When it comes to food, I am a really too simple-minded. I think that is a good thing. Yet it can be boring. Which of course is why I like boring food to begin with:  It is simple.

I don’t particularly like eating at restaurants. They always seem overpriced to me. Maybe a better way to put is I that usually never see the value in it. The value for me, that is.

I was a vegetarian for about ten years. It was a difficult journey in a land of omnivores. My wife at the time, Stacey, was very supportive when I changed over – not because she joined me, or heard the same voices I heard – rather she adapted her, and our family’s, lifestyle around mine. I really appreciated that, nonetheless it was still difficult navigating a course through menu’s that always seemed to include meat.

My mom always asked me the same thing:  “You can still eat fish right?”

Sigh.

With a young family, fast food joints were always easy for us on the watch, the wallet and the mind. We used to do Wendy’s a lot because I could eat baked potatoes and Frosty’s; or Burger King because they used to have a veggie burger on the menu. Maybe they still do?  And fries don’t have meat in them – see where the difficulties arise?

I started eating meat again when I needed to lose a bunch of weight (the result of vegetarian bread and beer). I went on a very strict diet and exercise program that I felt needed to include protein from meat. I’ve been eating meat ever since, never very much, and rarely beef, but I am very close to being a total vegetarian again – and on the path toward vegan.

I’ve also been single again for almost 9 years now and cooking for yourself creates a whole other set of challenges that most of you are either familiar with or can figure out for yourself.

So my food-eating principles are pretty clear-cut. I eat as clean as possible:  Little or no processed foods. I like to jumble up all the nutrients my body needs into one dish or serving. I like to keep things simple.

So this means I usually prepare my meals en masse and then store them in single-serving containers to eat later. So it was this morning. I thought I’d share this very simple vincemeal with you.

Ingredients

– Two hands full of white potatoes, boiled then mushed up.

– A can of kidney beans, low sodium and rinsed anyway.

– Two carrots roasted.

– Turmeric, black pepper, red pepper seeds/flakes, ginger.

That’s it. Mixed together and as you can see, partitioned out into one serving for breakfast and four for later over the next few days. I was going to add some more protein by frying up some tempeh, but eh, I’ll use that for something else later.

Simple is as simple does.

Boring but that’s how I like it. A few dollars and I’ve got 5 meals. To me, this is more satisfying than anything I can get in a restaurant.

How do you like it?

Take care and seek peace my friends,

Vince