That’s our new Eating Responsibly slogan – WWGS?
Firstly, as you may or may not have noticed, I play with the the look of my blog…a lot.
Most likely this is to compensate for the fact that the www.EatStopeat.com site is a bloody nightmare (damn you iweb).
So I apologize for all the color changes etc..but it’s keeping me sane.
OK, now..onto nutrition.
Last post I talked about how eating responsibly is basically listening to your grandma.
For me, this meant
No treats before dinner, but if you eat all your veggies you can have dessert.
No chocolate for breakfast.
Did I mention eat your veggies?
Etc.
Then I had the idea..actually, scratch that, I’m lying…
Then Daniel emailed me with the idea that we should collect up as many grandma sayings as possible on this blog.
GREAT IDEA.
So I’ll start..grandma words of wisdom..or WWGS?
With all apologize to my American Friends, I would never EVER have gotten away with soda pop for breakfast, diet or regular it wouldn’t matter.
Grandma would NOT approve of a 500 ML of diet coke for breakfast.
OK, now your turn…
WWGS?
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My grandma would just ask me if I wanted more Ramen…
…maybe I should look to the other grandma. She eats the same thing at the same time every day.
Hmph. I don’t like that either. Corn flakes at 9PM (since a decade before I was born, at LEAST.) Shudder…
Another one from me was “eat your fish, it makes you smart”
That was almost 30 years ago.
which makes me think…will they eventually discover that eating Yellow Beans actually DOES make you taller?
Since the acronym still holds good, I will go with What Would Grandpa Say. My grandfather was a Kansas farmer and auto mechanic who lived to be 93. He was always both very skinny and ridiculously strong. At the age of 91, he got a hernia operation and was out that very same day moving 40 gallon drums.
His diet looked something like this:
Breakfast – eggs (sunny side), white bread toast with butter, sausage, peaches
Lunch: McDonalds
Dinner: Chicken nugget or beef tv dinner
Dessert: Apple pie and vanilla ice cream
Truly a confounding guy. How many rules of being lean and strong did we just violate there?
Yeah, but if he was 91, I’ll bet HIS mother made him eat better than that for the majority of his life and laid the foundation for his healthy old age!
Well, let’s see:
eggs- cholesterol
white bread- refined flour
butter- saturated fat
sausage- processed meat
peaches- were they canned? That would be sugar or sodium or something
McDonalds- ooh, scary!
Chicken nugget or beef tv dinner- processed meat
Apple pie and vanilla ice cream- refined sugar
Yeah, quite a few!
John:
I love that! I’ve yet to meet a long-lived person who actually ate like the experts tell us to. Who knows, maybe if they had they could have lived to 150! My Great-grandma (who remained healthy until she died following a brief illness at 93) deep fried everything. Her breakfast eggs (that’s right – at least an inch of lard), her meats, even her vegetables (fried okra, fried tomatoes, fried squash.) And everything else she drowned in butter and salt.
The only advice my Grandma ever gave me about food was – “Eat another piece, you’re too skinny!”
I like the new look! WWGS? Besides finish what is on your plate before you go play, not much that hasn’t been said.
I am fasting today and Chicken Nuggets sound pretty good right now…where did I put that water?!?!?!
Maybe it’s not food related, but it is a great WWGS:
“Be original, just don’t be an original fool.”
Jennifer in Austria
My grandma was poor as, so she had lard sandwiches all the time. She, however, was ridiculously skinny and quite beautiful, and lived to be 94. Doctors said she had the heart of someone 30 years younger.
LOL I had to chuckle at that one – my Grandma was always trying to get us to eat more food too. But I think for her it was more of a social thing – she knew that to get us to talk to her, pour out our hearts, etc – it makes things a whole lot better when you’re eating a fresh baked slice of sourdough bread and homemade strawberry jam!
But my Grandpa, he was interesting – he loved food SO much, like the all you can eat buffet places were a dream for him. Man, he could pack it in!
