Food! Again.
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I've been getting questions about what I and dancers do eat since we have this alleged ability to 'eat whatever'. Here's an example of what you could have found in my shopping cart back when I was dancing at the professional level. I sometimes say that or dancing professionally, just because it's easier. And yes, though I have danced with different ballet companies often, it was never on stage, and I was never paid for it. So in that being a paid professinal sense, I am and never was a professional dancer. However in terms of being able to dance at the same technical level of those on stage yes.
When I was dancing a lot, I was also working out for an hour or more each day, which often didn't leave much time for eating. More on actual meals later. The meals a dancer eats when she's at the studio all day differ greatly than what she can eat at home.
So, my shopping cart for a week would include the following:
Eggs
Butter
Parsley
Lemons
Almond butter
Soy milk or if regular milk only organic and only whole milk
full fat yogurt
full fat cottage cheese
2 bags of apricots (favorite fruit)
bananas
fresh or frozen spinach
leeks
carrots
clover sprouts
tofu
black beans
bread
tortillas
You get the idea, basically anything and everything that you find in the produce aisle, fresh or frozen if need be. Foods with high calcium content such as parsley and leeks and if you are eating spinach because it has both a high iron content and calcium content you must sprinkle it with lemon juice to help break down the iron in the food, or the calcium with not be absorbed into the body. I do that with every 'high calcium' veggie, just to be on the safe side. Absolutely nothing with high fructose corn syrup, and nothing that is ever marked as low fat. Especially milk. A dancer whose father was a dairy farmer educated us all on why you should buy only organic or only full fat milk- especially if you have to buy non-organic buy full fat, whole milk. You notice there is no soda and no coffee.
Up next will be what you'd find in my cart if I'm having a bad day, and what I'd consider to be a more 'normal' grocery run now. Keeping in mind that the above is how a dancer normally eats, which is why they can eat 'so much junk' on occasion and get away with it, for the most part.
