Baked Potatoes Every Day: A Balanced Diet is Crucial

Hannah's diet has been a subject of concern, with her eating baked potatoes every day. It's clear that she's not getting enough variety in her diet, and protein deficiency might be a major issue. A balanced diet with a mix of nutrients is essential for overall health and well-being. Protein, in particular, plays a vital role in maintaining muscle mass and energy levels.

Good Morning to Hannah

Hannah greeted me with a smile, saying she was very well. However, it's clear that her diet has been a restrictive one, with an emphasis on vegetables and vitamin C. A balanced diet is crucial, and protein is a key component of any healthy meal. When asked about her last meat consumption, Hannah replied that it had been three and a half years ago. This lack of variety in her diet might be affecting her overall health.

The Zoo Effect

Hannah mentioned that she started eating at the zoo, which gave her a different perspective on animal treatment and the type of meat she consumes. She always opted for organic meat when available. Bobby, the Silverback griller, is an example of how a healthy balanced diet can work wonders. His story is an inspiration to us all.

Lunchtime Prep

As lunchtime approached, Hannah and I headed into the kitchen to prepare food for Bobby and the other animals. This was our cutting up room, where we would prep ingredients for the day's meals. We had a variety of fruits and vegetables, including lettuce, cabbage, card, lemon peel, allspice, avocados, and more.

Avocado Delights

We discussed serving avocado as part of the meal, highlighting its essential fatty acids. Hannah expressed interest in having guacamole made with the avocados. We also offered a range of other options, including prawns, crab, spinach, chickory, fennel, iceberg lettuce, and broccoli.

Baby Gem Lettuce

I jokingly told Hannah that we had an abundance of baby gem lettuce, which she playfully replied would be enough for the restaurants. I reassured her that we wouldn't let any food go to waste.

Cooking with Bobby's Ingredients

To show Hannah that all the ingredients down at the zoo were equally exciting for her, we created a dish using some of the same ones she feeds Bobby The Gourmet griller. We started by preparing carrots and cabbage, which are packed with vitamins and fiber. These vegetables provide a delicious crunch to the dish.

Quick Vinegrette

We made a quick vinegarette using olive oil, sesame seeds, mustard, and lemon juice. This dressing helps break down the collagen in the meat, making it tender and flavorful. The poppy seeds added a great contribution to the daily calcium needs.

A Wild Card for Hannah

Hannah had had enough of her balanced but boring gluten-free diet and was ready to try something new. She would be having a protein-rich steak as part of our cooking demonstration. We chose an organic beef, reared on grass in the summer and sweds in the winter. This type of beef is truly the epitome of organic farming.

Taragon Dressing

We prepared a spicy marinade using shalot, taragon, and lemon juice. This dressing would make Hannah's first fillet steak in years easier to enjoy. As we cooked the steak, it absorbed all the amazing flavors of the marinade.

A Delicious Finish

Finally, we finished the dish with coriander, which added a warm and aromatic flavor. The dish was now complete, and we couldn't wait for Hannah to try it. She had been hesitant about trying red meat, but I reassured her that she would enjoy the flavors and textures.

