Polish Diet

Olivia Hajnos
Polish Diet

~Blog Post #4~

April 19^th, 2015

            On all honesty, because of American food, Polish people needed to learn how to diet and stick to what they knew best, which are their own roots of cooking. From personal experience, I don’t exactly need a specific diet to maintain a healthy weight when I eat Polish food. Everything Pols make is from fresh and pure ingredients. The main aspect of a Polish diet is simply not eating late. In America and other countries, people eat very late at night, which can actually cause more negative results than positive. All my life, dinner was between 3 and 5 p.m. When someone would come to my house around those times, I would offer him or her dinner and in exchange, I would get a very confused and judgmental response. When I eat late, I feel so out of structure and place because I get extremely bloated and I don’t feel healthy. Normally after dinner, if I get a little hungry, I eat a light snack to fulfill me for the rest of the night. When my mom looks on the back of any food product she buys, she always chooses the one with the least amount of ingredients because less is more. Polish cuisine has always stayed the same because it never failed to keep us satisfied. Bigos, which is very high in calcium, is part of a daily diet for Pols because of the nutrients it provides. Part of the Polish diet is that we don’t normally snack a lot unless we are truly hungry. The size of every meal is decent and well proportioned. It’s not too much or too little, it’s just enough. On an everyday basis, a light meal would be having a piece of rye bread with butter, lunchmeat, tomato’s, and chives. Whenever my grandma visits, every morning for breakfast she would make me a delicious sandwich just like that. Even sprinkling a little pepper and salt on every Polish dish is common.

Sources: Personal Experience 

"Do You Think Certain Nationalities Are More Susceptible to Certain Diseases?" SodaHead. N.p., n.d. Web. 19 Apr. 2015.

Recipe for Goulash 

"Polish Goulash (Beef Stew) Recipe." Polish Meals. N.p., n.d. Web. 19 Apr. 2015.