Healthy eating is a very popular topic today. More and more people strive for a healthy lifestyle. A proper diet based on the culinary traditions of our ancestors helps the body to maintain health and slow down the aging process.
How they ate in Russia in the old days
Our ancestors widely used the gifts of nature for food, which they collected in the forest, and also grew themselves. Mushrooms, berries, herbs and wild plants from the forest, vegetables and fruits from their land were their main diet. He fully satisfied their energy needs and provided the body with vitamins.
For the winter, they harvested vegetables, mushrooms and berries in the form of pickles, urinating and drying. These herbal products were available to any peasant family, because they were very inexpensive.
With the arrival of spring, the peasants replenished their bodies with vitamins, including quinoa, nettle, whitewash, plantain and other herbs in their diet. They baked bread without yeast on sourdoughs of rye flour, wheat, straw, oats, barley. The recipes for the famous Russian bread have survived to this day.
In Russia, the first dishes were presented with stews, jails, zatiruh, salomat, plum. Chowder is a light vegetable soup in water. The soup was based on simple vegetables: turnip, cabbage, lentils. Cereals such as barley, millet, oats were added to them.
Freshly prepared jail was a very common dish. This is a cold bread soup, like the modern okroshka. Bread, herbs were crumbled into water, milk or kvass and vegetable oil was poured, sometimes onions were added. Tyuryu was eaten in summer, on hot days. Men preferred jail as a hangover remedy.
Zatiukhi and salomati were cooked in poor peasant houses. Soup preparation was simple: the flour was brewed with boiling water or hot milk. Plums were prepared from decoctions of cereals, to which onions or hemp oil were added.
It is impossible to imagine Russian cuisine without porridge. Porridge was cooked in an oven in clay pots and cast iron. Many recipes for cereals that were cooked in the old days are now almost forgotten: lentil, oatmeal, bearberry, barley.
Among the Slavic peoples, spelled porridge was widely used in nutrition. Spelled is a semi-wild cereal that was the progenitor of modern wheat. The cereal contains a lot of useful substances: zinc, magnesium, calcium, potassium, iron, amino acids, fiber, vitamins B and E. Spelled porridge is not only useful, but also nutritious, since it contains a large amount of protein.
In Russian folk cuisine, the basis of food was vegetable products. Culinary recipes that have been created over the centuries are an excellent example of wholesome healthy nutrition that has survived to this day.
Geographic Power Principle
Nowadays, adherents of healthy eating adhere to the same principle by which our ancestors lived. They eat those plants that grow in their region of residence. And this is not accidental, because the human body inherits from its great-grandfathers at the genetic level a predisposition to products grown in their area.
Nutritionists and herbalists say that the food of the local region is better absorbed by the body, which receives all the necessary nutrients from it. Various specialists in the field of traditional medicine are not unambiguous in their opinions on this matter. There are claims that exotic fruits and vegetables imported from other countries should make up no more than 20-30 percent of a person's diet.
Lokavorvostvo
In modern society, loquaciousness is becoming popular. Lokavors are people who eat local food. The word "lokavorstvo" is translated from English as "local food": "local" - local, "vorare" - to eat, to eat.
The main principle of food for Lokavors is the use of products grown within a radius of no more than 200 km from their place of residence. The difference between these agricultural products is that they are always fresher and more environmentally friendly. It's no secret that vegetables and fruits imported from other regions are treated with chemicals in order to extend their shelf life.
In the old days, our ancestors mainly ate products grown in their own garden. In fact, they were in many ways locovers, as they adhered to the same principles of nutrition.
Also, their diet consisted of seasonal vegetables and fruits, which contain the maximum amount of vitamins and minerals. So it was created by nature that vegetables and fruits grown in their natural environment and ripened in due time are most useful for humans.
Correctly developing your eating habits is the key to good health. In addition, by including healthy meals in your food, you can make your menu more varied and delicious.