Fueling Bobby's Energy

As we cooked, I couldn't help but think of Bobby's incredible energy levels. He looked like a hard-as-nails individual, and I wondered what fuel actually kept him going. We discussed using salmon as an alternative protein source for Hannah, which might be more to her liking. However, I assured her that the dish would still provide all the necessary nutrients she needed.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enI've come to London Zoo to meet Hannah to tell her to stop monking around when it comes to her diet Hannah has worked here as zookeeper and animal nutritionist for the past four years my job here is mostly to look after the um the primates so all the monkeys and the Apes good morning yes each day Hannah prepares peanuts and meal worms for the squirrel monkeys The Chimps get fresh papaya the mettes banana and Bobby the Silverback griller enjoys a Sumptuous spread of seeds fennel and curly Kale like most of her charges Hanna doesn't eat meat but she's not looking after herself half as well as the monkeys and it's beginning to show I've recently um got a gluten and dairy intolerance so every day at work I basically have the same thing um it's either gluten-free pasta with pesto or a baked potato pastor and baked potatoes every day Hannah's clearly not getting enough Variety in her restrict diet and I think her main problem is lack of protein Hannah good morning how are you I'm very well thank you it's like a blown up version of anti Ral Thompson there the diet is crucial yes absolutely vegetable intake vitamin C you know protein yeah and that balance is the most important part yeah absolutely when was the last time you sat down to a really good piece of meat uh a good good three three and a half years ago any reason I think having started at this Zoo you kind of start to get a different outlook on on the on how animals are treated and the sort of meat that you eat um I've always been I was always careful about what meat I ate before so you would eat meat if it was you know probably reared organic absolutely so Bobby the Silverback griller is a great example of what a healthy balanced diet can do for you is absolutely incredible Bobby there we go he's having his he's having his fruit tea now fruit tea I'm surprised he's not El GR it's lunch time for Bobby and the other animals so Hannah and I are off to make it right this is our cutting up room this is like a prep room for a restaurant in here you got the frizzy lettuce cabbage card lemon peel all spice this is a joke isn't it avocados we're serving avocados as well no it's good for them it's very you know obviously it's essential fatty acid and would you like it turned into a guacamole or would you like we do make guacamole oh you make guacamoli as well and avocado prawns avocado crab or spinach chickory fret iceberg fennel spinach broccoli we've got michy starred monkeys I'm I'm stuck here you are yes not looking after yourself the grillers are getting baby gem lettuce absolutely you're spawning them I'm not you are baby Jem lettuce no one is a shortage for the restaurants I know Bob eat them all I'm going to cook Hannah a deliciously healthy dish using the same ingredients she feeds Bobby The Gourmet griller with no dairy or GL just to show you that all the stuff you're working with down there yeah can be equally as exciting for you first up CAW don't lose any nutrients through cooking raw is more ciac carrots and cabbage are all packed with vitamins and fiber and give the dish a delicious crunch I love the Smoky bitterness of chory and it's very low in cholesterol going to make the quick vinegarette so 2/3 olive oil one3 sesame seed o yeah little bit of mustard okay poppy seeds just a tablespoon makes a great contribution to your daily calcium needs lemon juice and parly help the digestion of proteins and fats they also taste great and then uh vinegar within 3 or 4 minutes the seasoning is going to start breaking down the co slore and now for my Wild Card Hannah's fed up with her own balanced boring gluten-free diet she may not have eaten meat for 3 years but now she thinks she's ready to give it another go so I'm throwing her in at the deep end with a delicious protein Rich steak um this is the kind of beef it's reared um in ASA yeah it's fed on grass in the summer uh sweds and turnip in the winter so it's a proper organic beef when I did eat meat I would try and eat organic I don't like the way animals are mass produced no I stand strong on that one nor do I how do you like your beef how do you like it cooked medium yeah yeah fine so we'll cook it Med remember okay for the dressing shalot I believe that good quality lean meat is a key part of a healthy diet so I'm hoping this dish will help Hannah back on the road to recovery turn over the steaks a delicious taragan dressing should make her first fillet steak in years a little easier to deal with so it's quite a spicy marinade tar we just cut once slightly faster give it a stir and add to the steaks delicious what we're going to do is spoon that over so as the beef starts to cool down it absorbs all that amazing flavor finally finish the coal with coriander and it's ready to go there's yours medium I can't believe you can put so much different flavors and tastes just into COA COA I haven't quite managed to uh take on the beef you put the most amazing energy into looking after these animals so you need protein yeah absolutely a good bit of salmon do you think or something salmon works perfectly just