I Haven't Been Sick in Years—These Are the Foods I Eat Every Day

If you had sat at my grandmother's table, you would not have found anything fancy on it. No strange or costly things, no fine imported delicacies, nothing you could not have named at a glance. Just the same plain honest foods, day after day, season after season, the everyday staples that a plain family lived on. And yet those folks, eating that plain everyday fare, were by and large a sound and sturdy people, who worked hard into old age and did not ail the way so many do now. It was not any one miracle food that kept them so. It was the plain, humble, everyday eating, the same good foods on the table day in and day out, that fed them well their whole lives long. I want to say one plain, honest thing at the start. You will hear folks claim that this food or that food will keep you from ever being sick, that eat such a thing every day and you will live to a great old age untouched by illness. I will not tell you any such thing, because it is not true. No food, and no list of foods, makes a body proof against sickness. What plain good eating does, honestly, is give a body its best chance, feed it well, and support its keeping sound over a long life. That is a real and worthy thing, but it is not a magic shield. Real illness, when it comes, is a doctor's matter, always. I am Elias Yoder. My family came over from the German country and settled in Lancaster County in 1838, and they ate this plain everyday way off this very land, and I eat much of it still. I am not a doctor. I am a farmer telling you what the old folks put on their tables every day and why it served them so well. In this video I walk you through the plain old everyday foods, humble and cheap, that kept the folks well. What you will learn: ✔ The whole grains and plain oats, the foundation of the old daily breakfast, and why they give slow steady lasting energy ✔ The fermented and soured foods, the sauerkraut and cultured things, and why they are so good for the gut ✔ The humble garlic and onion in the daily pot, and the quiet good they do the blood ✔ The leafy greens and garden vegetables, eaten in real plenty, the very heart of the old sound eating ✔ The berries and fruit in their season, the old folks' sweet, and how they gently protect against the wear of years ✔ The beans and lentils, the cheap filling foundation, carrying good protein and steadying fiber ✔ The good fats and plain nuts, used plainly and without fear, that feed and satisfy ✔ Why it was not any one food but the whole plain daily pattern that kept the old folks well This is not a miracle and no single food does it. It is the whole plain daily table, the oats and beans and greens and soured things and garden vegetables and fruit and good fats, eaten day in and day out, with little of the sugar and stripped white food that fills the modern plate. Humble real food, plainly and daily, was enough to keep whole generations sound. Tell me in the comments below. What did the old folks in your family eat every single day, the plain daily staples of their table? Was it the oats, the beans, the greens, the soured things, the bread? Did your grandmother have a food she put on the table near every day without fail? And were they sound and sturdy, the old folks who ate that plain daily way? Where did your folks come from, and what were their everyday foods? The plain old daily eating is worth remembering and worth keeping, so write yours down here. I read every single one. Next video, since today we talked of the fermented and soured foods as one of the plain old daily goods, I want to do that plain old art by itself, the crock of sauerkraut and the soured and cultured foods, how the old folks made and kept them, why they are so good for the gut, and how a body can bring that plain old practice back into a modern kitchen. Subscribe so you do not miss it. The old people did not eat for their health by any special science. They just ate plain real food, day in and day out, and it kept them well. And that is a kind of wisdom that does not wear out, in any house that still remembers it. #AmishHealth #RealFood #WholeFoods #OldWaysRemembered #PennsylvaniaDutch #EatRealFood #PlainEating #NaturalLiving #AmishWisdom #HealthyEating #FermentedFoods #EatYourGreens #HomesteadHealth #SimpleLiving #HealthyAging