Many concerns for consulting a nutritionist come from the community, but among many others there is one that is repeated above the others: they do not know How to prepare a healthy menu. Something as basic as going to the supermarket to do … The purchasing process becomes a headache because what we include in the basket does not make sense, i.e. foods appear that do not match others and are not the ingredients needed to cook a particular dish.
This is what nutritionist Pablo Ojeda explains: “Making a good shopping list is the most difficult thing of all for a simple reason: people have the word diet associated with diet, with elimination, restriction, prohibition, and there are many myths about it.” The reason is that a healthy diet is a series of foods and some preparations, not just grilled chicken strips with a salad. “What’s most difficult for us is demystifying that good eating is a pleasure, and that it’s not a diet,” he says.
What makes us have a bad relationship with diets? The dietitian emphasizes the word “redesign,” because the word “diet” comes from the Greek word “díaita,” meaning “system of life.” “There is no successful diet in the world, what works is redesign. “What you need to know is that two or three times a week you need white meat, twice a week you need oily fish, and from this generalized structure, build your diet.”
“You paint your painting and you have to be clear about what colors to use. This is nutrition: giving people the colors to paint their pictures and not giving them the pictures already drawn, because then failure is certain.”
The importance of fats
Over the years, thanks to his experience in this field, he has learned how to make a good shopping list. For example, he emphasizes that eggs are always present in it, an essential ingredient that he is “very afraid of”: “You can eat eggs and you should eat eggs; Very high quality proteinIn the end, we cannot eliminate the number one chronic disease after the age of fifty: muscular dystrophy, which is destructive Muscle mass».
Fats, which are talked about a lot now, are also important for our health. As Pablo Ojeda ensures, there is no need to be afraid of fats, “they are great, like extra virgin olive oil, avocados… What you have to be afraid of is where those fats are. And that is looking at the product. The same thing happens with Monosodium glutamate. This is very bad in French fries, but tomatoes have it too…” According to the expert, we have to understand that what is often important is not the isolated nutrients, but where I find those nutrients and where I plan those nutrients.
As for looking at the signs, Pablo Ojeda is clear: “I only look when I have doubts.” “To buy fruits and vegetables you don’t have to look at anything,” he explains, but he does when it comes to canned goods, for example. In this case, he emphasizes, they always tend to be good because they are processed rather than ultra-processed: “We confuse ultra-processed with processed. Processed food is food that has undergone some procedures, but is still the original food. The liquid has been put into the preserves, boiled, and frozen, but it’s still chickpeas or fava beans. On the other hand, in ultra-processing The matrix is no longer what it used to belike a cupcake for example.
More problems in consultation
If all evils do not know how to buy correctly, look at the label or not and differentiate between the nutrients that the body needs… but the truth is that Pablo Ojeda He confirms that today there are still people who do not know where to start taking care of themselves and whose relationship with food is bad: “We all want to take care of ourselves and eat well, and although we know that we have to exercise to feel healthy, from my experience I confirm that in most cases our relationship with food is insufficient.
Where does a person begin to develop a good relationship with food? Pablo Ojeda believes that with commitment to oneself: “We are not committed to ourselves. Commit to your friend and never let her down; You stick to your family, and if you have to leave anything, you die with them; You commit to your work and you don’t fail…and the only person you don’t commit to is yourself. “We would solve many problems if we were more committed to ourselves and didn’t talk more than once.”
Culinary formulas
Now that we know what to put in our shopping cart and have committed to ourselves to learn how to eat better, it’s time to cook! The fact is that today there are hundreds of blogs offering original and healthy recipes to prepare a thousand times. “If you simply take a piece of aluminum foil, put a piece of hake on it that they sell already frozen, a little bit of oil and salt and put in a raw carrot or leek and put it in the oven for 10 minutes, you have Amazing halima in 10 minutes» Says the expert who confirms that the problem lies again in commitment to oneself.
In this sense, Pablo Ojeda has become an ambassador of Hello Fresh. He claims that he “did not know about these home recipe collections but found them very interesting because there are many people who have problems with planning and do not like to cook” and that he already had this idea before: “I discovered at the beginning that what I wanted was to create the habit of going to the kitchen and taking that personal responsibility of food”, but realizing that this is up to each individual, the most that can be done is to offer healthy options adapted to each user, as is the case with Hello Fresh, so that we can nourish better.