“They’re a little tough,” said Miller, who admits a little switch in preparation might have changed that result. So yeah, this might not be for everybody, but Miller isn’t interested in arguing over it. If you want to have a conversation, that’s a different matter, and when you do talk to him about it, it’s a fascinating chat. Why else would we be talking about food when Miller is looking to take the momentum from his back-to-back knockouts of Erick Gonzalez and Nikolas Motta into a fight where he can not only even the score with Cerrone – who beat him in 2014 – but break his tie with “Cowboy” and Andrei Arlovski for most wins in UFC history?
Because it’s an interesting topic, especially in this day and age of overly processed foods and meat prices shooting through the roof. And while Miller is no preacher, he is generous with his knowledge on the matter.
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“We sacrifice our health for convenience,” he said. “If we’re traveling, I fall victim to it. I eat stuff that I know that I shouldn’t eat and I know that’s gonna make me feel gross. And then when I get home, we cook primarily from whole foods. It’s a very simple way of cooking in my house – a basic protein, if I have some wild game, we’ll have that, and then a majority of the time, it’s some broccoli, roasted bell peppers or asparagus, and we’ll throw in a starch of some sort. It’s very clean stuff, I know that it helped me get over Lyme disease, and I feel like it’s helped me continue my career as well.”
But what about the big question…how do the four Miller kids feel about this whole thing?
“My kids are great,” he said. “They have their picky moments. My 10-year-old son, Wyatt, he will eat anything, and he will out eat most adults. (Laughs) As a four-year-old, he would eat anything; there was never an issue. The other three, you get some pushback and stuff like that here and there. There are things that they don’t like, but they know that I’m a hunter and that I spend time doing it and I enjoy doing it. They know it’s part of our lifestyle.”
I may even try venison now, though that comes with a disclaimer from Miller.
“When I was a kid, I didn’t like it, either.”
