Comments on: Your Grandpa’s Diet Plan

By: Seth

Seth — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 22:01:57 +0000

What a great article. This is exactly how we enjoy food in my family. Fresh, healthy ingredients and appropriate portions, plus moderate exercise, will maintain a trim physique. There’s nothing like a grilled steak, roasted potatos, and a pint of Guinness. Eat until you’re satisfied.

By: Angelia Sparrow

Angelia Sparrow — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 01:04:09 +0000

Mike OD, I’ll remember the egg-white crack when you want a meringue pie. 8)

Vegetables and whole grains, reasonable amounts of protein. It’s all very sensible. Im doing Weight Watchers and that’s basically the same advice.

My grandparents had a huge garden and while I didn’t like everything that came out of it, we all ate it. My grandmother was a bank-teller and my grandfather drove a rural mail route, doing less physical labor on the job than I do. At home was another story. They had a 5 acre place with garden, chickens, goats/cows/horses (at various times), gooseberry bushes and a small orchard. I have a suburban lot with a single apple tree and about 50 sq. feet of garden. They farmed. I write novels.

“Don’t eat anything Grandpa wouldn’t know was food?” My grandfather ate C-rations. His definition of food was VERY flexible.

By: T.B.

T.B. — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 18:00:30 +0000

My grandfather ate the same breakfast every morning (at exactly 6 a.m.), with slight variations. Sometimes it was Farina instead of “porridge.” Sometimes it was tea instead of Postum. Eggs, meat, toast and butter. Then he’d sit and digest, look at the birds in the feeder, then work in his huge garden till noon. Eat. Hour-long nap, or just sit in “his” chair daydreaming. Then more work in the garden. Dinner at 6. He needed all those calories, working on his hands and knees all day. And the fresh vegetables! Yeah, man. I still have some of his Woolrich shirts.

By: adam

adam — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 21:58:58 +0000

Bacon is bacon is bacon. In moderation. Let’s not think that just being “nostalgic” and asking myself “what would grandpa do” is not always the answer. Yes, some people in the past died old on that method…this could be genetic. A lot of people in my family died in the South at young ages due to heart disease…and trust me they worked on the farm. Guess what their morning diet was? Eggs, bacon and lard biscuits…..Moderation.

By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 15:57:53 +0000

“Bacon is high in salt and high in fat. Some things, in any degree of “moderation” cause nothing but harm. For example, heroin.”

(A) Comparing bacon to heroin is just fanatical.
(B) Or maybe not, as even opiates can be good in moderation. They’ve been used for centuries for their painkilling/medicinal values. Have you ever had codeine cough syrup? In fact most legal and illegal narcotics can be beneficial in moderation and when used for proper purposes. Marijuana for pain and relief from nausea. Ecstasy has been used to help struggling couples. Even cocaine, if used moderately, is a great hangover cure; the reason it was originally put in Coca Cola. I could go on, but you get the idea. Moderation is key.