Listen to your Cave Sense
November 19th, 2009 § 1 Comment
CAVE SENSE OF SELF
How much should you consume?
Don’t listen to all the mindless articles and “well-researched” advice on portions and all of that nonsense, if we may be so eloquent. Our bodies were designed to eat and drink an optimal amount that is different for everybody. Translation – no set amounts work for everybody.
S o when Jenny Craig tells you to eat 3 portions of this and 2 portions of that before they try to get you to buy, guess what – it might, or might not, work for you. Here at Cave Chow we don’t care what you weigh or how much you eat, all we care about is are you LISTENING to your body when you eat?
The cave generations didn’t have heart rate monitors, diet plans, and body fat indicators, and they weren’t treated like babies by the media either. The pathetic way people in this country are addressed by advertising and the media in regards to their health is absolutely shameful, and we have no-one to blame but oursleves.
So let’s snap out of it – and listen to our bodies for a change. Some simple rules that are all you need:
- Don’t eat unless you are hungry, and you will know if you are hungry! Given the same amount of food, active people will need more food than non active people. If you weigh 160 but are doing 2 a day workouts, you’ll be consuming more food than your 200 lb couch-bound peer, because your body needs it, and it will tell you.
- Do NOT overeat – the great sin of many Americans today. Food is fuel, it is sustenance – but if you aren’t doing anything that requires much energy (i.e. get up, go sit at a desk, come home, sit on your couch, go to bed), you don’t need a lot of food. Discipline yourself to eat only when you are hungry, until you feel full, then stop. Its an acquired sense, so pay attention to the body. Learn to listen to it and it will take care of you. A shortcut – if it’s hard to take a deep breath, stop eating.
You don’t need diets, eating plans, or specialized food to be a healthy person in great shape. You need common sense and you need to be adverse to laziness.
Don’t be wasteful – eat as your life energy requires.
Cave Cook
Cave Lunches are great conversation starters
November 19th, 2009 § Leave a Comment
CORPORATE CAVE MAN
Do you spend many of the sunlight hours in the corporate world? Do the hallways, bland colors, cube walls, conference rooms, and constant references to “synergy”, “optimization”, and “business model” drive you a little crazy? Well they damn well should! Cave Chow Lunches are a great way to shake things up a little bit, at least during the lunch hours.
Lunches at work – whether you prepare your own or head out to lunch, can be somewhat lacking for conversation topics. Some of us have been there, and we know there is nothing more depressing than a forced conversation. NOW - Bring some delicious cave chow to work. Trust us, when you sit down in a group of people with 3 hardboiled eggs, a peanut butter sandwich, and an apple, for some reason, people will be like, “haha, what is THAT?”. For some reason, people are quite fascinated by the idea of food in its utmost simplicity– its simply an anomaly to most that they’ve never before thought about.
It leads to great conversation for all. Some great responses to common questions -
- Would you like some?
- What, you never have this for lunch?
- Yep, I made it myself!
- I might be able to share the recipe.
Trust me, they will all be fascinated and slightly jealous.
Cave Cook
Cave Shopping – gathering by the pound
November 17th, 2009 § 3 Comments
CAVE SHOPPING SECRETS
In a true cave man’s world, it didn’t cost anything to hunt and gather, but the less good you were at farming, fishing, hunting, or trapping, the longer time it took and the less you came back with. While many of us wish that we this type of system was still in place, sadly it is not.
Food gathering has actually not changed all that much in the last 2,000 years. While there are less dinosaurs and belligerent tribesman chasing you through each isle, you are being pursued by something just as sinister – very smart, targeted advertising and packaging, designed and deployed to coerce you into spending the most $ on the least amount of quality food. Sad but true.
We can cut through all this by shopping PRICE PER POUND – an efficient, time tested, Cave Man’s value measurement system.
- Pricing by the pound is the great equalizer in food retail – you simply cannot go wrong. It can’t deceive you. There are no way to disguise how much a packaged item of food weighs – our beloved FDA has made it mandatory for companies to put the weight on the package.
