Re: High Protein one day, Low Protein the next?

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Looking forward to your menu. Have done same in past. Wound up

using daily foodlists accumulated in DWIDP over time since in effect

you are creating a new daily menu each day.

Regarding hard to get nutrients, I try to incorporate foods with

them in other things, e.g. I make my oatmeal & wheat germ breakfast

with skim milk instead of water...(helps with the calcium and zinc)

Nuke it for 3 minutes and your set. Also, I keep a container of

cooked oysters (minerals) in the fridge and throw several in my

salads or in the stir fries, or marinara etc.

Using the DWIDP teaches you over time which foods to key in on

for certain hard to get nutrients. Then just be creative in how to

incorporate them in your diet on a regular basis. Wouldn't really

want to eat the same ole stuff prepared the same ole way daily.

That would take the pleasure out of eating. Eating less doesn't

mean eating boring or unpalatable stuff.

Take the time to prepare the food you eat rather than just eating

it out of a box for convenience. If you take the time for this, you

will automatically start choosing better quality foods and be the

better for it as well as more satisfied.

BOB

> Hi All,

>

> I am still in the process of getting a full CRON menu

together.

> Mostly I have been trying CRON foods and recipes to figure out

what I

> like and don't like. However, now I am at the stage were I want

to

> put together a CRON menu for a week and try to stick to that

menu. I

> would like to pose a question to the group regarding nutrients.

>

> What I have discovered is that some nutrients are easy to get and

> others more difficult (like calcium and Zinc). So instead of

trying

> to develop a perfectly balanced meal for a day I decided it might

be

> easier to achieve this goals if I started looking at it from the

> weekly standpoint and not just by the day.

>

> So here is the question. Let's say for my protein intake, it's

150%

> RDA for three days and the other 4 days it's 63% RDA. For a week

> that would come out to be roughly 700%. Would that work or are

there

> other issues around absorbtion that I don't realize. Also would

this

> approach work for all nutrients or just some, or none at all?

>

> Thanks,

>

> Bob

> Heinemann@h...