Actress Kim Jung-nan is nearly a month into giving up flour — and she’s not hiding how hard it is. On October 12, she revealed her detox journey in a new video on her YouTube channel, titled “밥 한 공기 순삭 가능!! 깻잎김치부터 황탯국까지 초간단 김정난 표 반찬 5종 레시피 최초공개.”
According to Sports Donga, Kim said in the video: “I’m doing a detox these days. It’s been almost a month since I stopped eating flour. I really haven’t had bread or noodles.”
Temptation, she confessed, is everywhere. “There were so many temptations. Every time I passed a delicious bakery, I drooled,” she laughed, adding that she is holding back even though there are tasty bibim noodles and ramen at home.
Her eating habits have changed dramatically. She now stir-fries cabbage, which she barely touched before, together with meat, and cooks her rice mixed with barley and lupini beans instead of white rice. Pollock soup, made with pollock, shiitake mushrooms, onion, and kelp, is a recent favorite — she once ate it three times in a day.
A small kitchen mishap kept things entertaining. Kim forgot to turn off the heat while prepping other ingredients and panicked at the burnt smell: “Oh no, it’s burnt. What do we do, guys?” Onions and green onions layered underneath saved the tofu.
“It doesn’t smell burnt. If it tastes good, that’s what matters,” she said after tasting.
The actress seems to be enjoying her healthier routine.