- This price/weight ratio will exactly what you are getting for your money, and it’s a phenomenal way to control cost and find the best deals on the Food that Sustains You.
- We highly recommend using a basket instead of a cart when you shop, so you can accurately gauge the weight of your buy. Yes, the wheel barrow was a caveman invention, but it is not applicable in this case.
OK, so lets walk through this:
- A loaf of bread, costing $3, and weighing 12 ounces – NOT, a good deal. Another loaf with the same amount of slices, weight 24 ounces, for $3 – a GOOD deal. Cave Chow approved.
- A box of cereal for $3.99 that weighs 14 oz (there are 16 oz in a pound, and oz stands for – ounce) – NOT a good deal. A box of the same size, weighing 20 oz, for $2.99 – a GOOD deal.
Once you start thinking about this, you see some very big differences as you move from item to item. Smart marketers are incredibly tuned in to what you get vs. what you pay, and their optimization formulas do not work in your favor. Shoot for around $1/pound and you will be shopping pretty efficiently. Get under a dollar consistently, and should feel quite satisfied with yourself.
All of the discussion above, of course, assumes that you are buying items on the approved Cave Chow List.
Cheers,
Cave Cook.
FOOD – Not for your enjoyment.
November 16th, 2009 § 4 Comments
CAVE FOOD
Yes, that is correct:
Food, is not, for your, enjoyment. Taste funny? Oh, you are going to love the rest.
A general disregard for how food tastes, is generally, the founding principle for the movement of “Food to Sustain You” – which is a general promotion of delicious items of food for your daily sustenance. Here are the basic principles:
- Food’s general purpose, obviously, is to sustain you – the only NECESSARY function of food
- Our society has created a certain expectation that “food should taste good”, and consequently, the general view that food that does not “taste good”, is not worthy of consumption. Some things they conveniently forgot to mention: A – making food taste “good”, typically costs more, B – the ingredients that most people would agree makes food taste “good” are typically, bad for your health, and C – that “good tasting” food, takes more time to make.
OK, so if that is the general consensus, what is my opinion? My opinion is, simply, that, 90% of the time (allotting some time for your occasional meal out and some treats, of course) should be: Very easy on the wallet, very good for you (regardless of the taste), and very simple to prepare. If you’re an athlete, you will appreciate these truths up front. However, if you are not, or have never been in good enough shape to necessitate this type of eating, here some some excellent, additional bonuses you will enjoy:
- As your taste buds become somewhat numb to what you currently consider “bad-tasting”, or “bland” food, you will appreciate, so much more, your 10% of food that you get in restaraunt. A hamburger? With ketchup? Are you serious? AWESOME!!!!
- That’s the only additional benefit that comes to mind, but it’s an important one. I bet you would appreciate a brand new Mercedes, right? Well, if you already had 2 of them, would you appreciate so much? I don’t think so. It’s like wiping your palate clean at a wine tasting – except we are wiping your entire set of taste buds clean from a lifetime of deceit.
So, to summarize, what Cave Chow will do for you, is let you eat cheap, healthy, eventually delicious food, that will not only power you through your day, but will make you so ever more excited to dine out (especially you ladies, I know you lover your girl out dinners).
A brief word of caution before you start to partake:
- The going can be painful for some people – don’t crack. It’s like working out… except it’s mental, and its finishing what’s on your plate. Don’t be wasteful.
- This program is probably not for you if: you are lazy, out of shape and not caring, have a lot of money and no investment smarts, think that McDonalds hamburgers are actually made out of real food, or if you think eating food is some kind of style contest.
Basically, adopt the Cave Chow “Food to Sustain You” mantra and you will be living a healthier, drama-free, financially smart, and more appreciative cuisine lifestyle.
Hey, if cave-men and women could do it 2,000 years ago, we shouldn’t have a problem replicating it, what with all of our “smarts”, and all.
Cave Cook.
