If you’re looking for something to eat for lunch, try the peaches and banana. Not only will they fill you up, but you’ll be consuming vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants and still not appreciably gain weight. Not bad if you are like me, not so young and keeping an eye on everything you eat.
Why not? After all, the body is no longer what it once was, the food grinder of a sixteen-year-old, or a twenty-six-year-old for that matter.
Cheeseburgers or egusi/melon soup with smashed yam are delicious foods, but you don’t always need to eat them, unless of course you’re lucky enough to be into manual labor.
But I’m not so lucky, since I mainly do a sedentary job. It’s not that I don’t like my job, but I do wish it came with some real physical activities—enough to constantly sweat and keep the weight off, but not so much that you tire your ankles, knees, and bones. I’ll need them when I’m ninety, like my nonagenarian friend. Well, that’s by the way.
For starters, peaches and bananas complement each other like water and cement. In combination, they will satisfy your hunger and satisfy your appetite.
If you’re wondering where to get fresh peaches and bananas, stores like Big Y, Stop and Shop are my favorites. Locate a store near you where you can easily get your supply of fresh peaches and bananas.
Until I started writing this article, I never knew that peaches could refresh the body, face, appearance of the skin, and could even slow down the aging process. You don’t need any more reasons to include peaches on your menu, do you?
One particular afternoon I was looking for something to eat for lunch instead of almonds. I usually skip lunch because I think lunch is not important, especially if you are like me, with a sedentary lifestyle. I sit all day, occasionally getting up to stretch out a hand, but quickly sitting back in a chair.
The point is that I don’t do much and therefore I don’t deserve much food. Some days, however, when she was hungry (not without guilt), she would drive to a nearby store and buy a bag or two of almonds. I’d immediately go back to the car, my finger would open the little plastic bag and decant nuts, three or five at a time, until I was done. After that, I would face the other pack and land a hit on it like I did the first one. Each bag contained 130 calories, so this little snack gave me 260 calories.
Most of the time my hunger would fade away, allowing me to continue through the day with my sedentary lifestyle of sitting on my stool, standing up occasionally if I have to emphasize a point when talking to parents and their children, doing my best. I can to alleviate, even temporarily, your physical and sometimes mental afflictions.
Do not misunderstand. There are times when I go from one consulting room to another, through the short hallway to the refrigerator to select a vaccine or reach out a hand to rummage through wall cabinets for a needle, syringe, or gloves.
No one in their right mind would call any of these activities anything but sedentary, for which a heavy load of food, such as pounded yam or Garri, or rice, goat meat, soup, chips, burgers or sandwiches would be unnecessary. That’s why I tried to keep my lunch very simple and limited to walnuts and almonds.
So that afternoon, when I was looking for what to eat instead of walnuts and almonds, my mind turned to bananas and peaches. Well, it’s not like I’ve never had bananas or peaches, but I never knew they could be such a great replacement for my two packs of almonds at around 260 calories. Somewhere in my brain, the banana and peaches had been hiding in plain sight ever since I saw my son Jermane bite into a slice of banana and my daughter Amy bite into a piece of peach.
“Is that all the peaches you bought?” He had asked Amy when I saw her eating a big peach. “Yes, dad, I’m sorry,” she said.
The next day at lunchtime, instead of buying two packets of almonds at the corner store, I went to the Stop and Shop and selected two ripe but firm peaches and a bunch of four ripe bananas. firm.
Back in my car I reached under the seats and found a half full bottle of water with which I washed the peaches. I placed one peach on a clean napkin on the front passenger seat and held the other, re-examining it for dents and soft spots, which I don’t like on fruit.
Satisfied, my teeth bit into it and I took a piece of juicy peach. What a delicious, refreshing and slightly sour taste! The velvety feel of the skin made me want to hold the fruit a bit longer, but hunger was getting the better of me.
Peaches are nutritious, with many vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants. I don’t think they are given the respect they deserve among the fruit family.
The banana is a very popular and ubiquitous fruit, so there is no need to discuss it in detail, just to say that I take the time to choose my banana as I want it exactly right, not overripe or underripe, just ripe. , and strong and easy to peel from the top, not mushy. Like peaches, bananas contain vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants.
As usual the banana did not disappoint and I ate two of the four. Shortly after my hunger passed, I began to suffer from post-gluttony despair.
Maybe I overindulged in food, sweet food that I still remember my grandmother warning me about when I was a child. I had run away to stay with her in my village in Akokwa, because I wanted to escape the scrutiny of my parents. My mother in particular would come to my room very often to see how she was doing and she would ask me: “Are you alright, my son?” even though all he wanted to know was who he was dating. Grandma never worried about any of that; she brought a bitter leaf soup with dried fish to me, her eighteen-year-old grandson: bitter leaf soup, cooked with dried fish.
Oh, I miss Grandma. Forgive me where I’ve strayed, but I thought you should understand the kind of person I am, at least a little bit of what I was when I was a child.
Compelled by the type of person I’ve become, I added up the calories and the cost of two peaches and two bananas. One peach, the size I ate, was about 70 calories, two of them, 140 calories. Let’s say one gigantic banana contains 150 calories, two would contain 300 calories. Together, two large peaches and two huge bananas add up to about 440 calories; It’s not that expensive either, all for the price of just $2.00.
Peaches and bananas fill the stomach better than two small packets of almonds. Next time you’re wondering what to have for lunch, try two peaches and two bananas. I promise you will enjoy them. If you’re a weight watcher, don’t feel guilty; you will have had a healthy meal and only consumed about 500 calories.
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