Tara & Guy > wrote in
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> Hubby switched to the Mediteranean diet recently. I am not good
> at figuring out menus for it, help. It's high on fresh veggies,
> low on meat/poultry/fish and spices. Nothing fried, uses whole
> wheat, brown rice. All in all, the opposite of my cooking.

You may need to read a lot more about the Med Diet. Search on Amazon
for a book about the diet and one offering recipes connected to it.
I found a few but I'm loath to recommend any as I'm not familiar with
them. Better you make your own choice. Basically, it's that
vegetable and dairy are for daily consumption, animal flesh for
occasional consumption and red meat rarely. Some of the recipes in
the Moosewood cookbook, if you have that, can tide you over with a
bit of adaptation until you sort out the diet. Anything that uses as
its base fresh vegetables, fruit, whole grains and legumes will be
healthy, no matter what. Now just watch that start a flame war :-)

See if you can find a poster of the food pyramid you can put up in
your kitchen until you know what's on it. The things it says you
should restrict to weekly and monthly does not mean you HAVE to have
them at all.

http://www.oldwayspt.org/pyramids/med/p_med.html

Of course, the assumption that longetivity is connected to diet
rather than genetics is a hopeful one, sort of like the "finding"
that the French have a lower incidence of heart attacks and
connecting that to the fact they drink wine. This ignores the fact
that Spaniards, Italians and Greeks also drink wine at meals. It
also ignores the fact that although they have a low incidence of
heart attacks (in the statistics), they also have a very high
incidence of unexplained deaths (deaths for which no autopsy has been
performed and no cause determined). I don't think the French
promoted that diet anyway. They are fixated on the Montignac diet.

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