Don't Waste It

Hi, this is Dr. Daniels, and you're listening to Jamming with Jen. This is the Saturday, February 20th, 2022, edition. Yay!

Today's topic is Don't Waste It. Yes, the healthiest part of our food is often tossed away, and today we're going to talk about how to capture the good stuff. But first, let's check up on mom.

Oh my gosh. So, mom has officially declared that she intends to live quite a bit longer, and we're all in support of that. Her health continues to improve, which means that she now only needs someone to help around the house, which means it's quite a bit less expensive for her to have the help and assistance she needs. She's now under $1,000 a month in whatever outside help or care she needs. So that's a major breakthrough, and we're all thrilled. Yay, mom, go for it.

This should be an inspiration to anyone that, you know, someone who comes home from the hospital comatose with heavy morphine prescriptions can turn it around. So that's really great. The grandkids are rotating, just visiting her to check on her. So about once every month or so, at least one grandkid pops in to say hi and check everything out, and make sure her technology is working. And she, of course, also has an adult daughter who stays with her. So that helps a lot too. Yay, mom, go for it.

Then we have an update on what I'm doing. I'm really excited that my center splits are going along very well. I'm able to get closer to the ground, but even better than that, it's no longer painful, and I can actually get out of my center splits without assistance. So, major breakthrough—progress. I hope those of you who are 64 and older, as I am, will take this as encouragement that you too can, you know, go for it. Do what you want with your life. Anything's possible.

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That brings us to today's topic, Don't Waste It. The healthiest part of the food is often tossed away, and we're going to talk today about how to capture the good stuff. And as always, think happens.

First thing to understand is that your food is often processed in the store before you even buy it. So if you are a meat eater, you want to buy either organ meats or meats that have the bone and skin attached. If it's boneless and skinless, not a good call. I'll give you an example of what happened.

Well, first of all, where I was—I used to be vegan. Yay, great cleansing diet. Wonderful. I felt great the first, I would say, six months to three years on it. I felt really good. And then I started gradually declining, declining, declining, declining. And so now I do eat meats, but I'm very, very fussy. I insist on either organ meats or meats with the bone and skin attached. And I, of course, cook it at home.

Where do you go from there? I'll give you an example. I love chicken hearts. So I buy chicken livers, and the hearts are attached to the livers. But because of my culinary preferences, I separate the hearts and the livers and cook the hearts separately. That's just the way I like it. So I'll boil the hearts in some spices, and I just eat them like candy. I love them. Now, when you cook the hearts, you get them nice and tender. And as you bite them, there's this burst of flavor from the center, which, of course, is the blood that the heart is filled with. So then you get blood-strengthening nutrition and the nutrition from the heart as well.

But wait, there's the broth. What do you do with that? Well, I just took the broth and put it in the refrigerator so that I could skim the fat off the top. Because I don't like to always include the fat in my food because I gain weight very easily. So I'll use the fat to sauté something, but I'm going to freeze that for future sautéing. But the liquid from the giblets, or the hearts rather, I use that to boil cabbage and add flavor and nutrition to my cabbage. And if you've cooked cabbage, you know that the water easily boils out and you're left with the nutrition stuck to the cabbage. Yum, yum, yum.

Whenever I boil, bake, or pressure cook something, I always use the broth for another dish. For example, I make cow tongue. I use the broth that I boiled the cow tongue in. For those of you who might not be aware, cow tongue makes incredibly tasty broth. It has a very nice, mild flavor, and it's really just great for everything. You can throw it in spaghetti sauce, anywhere, everywhere. It just makes things better. So I use the broth in a recipe for beef stew.

Now, beef stew calls for beef, which would be meat—the flesh meat. But I said, no, no, no, I'm going to up-level this. So we've got the broth in our beef stew from, let's say, yesterday or last week's cow tongue. Instead of using beef roast chunks for the beef stew, I use the solid parts of bones. So I literally buy a bag of beef bones, and then I brown them just like the beef stew recipe calls for. And then, as they boil and simmer and the meat falls away from them, I pull out the bones and just chop the meat, returning it to the stew. And what this does is the connective tissue and collagen that I've returned to the stew has two effects. First of all, the meat is a lot cheaper because it's bones. And it's also healthier.

It's really amazing that I can actually feel a difference in my teeth feeling stronger that evening and the next day after I ate beef stew. Also, I could feel it in my exercises in that my center splits were deeper and pain-free. Those of you who've tried center splits know they're very painful, especially when you're beginning. So eating this material that would otherwise be wasted is really a great benefit. So don't waste it. Don't waste any broth. Use it to cook your vegetables. Even when you cook vegetables, by the way, if you have extra liquid left over, you can use that liquid to cook future vegetables to enhance the nutritional value. Also, you can use it as a liquid for your rice when you cook your rice and to cook your beans. You can use these parts that are thrown away, whether it's vegetable or meat.

Now, it may be a stretch for modern first-world people, but in the past, people would literally eat the meat off the bone, then toss the bones on a plate in the center of the table, and this would be boiled up to make soup. Sounds gross? Maybe, but no osteoporosis in that household. So do your best and feel the difference in your health and your strength. It is just amazing. At the ripe old age of 64, I definitely attribute my increased physical strength and abilities to not wasting it.

Okay, that brings us to questions. Yay! And if my cursor can just curse, I would be happy.

Q: Dr. Daniels, I've been thinking about relocating to Panama in these crazy times. Could you tell me if you can stay injection-free in Panama, and do they require face diapers? I've been considering life outside of the U.S.

A: So they do still require face diapers in public, although it's not enforced, and there are no vaccine passports.

All right, that is it for questions, and we'll see you again next week. And as always, think happens.