If money were no object...

[Junegoddess]

what would you eat?

Maybe this is cruel to even think about right now... with so many struggling to get even the basics of a good diet. But I was just sitting here, yet again thinking about food, and preconception diets, and... kinda wishing I lived in another place and time. Somewhere/when it wasn't unusual to eat fresh raw oysters every week, or have the liver (of whatever) saved just for me, because everyone knew I was getting ready to get pregnant. I'd love to be surrounded, literally (not just online) with people who agreed and understood the importance of nutrition.
I know what I ought to eat, but it frequently feels like such a fight to get it. My dh generally just goes along for the ride, but never makes the same choices for himself and just doesn't CARE. Nutrition is completely boring to him.

So... anyway... that got me thinking about what it would take (in money and time and such) to somehow have oysters every week. And plenty of really high-quality fish. And pastured beef, chicken, eggs... everything. What would I eat if I could get my hands on anything I wanted?

I think my number 1 would be raw oysters. I love them. Love, love, love, love. Crave! Must be something to that. I also want fish roe... but maybe just for the luxury of it. I've never had GOOD fish roe, just crappy dyed grocery store stuff. And I want Nigella Lawson's eggs. I've seen them on TV. Apparently she has them flown in from Italy! The yolks are seriously almost red. I have never seen eggs like that in real life.
Then, if I had a magic wand, I think I'd want collards, kale, berries, and watermelon to all be at their peak all year-round. Ok, that's just silly... my question isn't about fairyland.

So, anyway, what would you eat, if money were no object? Especially if you were trying to get ready to TTC?

[spughy]

Before you get too jealous of Nigella, eggs CAN be made to be that colour with a simple corn-based feed additive. Not saying hers are for sure - I don't know - but it's a possibility.

If money were no object, I would just position myself near good food. I would personally want a small herd of caribou near my house. My DH wouldn't need a whole lot of encouragement to go out and humanely dispatch a couple. Seriously, caribou is the best meat ever. I would also like a nice healthy salmon run nearby as well. And a flock of chickens, and a huge garden. That'd about do me, I think So yeah, if money were no object, I'd eat caribou, salmon, really free-range eggs and chicken, and super-fresh veggies. Oh and I'd completely buy out our cow-share cow and move her to wherever we are because she makes the best milk I've ever tasted.

Mmm...yeah ok one more thing - ducks. Loooove me some ducks, very good for you too, all that lovely fat.

[sharr610]

A big beautiful kitchen connected to a big beautiful garden and all the equiptment, space and time to prepare foods as they should be.

[stacyann21]

I would buy a couple of dairy cows and some hens! I'd also buy nothing but organic, pasture-grazed meat and organic veggies/fruits. We'd eat a lot more fresh, wild-caught sea food too. Oh the possiblities...LOL.

[miss_sonja]

About the same as we do except instead of having grass-fed/organic meat only occasionally, we'd have it all the time. Ditto produce.

[wednesday2004]

Definitely grass fed beef and bison and free range chicken. After that our diet would probably be similar. A bigger kitchen would be great since the one I have is tiny. That alone would get me cooking better.

[Minerva]

Mmm, bison. :

I'd also like a nice area of berry brambles and such, some fruit trees, and a garden full of fresh herbs. And to have someone at my beck and call to go collect crawfish for me. And conch, I haven't had good fresh conch in ages. Ooh, and some nut trees. We need almond, hazelnut, and macadamia trees -- all in one garden. And while I'm dreaming here, how about a rice paddy with well-paid workers to tend it.


Is anyone else getting hungry from this thread?

[homewithtwinsmama]

I would have property with peaches, apples, cherries, figs and strawberries (got blueberry bushes for my birthday). Organic buffalo mozzarella. Lobster. I would like the seas to be pure again so I could eat snapper and grouper and halibut even while nursing a baby! Limoncello - love that stuff, need to make some soon!

And enough money to buy whatever I wanted here:

http://www.livingtreecommunity.com/

[GouGou]

I would want pretty much everything everyone else has said so far, with just one addition:

I'm happy to spend all of my time roaming farmers' markets, and I'm discovering that we live in a place that is practically a hub for local, pastured, organic everything.

I'm also happy to spend my time cooking, canning, pickling, baking, fermenting...

But there's just one thing I'd like if money were no object: A sous-chef/cleanup person whom I'd pay really generously to help me with all of my daily projects. THAT would be bliss!

[Attached Mama]

Ditto the pp who said clean seas so I could eat whatever seafood. I think my wish would be for more seafood. I spend so much money getting eco brand salmon that is tested for PCB's and mercury and only buy that and one other fish and only occasionally due to cost of getting really clean fish. Ugh!

So yeah - clean fish, all I could want. Plus my own cow (which is in the future plans), and lots of fruit and berries on my property.

I'd also like to get meat that was butured on the farm not in a processing plant which is so hard to find. It just seems so much more humane to me. However, I'm way to squimish to do it myself. I'd become veg overnight again!

[Metasequoia]

I like Sarah's vision, living near a salmon run. We lurve wild salmon.

Berries, lotsa berries - all kinds. I'd build a really tall greenhouse too, so I could grow some coconut palms - I wonder if I could build one large enough?

[vegmom]

If only I could have...

Clean fish that have not come from a farm or China! Thats my biggest gripe.

I also had duck before and it tasted very yummy.

I used to have this romantic dream of our family on an organic farm on rolling meadows, with cows - donkeys - goats - pigs - horses, in the pasture munching on wild flowers, with chickens running under our feet, birds making wonderful music and flying over head. The laundry would be on the line and the organic garden would be lush and green. The garden would have fruit trees, berry bushes and the most beautiful flower gardens. My kids would be laughing and running around me and I would be swinging on my hammock under a great big maple!

My dh grew up on a farm just like this (without the variety of animals)... But his mother worked hard to keep the farm running! So if money was not an issue I would still want this dream and hire someone to do all the work.