick with it. It's fairly good and very easy, so as long as I can handle the cans as I age I should be golden. There are even electric can openers so maybe this will never be an issue.
There is quite a bit of information about this way of eating on the web. It seems to appeal to old men.
Ha
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