I hate bland food too. I don’t see the point of it. Food must be healthy, but also tasty, or you wouldn’t want to eat it anyway.

And tasty! You can travel across the Mediterranean and chances are that if you try local dishes you will find tasty and healthy recipes. If there is one thing that I hate it is bland food (yep, I am a bit of a foodie)

Tirurit, that’s so true. Still, I love the Mediterranean diet. It’s so varied, balanced, and really good for you.

I am Mediterranean and our traditional diet has many benefits: it has not that much meat, it has fish, it has legumes, vegetables, fruit and not many carbs. It is very tasty food, with spices and tasty recipes. What is the main reason behind it? We were a very poor land in the past, so meat and fish were not always an everyday happening like it is nowadays. We ate many more vegetables because that is what we had in the pantry. But it was no light food, as it needed to be energetic. Exercise was something that did not exist, we exercised more because work involved manual labour. Things have surely changed since then! I think we are still trying to find the balance between the abundance we have now in our pantries and what is good for us 😉