What are the healthiest foods? Doctor DrLeigh Erin Connealy shares what she eats for dinner

Publish date: 2024-04-29

A top doctor has revealed what she eats for dinner throughout the week to stay healthy - including red meat, plenty of butter and even reindeer sausages. 

Dr Leigh Erin Connealy MD is the founder of the Centre For New Medicine.

The board-certified practitioner steers clear of processed ingredients and sticks to 'super high-quality' foods including lots of steak, lamb, seasonal salads, potatoes and 'slowly-churned' butter to provide 'healthy fats'.

She has been sharing what her average dinners look like in a series of videos posted to her popular social channels. 

Most nights Dr Leigh enjoys steak with sweet or white potatoes and butter, and a salad. Grass-fed butter is known to be more nutritious than regular butter as it is significantly higher in beneficial omega-3 fatty acids. 

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Dr Leigh Erin Connealy (pictured) shared what she eats for dinner each night eating a unprocessed diet of 'super high quality foods' The practitioner regularly eats steaks with sides including seasonal salads and potatoes and butter to provide 'healthy fats'

Dr Leigh Erin Connealy (pictured) shared what she eats for dinner each night eating an unprocessed diet of 'super high-quality foods'

Dr Connealy: This what I eat each night for dinner

  • Rib-eye steak with a side of red leaf lettuce with avocado, corn on the cob and sweet potato with butter
  • Grass-fed beef meat balls, organic marinara sauce and green salad 
  • New York strip steak, reindeer sausages, zucchini bolognese with Parmesan and rocket salad 
  • Grass-fed beef burger 'with all the fixings' 
  • Steak with potato and butter and a Caesar salad. 
  • Lamb chops include a baked potato with butter and sour cream, sliced tomatoes with Parmesan, olive oil and vinegar 
  • Steak with avocado, tomatoes and two small potatoes 
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    One night the Californian doctor ate her rib-eye steak with a side of 'red leaf lettuce with avocado, corn on the cob and sweet potato with butter'.

    Red leaf lettuce is high in potassium and magnesium and is popular due to its high Vitamin K content which is crucial for bone and heart health. 

    Another evening she paired her steak with avocado, tomatoes and two small potatoes while one meal she had the red meat with potato and butter and a Caesar salad. 

    Other sides she teams with steak or lamb chops include a baked potato with butter and sour cream, and sliced tomatoes with Parmesan, olive oil and vinegar.

    Dr Leigh hosted a dinner party where everyone enjoyed a spread with New York strip steak, reindeer sausages, zucchini bolognese with Parmesan and rocket salad. 

    Dr Leigh will team steak, lamb or grass-fed beef with things like a caesar salad, baked potato with butter and sour cream, sliced tomatoes with Parmesan, olive oil and vinegar Dr Leigh hosted a dinner party where everyone enjoyed a spread with strip steak, reindeer sausages, zucchini bolognese with Parmesan and rocket salad

    Dr Leigh will team steak, lamb or grass-fed beef with things like a caesar salad, baked potato with butter and sour cream, sliced tomatoes with Parmesan, olive oil and vinegar

    What is the healthiest diet? 

    Guideline one: To achieve and maintain a healthy weight, be physically active and choose amounts of nutritious food and drinks to meet your energy needs. Older people should eat nutritious foods and keep physically active to help maintain muscle strength and a healthy weight.

    Guideline two: Enjoy a wide variety of nutritious foods from these five groups every day:

    *Plenty of vegetables, including different types and colours, and legumes/beans

    *  Fruit 

    * Grain (cereal) foods, mostly wholegrain and/or high cereal fibre varieties, such as breads, cereals, rice, pasta, noodles, polenta, couscous, oats, quinoa and barley

    * Lean meats and poultry, fish, eggs, tofu, nuts and seeds, and legumes/beans

    * Milk, yoghurt, cheese and/or their alternatives, mostly reduced fat (reduced fat milks are not suitable for children under the age of 2 years)

    Guideline three: Limit intake of foods containing saturated fat, added salt, added sugars and alcohol 

    Key things to do for health

    * Swap discretionary choices for foods from the five food groups 

    * Make breads or grains part of at least two meals most days 

    * Include vegetables at least twice a day, particularly important if you would like to lose weight 

    * Make vegetables take up at least one third of meals and half the meal if you are trying to lose weight. So it’s important to serve vegetables or salad as a side dish even when eating meals like pasta, lasagne or risotto. By eating more vegetables in your meals, serves of other foods will be smaller and the overall meal will have fewer kilojoules

    * Include lean meat or meat alternative as part of at least one meal a day 

    * Add fruit to at least two meals or use as snacks or desserts

    * Include a serve of low fat milk, yoghurt or cheese as a significant part of at least two meals or snacks.

    It’s also good for your health to include fish meals every week, meals with legumes every week and a wide variety of different coloured vegetables every day

    Source: Eatforhealth.gov.au 

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    She makes squash, sweet potato or normal potato 'super loaded' with butter as they are a good source of 'healthy fats'.

    Other dinners Dr Leigh enjoys is grass-fed meat balls, organic marinara sauce and green salad as well as grass-fed burger 'with all the fixings'. 

    'We focus very much on the quality of food making sure all the ingredients are super high quality, it's sourced well and it's delicious and nutritious,' she said.

    Dr Leigh also shared what her average day on a plate is starting with two cooked eggs and two slices of fresh rye bread. 

    For lunch, she had a taco-style salad then made a standard dinner of lamb chops and a baked sweet potato. 

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