not quite ready for the uh for the red meat don't you worry about that I'll use it absolute physical and mental limits I'm dying to find out what fuel actually keeps them going look at them they look absolutely hard as nailsI've come to London Zoo to meet Hannah to tell her to stop monking around when it comes to her diet Hannah has worked here as zookeeper and animal nutritionist for the past four years my job here is mostly to look after the um the primates so all the monkeys and the Apes good morning yes each day Hannah prepares peanuts and meal worms for the squirrel monkeys The Chimps get fresh papaya the mettes banana and Bobby the Silverback griller enjoys a Sumptuous spread of seeds fennel and curly Kale like most of her charges Hanna doesn't eat meat but she's not looking after herself half as well as the monkeys and it's beginning to show I've recently um got a gluten and dairy intolerance so every day at work I basically have the same thing um it's either gluten-free pasta with pesto or a baked potato pastor and baked potatoes every day Hannah's clearly not getting enough Variety in her restrict diet and I think her main problem is lack of protein Hannah good morning how are you I'm very well thank you it's like a blown up version of anti Ral Thompson there the diet is crucial yes absolutely vegetable intake vitamin C you know protein yeah and that balance is the most important part yeah absolutely when was the last time you sat down to a really good piece of meat uh a good good three three and a half years ago any reason I think having started at this Zoo you kind of start to get a different outlook on on the on how animals are treated and the sort of meat that you eat um I've always been I was always careful about what meat I ate before so you would eat meat if it was you know probably reared organic absolutely so Bobby the Silverback griller is a great example of what a healthy balanced diet can do for you is absolutely incredible Bobby there we go he's having his he's having his fruit tea now fruit tea I'm surprised he's not El GR it's lunch time for Bobby and the other animals so Hannah and I are off to make it right this is our cutting up room this is like a prep room for a restaurant in here you got the frizzy lettuce cabbage card lemon peel all spice this is a joke isn't it avocados we're serving avocados as well no it's good for them it's very you know obviously it's essential fatty acid and would you like it turned into a guacamole or would you like we do make guacamole oh you make guacamoli as well and avocado prawns avocado crab or spinach chickory fret iceberg fennel spinach broccoli we've got michy starred monkeys I'm I'm stuck here you are yes not looking after yourself the grillers are getting baby gem lettuce absolutely you're spawning them I'm not you are baby Jem lettuce no one is a shortage for the restaurants I know Bob eat them all I'm going to cook Hannah a deliciously healthy dish using the same ingredients she feeds Bobby The Gourmet griller with no dairy or GL just to show you that all the stuff you're working with down there yeah can be equally as exciting for you first up CAW don't lose any nutrients through cooking raw is more ciac carrots and cabbage are all packed with vitamins and fiber and give the dish a delicious crunch I love the Smoky bitterness of chory and it's very low in cholesterol going to make the quick vinegarette so 2/3 olive oil one3 sesame seed o yeah little bit of mustard okay poppy seeds just a tablespoon makes a great contribution to your daily calcium needs lemon juice and parly help the digestion of proteins and fats they also taste great and then uh vinegar within 3 or 4 minutes the seasoning is going to start breaking down the co slore and now for my Wild Card Hannah's fed up with her own balanced boring gluten-free diet she may not have eaten meat for 3 years but now she thinks she's ready to give it another go so I'm throwing her in at the deep end with a delicious protein Rich steak um this is the kind of beef it's reared um in ASA yeah it's fed on grass in the summer uh sweds and turnip in the winter so it's a proper organic beef when I did eat meat I would try and eat organic I don't like the way animals are mass produced no I stand strong on that one nor do I how do you like your beef how do you like it cooked medium yeah yeah fine so we'll cook it Med remember okay for the dressing shalot I believe that good quality lean meat is a key part of a healthy diet so I'm hoping this dish will help Hannah back on the road to recovery turn over the steaks a delicious taragan dressing should make her first fillet steak in years a little easier to deal with so it's quite a spicy marinade tar we just cut once slightly faster give it a stir and add to the steaks delicious what we're going to do is spoon that over so as the beef starts to cool down it absorbs all that amazing flavor finally finish the coal with coriander and it's ready to go there's yours medium I can't believe you can put so much different flavors and tastes just into COA COA I haven't quite managed to uh take on the beef you put the most amazing energy into looking after these animals so you need protein yeah absolutely a good bit of salmon do you think or something salmon works perfectly just not quite ready for the uh for the red meat don't you worry about that I'll use it absolute physical and mental limits I'm dying to find out what fuel actually keeps them going look at them they look absolutely hard as nails\n"