Get started Part 2

This is a copy of a recent post that I have commented on at About.com Low Carb Diets about carbs

sunnydesertday wrote:

Thanks, Mark. Many people do eat the same foods over and over. I think it is a great idea to try new foods, cook new foods. It helps keep life a little more interesting. I am trying cauliflower “rice” and cauliflower “mashed potatoes” this week. I may like them, I may not, but I am looking forward to tasting the results.

I replied:

When I started low carb, I wasn’t going to let the few things I couldn’t eat be the limiting factor to what I could eat. Realizing that my diet up to that point had been fairly limited, I decided that I would start to look all around the world, metaphorically speaking, to find new things to try and new things to eat. So once a week, I designated a certain day when that would be the day I visited the culinary delights of a foreign land. So I got out my map of the world,  drew a line through as many countries as I could to try and circumnavigate the globe until I came back to my own doorstep. I visited France where I discovered the delights of beef bourguignon and so many other dishes. Spain, where I introduced myself to the delights of serrano ham and the delicious beef and almonds stew. Portugal for espetadas, then on to Italy for veal scallopini, only there, instead of using breadcrumbs to cover the veal, I used crushed nuts….. Really delicious!! And it was turning north, up through Eastern Europe, Germany, out through Denmark, across into Norway for a smorgasbord, right turn into Russia, well, I’m sure you get the picture.  You know, there are nearly 200 countries in the world, I think it stands at around 196 in the moment and I still haven’t visited everyone in the culinary sense and even if I only found 2 dishes from each country, it would be over a year again if I had one new meal every day before I visited the same country.

So, there’s a bit of a challenge. How many countries are you going to visit this year?

Hope that helps,

Mark