Blue Zones eating

After reading the Blue Zones Solution, I decided to try to make at least 8 or 9 meals a week Blue Zones approved, meaning lots of beans and healthy fat from avocados, olive oil and fish.  I should start to add in way more fresh fruits and veggies, and I did this morning with tomatoes.  It's really convenient to eat like this when opening cans, but I should really convert over to dried beans and fresh fish.  Still, good quality food tastes great, even with simple things.

I think if I vary these things with other legumes (soybeans, lentils, navy beans, garbanzos and hummus), vary the oily fish from sardines and salmon to maybe some small Japanese fish, and maybe sometimes incorporating rice and pickled Japanese and Korean vegetables, this would be a really good way to keep this kind of eating habit interesting.

First is a sourdough toast with olive oil, kidney beans and sardines.

 Next I did the same thing with canned salmon.

I did a Costco run and got Japanese pears, vine ripened tomatoes, gluten-free bread and avocado.

Here's kind of the same thing with kidney beans on toast.

I really love Japanese and Okinawan sweet potatoes.

And here's a meal with fresh salmon.  This was a breakfast that keeps me full from 5 a.m. until 11:30 a.m., about 6 1/2 hours!

As I get older, I really enjoy these kinds of meals!!