For my brood – Yvan (10), Guy (9), Marcus (8) and Ines (4) – I've slunk back to some rather basic, if wholesome, crowd-pleasers over the past decade.
In the real world, health, weight control, and lifelong vitality are achieved on diets that vary considerably in macronutrient composition, but that all adhere to the same basic theme: wholesome foods, in sensible combinations, plant foods predominating.
At least the basic diet of wholesome food keeps people thin, in a western world on the brink of an obesity epidemic we could learn from this.
But the basics of a wholesome diet are nearly universal: lots of vegetables, fruits and whole grains, with reasonable amounts of protein -- meat, poultry, fish, dried beans and peas, nuts, eggs and cheese -- and prepared with small amounts of a heart-safe vegetable oil, like canola or olive oil.
The chicken breast with roasted peppers, big hunks of artichoke hearts and mushrooms was wholesome, if basic.
In some of the pictures at Tibet House, hallucinogenic images of basic human functions -- birth, sex, death -- look wholesome, even bland; it's as if Norman Rockwell were collaborating with Hilma af Klint.
Converting, say, Taiwanese Buddhists is much tougher: they find basic Christian doctrine strange and unpalatable.Some people find the Mormons' emphasis on wholesome family life attractive.
Food science is the application of basic science and engineering principles to the creation and maintenance of a safe, abundant and wholesome food supply.
Everyday wholesome snacks for every wholesome family.
