Build health by making this salad a daily staple

I’ve gotten a couple comments on various YouTubes about eating.

Now, I’m not a diet guy. I hate the word. You can’t go on a diet. You’re on a diet–always. So, no big fan of any of that nonsense.

What I am a fan of is simple things that you can do for health that taste good and have a good bang for your buck.

First, I got the idea from Tilden which was the Tilden Salad. But Tilden is a bit boring. And I found this staple lacking after some time. I was bored, constrained.

Then, I read in Brooks Kubik’s Gray Hair Black Iron about his salad. It was lettuce and herbs and a bison burger.

Hmmm. So now it’s evolved.

So, here’s how it works. I cook the burger on the stove, like this:

While this is happening, I’m chopping veggies.

Now, the veggies are a matter of variety and preference. Today was radish, garlic, tomato, broccoli sprouts (not pictured), celery, and red onion. Often, I’ll add herbs, which is the idea I got from Kubik. Sage, cilantro, basil…mmm – it’s just tasty and healthy as hell.

I cut up the veggies while the burger cooks. I flip it once. While the burger is cooking, I prepare the plate:

That’s one salubrious salad. I get about 3-5 of those per week. I’ll add a burger, fish, lentils, or chicken to this salad. I just put it on top. I’m over the complication. Make a kick ass salad and put some meat on top (or “meat” in the case of the lentils).

Now, the final step:

Yeah, that’s ketchup on there, too. Deal with it. I put ketchup on my burger and eat it with the salad. Ketchup has sugar, so I watch it. But I’m not a saint. Ketchup tastes terrible on its own but with some meat, OMG, it’s delicious. So I eat it, sparingly but joyfully.

So when my kids see me eat this and then hear me say, “Eat your veggies,” it’s not a do as I say not as I do proposition. It’s follow the leader, pal.

Anyway, I’ve gotten some questions on this and I think if you’re gonna dial something in, dial in this type of salad with some meat on top. It’s tasty, it’s healthy, it’s quick, it’s simple, it reduces all the complication. I find unnecessary complication abhorrent.