It has become a thing to do among the people who eat the primal/paleo/caveman way to make a list of the ten foods you would want to take with you if you knew you had to survive on a deserted island but could only take those ten foods with you. Apparently, this island has unlimited cooking facilities. And seasonings don’t count so I listed them without a number.
- beef steak
- chicken thighs
- bacon
- eggs
- almond butter (like peanut butter except made from almonds)
- bananas
- pumpkin
- broccoli
- ghee/clarified butter (butter with the milk solids removed for those who avoid milk products)
- dark chocolate
salt & pepper and other seasonings like herbs, spices and garlic. Who can live without garlic?
And here’s a sample day’s meals and snacks I could have with those items.
Breakfast: Fry bacon; cook eggs sunny-side up in bacon grease adding salt & pepper. Crumble bacon. Mix bacon into eggs and eat.
Lunch: Season and bake chicken; steam broccoli then top with ghee adding other seasonings as desired.
Dinner: Season then broil steak; microwave canned pumpkin; melt ghee over pumpkin and add seasonings. I like salt & pepper on my pumpkin but cinnamon with nutmeg is also popular.
Snacks: one or two pieces of chocolate; sliced banana topped with dollops of almond butter
Yes; there’s a lot of fat in these meals. You need it to make up the calories you are not getting from breads, pasta, potatoes, rice, and beans.
If I felt the need for a baked treat I could mash a couple of bananas, stir in an egg and a few tablespoons of almond butter and bake it. It comes out like cake. I like to then melt ghee over the top of it to make up for having no frosting. 🙂
If I had one more item on my list it would be canned fish. I can eat tuna or salmon right from the can but it is also good mixed with an egg and seasonings in a 2-cup bowl and microwaved for about 3 minutes to make a fish patty. And the omega 3 oils you get from fish are a good thing.
BTW, it is understood within the primal/paleo community that the beef and ghee would be from grass-fed cows, the bacon would be free of nitrites,  the almond butter would not have sugar in it, and the chicken thighs and eggs would be from free-range chickens. But just eating this way (no grains or beans, and for many no dairy) without doing all that is still better for your body than what most of us were taught to eat as we grew up. IMHO, of course. And that of many other amazingly healthy people.
TTYL,
Linda
That sure made me think about what ten foods would I take. I agree with the first four but after that I’d certainly have to think. Maybe tuna fish would be added to that list along with oranges. I’d really have to think about the greens since I like so many of them. Pinto beans would definitely have to be on the list but then I’d have to work at figuring what else to add.
Dark Chocolate on the top of my list. After that…I need to do lots of thinking!
I never thought of the microwave pumpkin. I’m going to try that. How many WW points in that?
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What!?!? No manatee fritters!