I chose a Pescetarian diet for the diet and dietary restrictions. What is a Pescetarian diet? Pescetarian diet is the practice of following a diet that includes fish and Seafoods, it does not include the flesh of other animals such as meat & game.

The diet will follow a lacto-ovo vegetarian diet a lacto-ovo vegetarian diet can consume eggs and dairy. Pescetarian is named after the Latin word of: Piscic or Piscatus.

I wanted to try the diet because of my love for fish, fish buying in Toronto can be challenging because most of the fish comes from the Pacific Ocean which will have to be flown in from the East coast and sometimes the West coast, by the time the fish arrives in Toronto it is already a couple of days old and will be not as fresh as it should be. In the spring, summer and fall we will find fresh water fish in our stores, like trout, pickerel or pike.

Pescetarians prefer to eat wild caught fish which will be all natural and free from any growth hormones. Most animals in North America are not organic and therefore the environmental and amount of energy needed to feed cows, chicken, or a pig exceeds its nutritional value. Pescetarians also prefer wild caught fish as opposed to farmed carnivorous fish that require food input from other fish that are caught in the ocean and will not be sustainable.

Fish may also not associate pain and fear as more complex animals like mammals do.

I created a 3 day Pescetarian diet:

Menu for 3 days:

Day 1:

Breakfast:

Trout gravlax with poached egg and brioche toast

Lunch day 1:

Shrimp Skewer with fries sticky rice with kale and vegetables

Dinner day 1

The dinner consisted of: sauteed kale, fried potatoes and breaded cod fish with mango avocado salsa.

This cod was Pacific Ocean caught and was therefor sustainable, it was previously frozen unfortunately.

​​​​​​Menu for the rest of the 2 days.

Breakfast:

Day 1: Trout and scrambled eggs
Day 2: No fish oatmeal and fresh berries

Lunch:

Day 1: Seared tuna with sticky rice and Salsa

Day 2: Fish and chips

Dinner: 

Day 1: Sushi at a sushi restaurant:

I ate Sushi that night in a nice Sushi restaurant and had the Sushi and Sashimi boat, it was lovely!!

Day 2: Seared scallops with spaghetti, roasted peppers, grilled zucchini and in basil cream sauce.

Recipe

Mango avocado salsa:

250 grams of diced mango

250 grams of diced avocado

250 grams of diced Roma tomatoes

1 whole brunoise cut shallot

100 ml olive oil

1/2 bunch of coriander, finely chopped

1 whole lemon juice

Salt and pepper to taste

Method:

Mix all the ingredients together and season with the salt and the pepper.

Gravlax recipe:

1 side of trout fillet

100 grams of Kosher salt

10 grams of course black pepper

1/4 bunch of fresh dill

1/4 chopped dill

20 ml olive oil

10 ml of Maple Syrup

Method:

Springle the Kosher salt, peppercorns and the fresh dill on top of the trout fillet, place in the fridge for 12 hours. After 12 hours take the dill, salt and peppercorn of the trout, rub with a little bit of olive oil and the maple syrup  then cover with chopped dill, slice and serve.

Trout fillet springles with salt and black peppercorns:

Covered with whole dill leafs and then refrigerated:

After 12 hours in the fridge, take it out and then cover with Maple Syrup and chopped dill:

My Experience:

My love for fish is immense and I would love to eat it everyday, it will be very difficult to do this because the rest of the Family is not a fish lover like me. It will also be very difficult to eat fish everyday because the fish in Toronto is not as fresh as it should be and I like to eat fresh fish. Of course you can buy frozen fish and they have a large selection to chose from when you go to the grocery store, seafood like shrimp and sardines. 

Provide advice:

If you would want to start this diet, I would definitely recommended it because it is a very healthy diet to eat fish every day is much better for you then eating meats everyday because land animals are fed much richer diets and may be exposed to antibiotics and hormones. However, it will be difficult to follow this diet because fresh fish is not always available unless you live close to the St Lawrence market! Most people would not eat fish everyday and I think if you do a combination of fish and meats and perhaps eat 1 or 2 days fish in a week, you should be fine with your dailyd diet.

When you decide to consueme this kind of diet, you also want to eat lots of vegetables, fruit, beans and legumes .

A Pescetarian diet would be clomse to a Mediterranean diet but you will eat more fish and seafood of course!

Would I continue with my choice?

If I would be living by the coast such as the province of Nova Scotia or B.C I would probably eat more fish and seafood, but that is not the case of course. My Family, besides me, are not seafood and fish eaters so it would be hard to follow this diet on a daily basis.

I myself could eat fish and seafood everyday just like I would eat meat everyday! So I will continue with more of a Mediterranean diet with a combination of fish and meat.

Thank you for reading!

Chef