A recent health tip from Chet Day got me thinking about sequential eating. He explained it as eating the food on your plate in groups, starting with the least dense, like salad, and ending with the most dense, the meat or protein source. If you eat this way, it is supposed to be better for digestion.

I did a little digging on this concept and found out that Dr. Stanley Bass writes about it in his book, Ideal Health through Sequential Eating. He describes it a bit differently, in that you should eat the food containing the most water content first, ending with the food with the least amount of water. His reasoning is that by eating this way, each food will get the exact amount of the correct enzymes that it needs to digest properly.

Interesting. My guess? There is probably something to this. For me, though, it would be very hard to follow.

I am a foodie, and I love how different foods taste together. Some of the combinations they say to avoid, like mixing dried sweet fruit or bananas with nut and seeds, are my favorite combinations.

Has anyone tried sequential eating? What were your results?

We love hummus. Even the littlest McDuffee, not even two, has been slurping down hummus well before his first birthday. Just plain hummus is fine with us, but we also love to blend in things like spinach and broccoli for added nutrition.

We do eat meat, so I wasn't necessarily concerned about a lack of protein, but I always did wonder if hummus alone was enough. On the days I would just have hummus and veggies for lunch, for instance, was I getting enough protein?

WebMD says that hummus protein is a big yes. Hooray! Apparently, when you combine legumes and seeds, a complete protein source is established. You can go to the article to read about all the fancy terminology and the names of the different proteins.

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