I have unintentionally become pescatarian recently because I’ve come to realize that fish have a lot of nutritional value. So far, my meal plan looks like this:

Breakfast

  • 3 eggs
  • 1 slice of Ezekial bread toasted
  • Mixed berry smoothie with banana, peanut powder, collagen peptides, chia, creatine, non-fat greek yogurt, and water

Lunch

  • 2 tin cans of sardines, mashed
  • Non-fat greek yogurt
  • Tzaziki sauce
  • Lemon
  • Black pepper
  • 2 slices of Ezekial bread toast or one ezekial tortilla, depending on my mood

Dinner

  • Shrimp kebabs made with olive oil and veggies
  • 1 corn roll or asparagus

Some days I’ll switch out my dinner for a salmon salad / salmon wrap, or I’ll change the shrimp kebabs for a shrimp ceasar wrap with a nice avocado oil based dressing. Being pescatarian is really great because it’s easier to make, shelf life lasts very long, and it’s generally cheaper than buying meats.

  • JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.socialEnglish
    3·
    19 days ago

    Ezekial bread

    I’m not a big bread fan, due to it not being much better than junk food IMO, but that stuff looks great!

    Shrimp kebab

    A good reminder to me that a pescatarian diet includes non-fish seafood. That said, I haven’t checked on the nutritional profiles of crustaceans for a long time. Not sure how ‘healthy’ or not they’re currently considered…

    Btw, for my wraps, I like to have these, which are mainly made out of resistant starches and only have about half the typical # of kcals. Altho when I get around to it, I’m going to try another round of making my own oat-flour wraps as a similar health upgrade.

    Anyway, in terms of fish, I have salmon fairly often, and a bit of canned tunafish, and some omega-3 capsules every day. Diet is mostly soup and stew-based in general, with fresh veggies and some low-cal noodles. Air-fryer is also an essential food prep tool, as well as the spiral elements on my oven, great for precision grilling.

    • Korhaka@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      2·
      19 days ago

      Shellfish should be pretty reasonable in a balanced diet but they are so expensive. Want to catch my own though not had a huge amount of success when I have tried. Need to try more places.

      • JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.socialEnglish
        2·
        19 days ago

        Molluscs? I’d be checking online (and wherever else) to see if the local ones are in clean water and/or have any issues like that. Or maybe canned would make sense.

        • Korhaka@sopuli.xyzEnglish
          3·
          19 days ago

          Crabs, no chance I would go for filter feeders here and there aren’t that many places suitable for them to grow anyway. Although there are a few rocky areas for sea defences they mostly have limpets on them. I think limpets would be safe to eat but are very chewy and not something you normally eat when you have other choices.

          I wonder if you could make a seafood stock from them, but it feels a little wasteful to only use them for that.

          • JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.socialEnglish
            2·
            19 days ago

            Oh, crustaceans, then. I thought “shellfish” referred to molluscs specifically (because of the valves, or “shells”), but I see now that I was mistaken.

            Seafood bisque is a fairly high-end item IIRC, so there’s no shame there I should think. If the cooked limpets weren’t good for anything else, they might also be good for fertiliser in a garden. *shrug*

            • Korhaka@sopuli.xyzEnglish
              3·
              19 days ago

              Not sure if limpets are crustaceans, but yeah anything with a shell I would think is shellfish.

              IIRC limpets are not filter feeders, mussels are. So in water that is sometimes polluted they are not as much of a risk while filter feeders are very high risk. Does also depend on the type of pollution though.

              I know people eat crabs from the Thames, pretty sure the Solent isn’t quite as bad as that for pollution. As for using them as fertiliser, maybe, but isn’t protein recommended against usually? Might be ok if it’s only a little but to make a stock I would think you need quite a few of them.

              Quick edit - Could use limpets as bait though. Otherwise likely most suited as a famine food.

              • JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.socialEnglish
                2·
                19 days ago

                Limpets are indeed molluscs. Crustaceans are like underwater insects, with every single part of their bodies typically covered in thin-ish keratin-based plating. That said, they include some oddballs like barnacles, which build shells more like bivalve molluscs do (clams and such).

                You’re right about the different feeding methods of limpets and filter-feeders. Limpets are like gastropod molluscs (snails, etc) in that they eat directly from a surface or prey.

                As for using them as fertiliser, maybe, but isn’t protein recommended against usually?

                Oh, I’d generally thought that most animal material (and of course waste) makes for good fertiliser, but maybe it depends. In truth, I was thinking back about a garden project in which we used a kind of ‘fish guts’ solution to help grow produce. The plants loved it!

                • Korhaka@sopuli.xyzEnglish
                  2·
                  19 days ago

                  I think the main problem is that it’s far more likely to attract things like rats if you are throwing out stuff like that. But it probably also depends on how you compost it.

                  • JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.socialEnglish
                    2·
                    19 days ago

                    Right, it would need to be blended up with some water such that it quickly sunk in to the soil, like the fish guts liquid fertiliser.