But – every single day he went down to the mall and walked about 8 miles early in the morning. He was early to rise, early to bed. He said he did it so that he could eat the food he wanted and enjoy it without gaining a lot of weight. Both of them lived to be in their mid 70′s and early 80′s.
I love this post! My Grandmother always said the same thing after dinner: “The kitchen is closed!” Once the main meal was over and everything was cleaned up, you were not allowed in the kitchen for the rest of the day. I think for her it was mainly about not making a mess after she had cleaned up, but it’s good advice, as it eliminates mindless snacking during prime TV hours.
My grandma lived too far away to offer nutritional advice and was both a terrible cook and eater herself, but my mom the ex-nurse knew plenty. (And I’ve nearly forgiven her for all the green-bean associated trauma from my childhood, now.)
“No more than two cookies” (all hers were homemade, and small by current standards).
“Go play outside/go ride your bike/go get some fresh air, you’ve been in the house too long.”
“If you have seconds of dessert tonight, you won’t have any for tomorrow night.” (Pies, e.g., were always made to last two meals. Easy enough when there were only four of us.)
“Your eyes are bigger than your stomach”
So true. I usually *want* to eat much more than I *need*.
WWGS?
“Stop it, or you’ll go blind!”
Wait, I don’t think I’m doing it right.
My grandma lived to be 96 years old. While she loaded lots of things with butter, and ate lots of carbs, she still didn’t eat very much food. That seems to be consistent with most of the research on long and healthy living.
“Eat your carrots, their great for your eyesight and you can be like bugs bunny!” haha
When asking for a glass of soda, my Grandma would say to us kids, “Just a dribble,” and then proceed to pour the smallest glass of Pepsi you ever saw. Super frustrating to my 8-year-old mind, but totally right.
She was also in the first female baseball league in America, so if we sat in the house for more than 10 minutes she would turn off the TV and tell us, “Get off your butts and get outside!” Often, she played baseball in the streets with us for hours.
Grandma rocked!
My grand-ma is 95, very healthy and alert, she has no clue what new nutrition trends are and wouldn’t even understand what the expression means…she eats everything, mayo, bacon, cream sauce, cakes etc. but in such small portions, everytime I watch her eat I’m amazed at how she is in tune with her hunger body signals…as Brad taught us frugal eating improves longevity..
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“Once they re gone they re gone”. (Mum reffering to the packet of tim tams in the fridge i opened up after doing the weekly shopping for us).
My mum always trys to feed me up when i come home for visits. Home made pizza, scones, Pavlova, chocolate cake. I swear she’s deliberately planning this all out to keep me home more LOL.
My best friend I grew up with was pretty lean. His grandmother would say:
“Leave something on the plate for Mrs. Manner.”
“Eat all your colors.”
My grandmother, on the other hand, would say:
“Finish your pound cake before leaving the breakfast table!”
“Clean your plate; there are starving children in Africa.”
Best,
Johnny
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My grandmom always said “Sit down and enjoy your food.” She never understood how us Americans (she’s Greek) eat on the go. Basically, she’d rather skip a meal than eat it on the run or in the car – food is meant to be nourishment and enjoyment.
My grandma liked to drink so the things she said regarding food weren’t the best.
My grandma grew up in a relatively poor fishing village in northern Norway, and they would eat freshly caught white fish 7 days a week (though on Sunday it was fried in butter – the decadence!). Her number one advice is that the number of days a week you eat fish should be > the number of days a week you eat meat (My grandma is such a traditional Norwegian it pretty much goes without saying that both *must* be paired with boiled potatoes and veggies). And I guess seeing as she is and always has been incredibly healthy (can’t remember her even having a cold as long as I’ve lived) and active, maybe I should take my grandma’s advice.
The fact that she still (at 78) goes for a jog and ocean swim every day except Christmas Eve (Doubly impressive because, dude, Norway is COLD in the winter!) might be contributing too