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UMAMI DIET. . .the first diet based on good taste

a savory taste, is one of the five basic tastes (together with sweet, sour, bitter and salty).

A loanword from the Japanese (うま味^?), umami can be translated as "pleasant savory taste".

PREMISE: FINALLY LOOK FORWARD TO FLAVOR, THINK AND ENJOY.  PLAN IF YOU NEED, BUT MOSTLY BE CONSCIOUS AND LOVE THE EXPERIENCE OF THE FLAVOR.  THE FIRST DIET BASED ON GOOD TASTE.

THE DIET IS SIMPLE- EVERYDAY HAVE SOMETHING THAT FITS IN THE 5 FLAVOR SENSORS-  THINK, NOTE AND ENJOY SWEET, SALTY, SOUR BITTER AND ALWAYS UMAMI.  ONE OF EACH OF THE 4 BASICS, AND LOGICAL AMOUNTS OF UMAMI.

As you go through your day just simply keep track of your 4 tastes plus umami.  EXPERIENCE all four tastes and you are done for the day.  If you need a snack, always umami

FOODS HIGH IN UMAMI:  meats and vegetables. Umami taste is most notably in fish, shellfish, cured meats, mushrooms, vegetables (e.g., ripe tomatoes, Chinese cabbage, spinach, celery, etc.) or green tea, and fermented and aged products (e.g., cheeses, shrimp pastes, nutritional yeast, soy sauce, etc.).

EXAMPLE

DAY 1

breakfast:  egg (umami) and strawberries (sweet)

Lunch: arugula (bitter) and turkey (umami)

snack: tomatoes (umami) and  1 oz cheese (umami)

Dinner:  Fish with lemon (umami and sour) and cabbage with seasame oil and sunflower seeds (salty)

DAY 2

Breakfast:  Blueberries (sweet) and plain, full-fat yougurt (umami)

Lunch: Kimchi, (sauer and umami)

snack: cashews (salty) and jerky (umami)

Dinner: Miso soup with tofu (umami) and apricot kernels (bitter)

Snack: 90% cocoa (bitter and umami)

DAY 3

Breakfast: egg (salty) - fried and a tomato broiled (umami)

Lunch: tuna (umami) and flax crackers 

Snack: apple (sweet) and bittersweet chocolate chips (bitter)

Dinner: veggie patty (umami) and parmesan crisps (salty/umami) 1/2 small potato (umami and yummy)

CHALLENGES:  It is hard to not have heavy rules, limits.  It is also hard for some to always remember to eat healthy,  For me that is easy for I love and naturally gravitate to healthy foods.

Starting the Umami diet Sunday.  I am excited, but undefined. I love the diet notebook. . . the place where all my best diets start- a clean slate, literally.  The notebook serves as my councilor, ruler, guide and judge.  I write the rules of the diet, add lots of dates and finish with some sort of outlined plan of my food existence for the duration.  Obviously I would want all these burned if I die unexpectedly- totally humiliating.

our first chat. . .

So you meet- you and and new friend.  Right away you know you have something in common. Weather she is 20 or 200 pounds overweight, you know her.  You gravitate to the Chubby Buddy like an orbiting satellite caught in the gravity of it's closest planet.  This is your kin.  

We've done this- when we find ourselves in a group setting not knowing anyone, chubbies like chubbies., birds of a feather, like minds etc.  You can see evidence of this everywhere.  Just look around, at restaurants, shopping malls, playgrounds- the chubbies hang with chubbies, skinny with skinny. And NO they aren't all relatives.  These are groups of friends who have found one another because of their size.

Now here's the difference between a Skinny and a Chubby reading the above.  The Skinny thinks these gals are friends because of lifestyle choices, insecurities, financial status, ambition, appearance conscienceness, lack of wanting to exercise, or whatever.

The Chubby knows this- Chubbies aren't all created equal. 

clean kitchen

I love my vintage kitchen, but I am going to give it up for something that is not in need of repair