Foodie, author and TV host, Hayden Quinn, 33, shares his day on a plate.
Hayden Quinn.
7am After a few laps at Sydney’s Manly Pool, I cook up eggs for a breakfast taco on a charred tortilla with avo, cheese, hot sauce and sour cream.
8am I make a smoothie with frozen banana, water, Vital Greens vitamin powder, pea protein powder, maca powder, cocoa, peanut butter, honey and MCT oil. This thing keeps me going for most of the morning.
12.30pm Lunch is a barbecue pork banh mi with chilli on the most epic crusty baguette from the Vietnamese spot on the Corso in Manly.
4pm A banana for afternoon tea.
5.30pm I finish the day with a session at the gym, then have another banana.
7.45pm Dinner is crispy skin pork belly with sautéed Swiss chard plus roast potatoes. I generally have a wine with dinner but have been having a little too much of the good stuff lately, so refrain. Off to bed at 9.15pm.
Dr Joanna McMillan says …
Top marks for … Getting through the afternoon on two bananas rather than
resorting to ultra-processed snack foods. Bananas are rich in nutrients including potassium, which is essential for healthy blood pressure; they also provide fibre – including resistant starch(especially if still firm) for a healthy gut – and slow-release carbohydrates for energy.
If you keep eating like this you’ll … Miss out on the protective effects of a broader variety of whole plant foods. The powders and oil in your smoothie are not the same as eating whole foods in their natural or minimally processed form. The evidence for any benefit from maca powder or MCT oil is scant.
Why don’t you try … Adding fresh vegetables to your smoothie – possibilities include leafy greens, celery, mint and cucumber – plus fruit such as an apple or pear. This would be far superior to all those powders. Rather than having pork twice in a day, opt for an oily fish at one meal to boost healthy fats.
Hayden Quinn is an ambassador for Starlight’s Sugar Free Me, encouraging Australians around the country to go sugar-free during November.
This article appears in Sunday Life magazine within the Sun-Herald and the Sunday Age on sale October 27.
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