Food Combinations for Improved Digestion

I've come across so many great paleo/healthy food blogs in recent times that my blogger feed is now bombarded with healthy recipes of every kind! This, of course, is a good thing, and at the very least it encourages me to be slightly more experimental when it comes to the murky area that is cooking. Particularly cooking sans-flour, sans-sugar, low-carb, with all-natural ingredients...and so on. You get my drift.

The latest blog on my radar is Detoxinista, and I absolutely adore everything Megan has to offer! Her background knowledge seems pretty vast, as well, so as well as gaining some decent culinary tricks, you'll probably learn a thing or two in terms of your diet.

One post of note that really hit home for me addresses food combinations for a healthy gut and improved digestive system. I think digestion is a problem that affects many of us, including me, and it's partly down to the fact our meals incorporate a variety of foods that all have different digestion times. Watching TV shows like Supersize VS Superskinny (a guilty pleasure of mine), it's shocking to see the lack of knowledge people have about food in terms of the digestive process - the combination of foods on those programmes are honestly ridiculous! (and really quite sickening)



I'd never really thought of it properly before, but it completely makes sense. And Megan's chart (which I've stolen for reference above) showing foods separated into columns helps us to visualise what our meals could (and should) look like from here on - if we want a better rate of digestion, that is. I certainly do.

And now I'm off to attempt recreating her recipe for oven-baked banana paleo pancakes, seeing as I missed Shrove Tuesday last week due to the misfortunate circumstance that was work - pfft. Pics to come soon. Anyway, I hope you enjoyed pancake day more than I did! Let me know your favoured recipes, I do ♥ pancakes...or any egg-based meal, for that matter.