These foods will build the body you deserve
What's in your basket?
Last year one of my most popular posts was The NEW Food Pyramid. Lots of questions about it ever since. Often it’s something along the lines of
“What should I eat now?!”
The Pointman grocery list
You might not lift weights or strength train
You might not sprint, jump, walk, or move much
You might not train sports or martial arts
…But you do eat
… And you can change what you put in your mouth
Here is a short but comprehensive list of what you should be buying at the grocery store. I buy some version of this every week.
Put this on your grocery list right away!
Other important additions:
Salt
Spices
Honey
Sparkling water
Coffee
Tea
Naughty dessert list:
Super high quality cheese
Super high quality dark chocolate
Super high quality sourdough bread
Super high quality wine
My personal system
I love delicious food just as much as anyone else. I’m just smarter about it because I know what’s going on in the food system. And I know that cooking real food at home is easy and more decadent and delicious than anything you can get in the large majority of restaurants. These are the two core concepts to my system.
Most of the items in the grocery store are poison. Like 90%+
The funny thing about nature is that the most basic foods are the most nutritious and will make you the most prosperous. The funny thing about grocery stores is they make the most healthy foods of nature least accessible, because they make more much money on processed foods and poison foods. Many studies have shown: avoid the interior aisles, shop the outside perimeter.
Restaurants sell poison food by design.
The reality for restaurant owners is they need to maximize their margins and make food that sells. It’s not their job to make healthy food. One of the biggest problems are seed oils. Seed oils are a very recent invention, they are used as a super cheap cooking fat now, but actually were originally produced as toxic engine lubricant. I’m not joking. Thomas Keller is one of America’s greatest chefs and culinary icons, and owner of the French Laundry. His MasterClass is a friggin master piece! It is one of the finest shows I have ever watched, but in it he cooks with disgusting canola oil in nearly every recipe. If the finest chef in America uses literal highly toxic ingredients, you can be sure that all other restaurants do too.
(Sidenote: eventually people will catch on, hopefully. When or if they do, there will be an interesting trend over the next few years or so of restaurants moving away from toxic seed oils, and they will use it in their marketing. This will be exciting!)
So this is what I do:
Most of the time, I cook and meal prep at home. I buy groceries that are pure unprocessed whole foods. This is about 80% of my meals.
I eat out several times per week. I eat whatever I want, as long as it is protein forward. Restaurants should be a treat, not a hardship. This is about 20% of my meals.
Let’s say I eat on average 21 meals per week, maybe 4-5 of those meals will be restaurant food. This is very sustainable. And the food I make at home is super bomb.
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*Chef’s kiss* 🤌🏼🤌🏼🤌🏼
Been moving in this direction over the past couple months. Saved that image as a grocery list 😎