Stay Healthy with the Spreadsheet Diet

If you spend most of your time sitting in front of a spreadsheet, you might suffer from a spreading waistline. You can monitor your weight with a spreadsheet, and keep track of what you’re eating, to help solve the problem.

The Spreadsheet Diet

As a preventive measure, you can follow a healthy meal plan by using The Spreadsheet Diet, which was created in 2006 by Ed Bruske. He described the diet in a Washington Post article, including a few recipes, and a list of the spreadsheet categories.

How It Works

To get started, you’ll enter all the food categories in spreadsheet columns, then create meals by selecting one  or more items from each column.

Bruske describes how to use the categories:

“Starting with whole grains in the vertical column of my version of a Kitchen Excel sheet, my eyes move across the horizontal axis and I pick up vegetables, nuts, vinegars and olive oil to complete my dish.”

For more information on how the Spreadsheet Diet works, you can read the instructions from the Washington Post article (near the bottom of the linked page).

Would You Try It?

The Spreadsheet Diet is meat-free, and feta cheese is the only dairy product that I see listed. I’m sure it’s healthier than my normal diet, but it doesn’t look too appealing. It’s an interesting concept though, and maybe I can adapt it for my own use.

How about you? Would you plan your meals or recipes, using ingredients from spreadsheet category column?

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