{"id":1250,"date":"2026-04-20T03:04:03","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T03:04:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/?p=1250"},"modified":"2026-04-20T03:04:03","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T03:04:03","slug":"pick-a-protein-a-fat-and-one-plant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/20\/pick-a-protein-a-fat-and-one-plant\/","title":{"rendered":"Pick a Protein, a Fat, and One Plant"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>An interesting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8Xp0BkaJTYE\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8Xp0BkaJTYE\">video about foods and inflammation<\/a> came up on my YouTube feed.  I don&#8217;t have a problem with inflammation but wanted more ideas for eating without ultraprocessed food.  At the end he simplifes his meals by saying:  Pick a protein, a fat, and one vegetable.  That&#8217;s it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So here&#8217;s what I came up with in the moment.  Admittedly a side of broccolli is odd next to scrambled eggs.  But everything was a whole food (minus the Spam which I&#8217;m only eating to get rid of).  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was easy to make&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"771\" src=\"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/aproteinafatavegetable-1024x771.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1251\" srcset=\"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/aproteinafatavegetable-1024x771.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/aproteinafatavegetable-300x226.jpg 300w, https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/aproteinafatavegetable-768x578.jpg 768w, https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/aproteinafatavegetable-1536x1157.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/aproteinafatavegetable-2048x1542.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting video about foods and inflammation came up on my YouTube feed. I don&#8217;t have a problem with inflammation but wanted more ideas for eating without ultraprocessed food. At the end he simplifes his meals by saying: Pick a protein, a fat, and one vegetable. That&#8217;s it. So here&#8217;s what I came up with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1251,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-recipes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1250"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1252,"href":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1250\/revisions\/1252"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}