I never crave protein – only fat, sugar, salt

This was my breakfast last Saturday. Don’t laugh, ninety percent of the time I eat healthy, and this isn’t so bad.

Fig Newtons are animal-free and only 200 calories per pack of two long ones. The perfect cookie for the toothless or people with dentures. Now I know why it was my father’s favorite.

Grapefruit is my favorite juice of all time, preferably Ruby Red!!

Diet Pepsi satisfies my caffeine demand as well as thirst.

Lays Barbecue chips also my favorite. Usually I buy the nickle bags (what used be a nickel); the chips are smaller and thinner and almost melt in your mouth. Steve brings home this huge bag of my favorite and I’m in barbecue chip heaven; eh so what if they poke my gums a little. This satisfies my fat and salt crave.

One might think I went out or stayed in drinking last night. Not so on either count.

I’d take those four items over any egg or cereal breakfast any day of the week or year!!

Tomorrow I’ll get back to leftovers. Beans, beans and more beans.

I’m going to put this under the category of =DIET FOOD. For me, not necessarily for you. All I can do is tell you what I do; I’m not really telling anybody else what they should do, okay?

150 calories for chips. 200 calories for cookies. 90 calories for juice. no calories for soda. = a 440 calorie breakfast.

1.5 grams fat for 1 oz. chips. 5 grams fat for 2 Fig Newtons. = 6.5 grams fat for 440 calories

If I shoot for 20% fat per meal (even though 25-35% is recommended and/or acceptable) I’m well within those limits with this, according to most health experts, unhealthy meal.

One gram of fat = 9 calories. 9×6.5 fat grams=58.5 calories of fat to 440 total calories=13.3%. I’m good – very good.

For breakfast I can stop at one ounce of chips, not so easy in the evening.

Nice work Sharon!

Why don’t I crave protein when the body requires it?

I don’t know is my first thought. Maybe because protein is already in all plant foods? Like sugar and fat? But I crave sugar and fat and salt. There’s salt in all foods too. Absent the animal, which is a deviation learned from wanting the salt of the blood not actually the flesh, so flesh isn’t required and whatever we get from the blood which is negligible, since most blood is drained out of the animal before consumption.

I’ve never had a low protein count in my blood, even when I ate no animal-free meats, eggs and dairy, so I guess condensed protein as in eating animal muscle or condensed/concentrated plant meats isn’t necessary for optimaal health. That’s why I don’t crave protein. That’s my answer for now…later Gators, Sharon