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Post by tampascrapper on Jul 28, 2014 23:50:19 GMT
What sort of foods do you enjoy eating? do you like spicy? Any particular type of food: Indian/Mexican/Thai/Italian etc? I love all kinds of food not too spicy though. I would love some Thai or Indian recipes. I have basically given up pasta and bread darn it. I love just about every veggie except eggplant (it was too mushy). So I am basically open to anything healthy
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Post by tamaraann on Jul 29, 2014 0:36:12 GMT
I love this thread and have been incorporating a lot of similar changes to my family's eating choices. I quit Diet Pepsi last August, and I still crave carbonation occasionally, but less and less as time goes on, and when I need a fix, I have a seltzer water. And not only do we try and eat Whole foods, but we try to eat organically as well.
One thing that hasn't come up in the conversation, is all the GMO's that exist in a LOT of our foods. We are really the only developed country left that doesn't require them to be labeled. If you think you are buying sugar, more than likely, it is derived from GMO beets, not sugar cane. Most of the canola oil, corn, wheat, soy, dairy in this country are full of GMO's.
Organic foods, if certified, do NOT contain GMO's.
GMO foods not only are able to withstand being sprayed with chemicals, they often have the chemicals right INSIDE them. Makes you wonder about all the gastro-intestinal diseases that seem so rampant these days. GMO usage really started in the 90's. Now every other person cannot eat wheat, has chrohns or IBS or some other intestinal issue. Maybe cause they've been eating Round-Up for years and didn't know it?
Just another thing to think about if you are going to eat whole foods, and don't want the chemicals in your food. Buy organic, or better yet, grow your own!
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Post by tamaraann on Jul 29, 2014 0:39:25 GMT
What sort of foods do you enjoy eating? do you like spicy? Any particular type of food: Indian/Mexican/Thai/Italian etc? I love all kinds of food not too spicy though. I would love some Thai or Indian recipes. I have basically given up pasta and bread darn it. I love just about every veggie except eggplant (it was too mushy). So I am basically open to anything healthy
Here is a pretty easy Thai flavored recipe that we love and I have been making it a lot lately! It's even good cold!
Thai Fried Quinoa
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Post by tampascrapper on Jul 29, 2014 1:02:47 GMT
I love all kinds of food not too spicy though. I would love some Thai or Indian recipes. I have basically given up pasta and bread darn it. I love just about every veggie except eggplant (it was too mushy). So I am basically open to anything healthy
Here is a pretty easy Thai flavored recipe that we love and I have been making it a lot lately! It's even good cold!
Thai Fried Quinoa
That recipe looks sooooo good! Thanks
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scrapnnana
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Jun 29, 2014 18:58:47 GMT
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Post by scrapnnana on Jul 29, 2014 2:10:38 GMT
Benem, I agree with your OP.
I watched several documentaries that make the same conclusion. We are eating addictive food-like products, not real foods.
I planted a veggie garden this year for the first time in over 25 years. I am trying to eat healthier. I haven't conquered all the cravings yet, but the healthier I eat, the better I feel and the more energy I have.
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scorpeao
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Jun 25, 2014 21:04:54 GMT
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Post by scorpeao on Jul 29, 2014 4:22:49 GMT
I just have to say... Missmiss you come across as very judgmental. I'm so glad you have life figured out.
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oblibby
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Jul 10, 2014 10:30:12 GMT
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Post by oblibby on Jul 29, 2014 5:54:46 GMT
Genetically modified food freaks me out. It's not common in food for human consumption here although believe it's used in some animal feed. I know one of the big supermarkets doesn't allow it in the animal feed chain for their meats and eggs either. I'm an avid label checker anyway, so even my soy sauce is non-GMO.
It's pretty easy to have no GMO ingredients here in Europe but am I correct in thinking they don't need to be labelled in the USA, so could be in anything? I remember they tried to introduce GMO crops in the UK a while back and there was a huge public uproar. I wouldn't trust the big food companies not to modify the makeup of things so they never made us feel satisfied.
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cycworker
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Post by cycworker on Jul 29, 2014 5:58:37 GMT
I'd like to learn more about cooking, too. I mean, I do cook.... but it's very boring, basic stuff. I get tired of tossing a chicken breast or a pork chop on the Foreman Grill, or even, for that matter, just putting a salmon filet in the oven. I always do them the same way and I'm BORED.
My big problems:
-I need recipes that will freeze/reheat well. And is there anything I can prep in advance, divvy up raw and then just take out one portion to cook? I have found few recipes where reheated meat is good, and yet I absolutely HATE it cold.
-I have a limited veggie repertoire. I know I for cooked veggies I like potatoes, broccoli, carrots & corn. I don't hate asparagus. Raw I like lettuce, spinach, purple cabbage, and I can put up with orange or yellow pepper diced really fine. But I'm single. I like my pepper diced so fine I doubt I could use up an entire one before I went bad.
It's not that I'm opposed to trying new things, it's an issue of being on a fixed income. I don't want to spend a decent amount of $ on brussel sprouts or beansonly to discover I truly do hate them, as opposed to just hating how my mother cooked them growing up (my mother boiled EVERYTHING to death).
I know if it involves onion, I will NOT eat it, unless we're talking about a completely pureed soup. I would've said no to even that, but I've discovered that yeah, a few of the pureed soups I've had that I like (butternut squash soup, parsnip soup) started with onion... but it is literally gone, not even a sliver exists when the soup is pureed... there is nothing that the strainer will catch, even if you use a strainer that has holes barely larger than a pin prick.
I feel the same way about tomatoes. I love tomato sauce. But it must be pure sauce.... completely liquid. No solid bits allowed AT ALL.
>>I hear a lot that my kid won't eat this. My kid won't eat that. They will eat when they are hungry. If all you have is healthy food they will eat it. They will not starve themselves. Look around.
Yeah, notsomuch. I was that kid. And no, if I didn't like it, I would NOT have eaten it, even if I was starving. I am still that way. I will NOT eat what I don't like.
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Post by cupcakepeddler on Jul 29, 2014 6:17:56 GMT
MSG is a HUGE problem. Manufacturers routinely add it as an ingredient disguised under other names.
This is a huge problem. In our house we can't have any foods that contain "flavour enhancers" i.e. anything that contains a number starting with a 63. It is in everything chips, crackers, sauces, takeaways, frozen foods even in plain flavoured crackers it is there. My eldest gets severe asthma from this stuff and needs hospitalisation after she has consumed this stuff.
On another note original poster you hit the nail on the head. Five years ago I went through a massive diet overhaul and there was no juice, cordials or soft drinks and then the sweets, frozen foods, pre packaged, white and processed food went. We also cut red meat from our diet and just ate seafood and the very occasional chicken, couple that with a 30 minute walk most nights and I lost 30 kilos in 7 months and I had never felt better in my life. Not rocket science just putting the time and effort into being selective about the foods that we bought and consumed. Somewhere along the line we slipped and fell right back into the bad place that we came from and now I feel as bad if not worse than what I did five years ago.
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