Konstantin's Diet

Konstantin asked me to address his diet in this blog. We get many questions regarding his diet and nutrition and this is the best way to make sure that anyone interested has access to that information.

Konstantin has always maintained a very healthy diet. Non of his choices are based on anything other than what he feels his body needs. He always listens to his body. He does not smoke, drinks in moderation, maybe a glass or two of wine or a bottle of beer a week. No soda. He loves coffee and until very recently had a cup or two every day. He drinks a lot of tea every day. Mostly white and green herbal teas, at least 4 cup a day. He no longer consumes red meet and pork.

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Now his preference do change from time to time. For instance, red meet and pork he ate all of his life, but just few weeks ago all of a sudden did not feel like it anymore. So for the time being he completely excluded both from his diet.
He tries to consume as little processed sugars as possible. No while, brown or artificial sweeteners, no honey.
We use Stevia - a natural sweetener and love it.

Here are some staples of our diet. I say "our" diet because the whole family follows the same diet. For the most part I cook. Konstantin love to cook, but has little time for it. We eat rice pasta or wheat pasta. Sweet potatoes, yams. Beans. Buckwheat. Millet.

  Quinoa instead of rice. Not much bread and only whole grain. Chicken, turkey, some eggs. No cow's milk, instead rice or soy milk. Goat cheese and goat yogurt.
As much fruits and vegetable as possible. Almonds and sunflower seeds. Sunflower butter instead of peanut butter - and it is delicious. Our oldest daughter loves it.

Some of these changes came after Konstantin, myself and our oldest daughter all one by one had an appointment with a natural health nutritionist. Sports nutrition, "healthy diet" and the natural health nutrition are entirely different.
The nutritionist came highly recommended, we have heard about that office for years and finally decided it was time to make an appointment. We all have being extremely happy with the results.

One thing I must add is that we do not for the most part buy organic. It is still very expensive and we believe that there are many beneficial changes which we can make in our diet without spending too much money. As much as we would love to buy local and organic to support local farmers - they are just a bit out of our price range.