Day 70: eating for gut health

I’ve been binge listening to DeliciousElla podcast during my morning runs. There was an episode about gut health that got me interested. It says we need to consume 30+ type of plant source of food per week to have a diverse healthy gut. I wonder how many do I consume. So I think I’ll challenge myself to eat as varied food as possible for a week and record them to see if I can hit 30. Yesterday I took day off from work and had a slow morning. While cooking lunch, I made breakfast waffle for the family. We got fresh vegetable delivered on Wednesday so I had a large salad as part of lunch with carrot ginger dressing. last time I made using fresh ginger but run out yesterday and used powder and it was not as good a while after lunch I felt I need something more substantial, so had few of these pancakes with almond butter had watermelon for snack and dinner was two parts. Part 1 was stir fry rice with mixed vegetables and tofu with tons of nutritional yeast and black pepper. part 2 was baked pumpkin with cinnamon after dinner, daddy make crab apple just for fun Type of whole food consumed

• zucchini
• pumpkin
• oat
• almond butter
• quinoa
• lettuce
• tomato
• cucumber
• purple cabbage
• carrot
• tofu
• coconut flour (in pancake)
• avocado
• green pea
• corn
• cauliflower
• brown rice
• watermelon

wooo! 18 already! While a lot of these are my staples, I think hitting 30 won’t be too hard for a week challenge. Can’t wait to try new food tomorrow.