The ideal Irish diet - eat your way to weight loss with healthy Irish recipes
Irish food has developed a bad rap as being heavy and stodgy but this is not the case. It’s true that you can dine out on full Irish breakfasts and mashed potatoes with cream but there is much more to Irish cuisine.
In fact, the beauty of the traditional Irish diet is that it changed very little between the late 1800s and the mid-1900s. Its ingredients were based on local food or foods that could be easily imported. What was created was a simple diet made up of local and healthy foods.
Here are some healthy Irish food ideas for those of you eating your way to weight loss: 1. Stew
During these cold winter months, a hearty Irish stew is the perfect meal to come home to; what could be healthier than a pot of vegetables, broth and some lean beef.
If you’re launching yourself into an Atkins-style diet for January you can even skip adding the beloved potatoes and replace it with another vegetable.
Here’s our recipe for beef and Guinness stew. Of course you could leave the Guinness out, but come on, you don’t want to go overboard.
2. Oysters and Fish
Great for the brain and your diet - get some fish oils into you this January with some oysters or fish recipes.
Although Chef Gilligan’s chilled kumumoto oysters with sturgeon caviar and vodka recipe might be a little too fancy for a cold January evening, there’s nothing wrong with a bit of grilled salmon or cod and a side of veg. The Irish have quite a lot to add to the culinary world and indeed the primary nutriment milk and its by products provide some of the most intersting reading into the cultural nature of the Irish and Celts at large Butter churns from ireland are different than those in central Euroope but bear a striking resemblance to those used in Mongolia However the Ceili was often used to gather together people to churn butter in a pigs bladder The bladder was filled with mlilk and then either to music or to lilting the belly went from one to the other auntil it started to turn. If only the Irish of the 1845 period had used the natural goodness of the land and sea they may have prevented so much death . Works have existed on communal farming long before the Famine and yet those in the educative process concentrated on latin and greek instead of studies on brassicas or Onions or grains which allowed many French communities to avoid disette and disaster We may admire a classical link to understanding but the cost was horrendous and wanton on the part of the "educators" namely the clergy. Another case which should have opened the eyes of the ordinary guy in the street to the brainwashing effect of our elders and betters and we can see it even now in the Kenny government where the administration hold the key to the success of the Kenny Doctine and not the guy who promotes it.
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