We downloaded the app Yuka - you can scan foods and it tells you how many additives and sugar/salt is in it (more details than reading the label). It's been eye opening for us to see stuff we thought was good, but really isn't. We're slowly weeding out the pantry and replacing stuff with better stuff. I wont toss the foods we have - I pa…
We downloaded the app Yuka - you can scan foods and it tells you how many additives and sugar/salt is in it (more details than reading the label). It's been eye opening for us to see stuff we thought was good, but really isn't. We're slowly weeding out the pantry and replacing stuff with better stuff. I wont toss the foods we have - I paid for them and I'm not going to waste it. But I wont replace it with the same products. It's quite the learning curve.
I use Yuka the entire time I am in the store. It is not always spot on, for example I cook with tons of coconut milk and even the really clean brands get a “poor“ rating because of the high fat content. Well, it’s healthy fat, and I use one can in a pot of curry that will serve 10 people so I’m not worried. That said it’s a great app and I love that it offers alternatives!
The high fat is NOT unhealthy. They are still lying about that. It’s only a problem when combined with the unhealthy sugars and high carbs, which would still be unhealthy without the fat. My fat consumption has been through the roof for 2-1/2 years and I lost 55lbs and look fantastic now, and my lipid panels are the healthiest they have been in over 12 years, so … it’s not the fat.
Congratulations, Juju! I lost 50 pounds in 2006 and I have kept it off since. I have a protein heavy diet with vegetables and fruit. I never ever eat fast food or pizza. I stay away from starchy foods and very, very rarely eat bread. On occasion, I will go on a sugary binge, and I always feel like crap until I can reign it back in. Lol. I am in my late 50s and I am not on any meds and have no medical issues at all.
I know how hard it is to lose weight and keep it off so I just wanted to say well done!
And I’ve mastered some heavenly low carb sweet deserts that my family loves if you’re ever interested - just DM me. I haven’t touched real sugar in all this time but have enjoyed a lot of sweet treats. I only sweeten things with erythritol, allulose, stevia, or monk fruit. I even found a heavenly replacement for that famous pretzel jello salad that tastes BETTER than the original and the crust stays crunchy for a few days in the fridge, not getting soggy like the pretzel version did.
It is the cheap processed fats that are the issue. When you realise what they do to extract the oils from seeds you realise what the problem is.
Remember the fuss about "trans fats"? To create trans fats they heated lipids to very high temperatures. To extract the oil they heat the seed to very high temperatures then use chemicals.
Cold pressed oils are fine and this includes olive oil. You need to read the label and remember cold pressed/mechanicsl mesns costs more so in proccessed foods it won't be whether labelled organic or not.
Yes! We switched entirely to butter, tallow, bacon fat - and coconut oil, avocado oil, and olive oil. The latter three we use sparingly for dressings or baking, but when cooking in a skillet it’s always bacon fat, butter, or tallow.
I try to get the majority of my fat naturally from my meats and fish.
The whole saturated fat "bad" is a scam too. Fats are a chain of carbon with hydrogen attached. All saturated means is every carbon atom has a hydrogen atom attached. It's solid at room temperature and it's more stable - that's why it's better to cook at high temperatures. The other types of fat may be "good" but they are also more unstable - the free hydrogen molecules are open to oxygen - oxidized fat isn't healthy. I use bacon fat, coconut oil, ghee and butter to cook. I also use avocado oil for cooking and EVOO for salad dressings. It's the industrial seed oils (vegetable) oils that we need to avoid.
I render fat from the 1/4 cow I buy which is 100% grass fed and finished. I highly recommend it. Ask the butcher to save it for you. Perfect to cook with and lasts and lasts. I freeze the extra in mason jars. We go through it fast. Sometimes I'll cook with coconut oil, avocado oil and EVOO. I make my own beauty products with the tallow as well. The more we can teach ourselves to do the more we can avoid buying the crap that is being mass produced by people who do not care about you! Love sharing with like minded people. Thanks Jenny!
My husband is working on rendering fat and I am OBSESSED with tallow on my skin. I bought a tallow deodorant at my farmer's market yesterday--it smells amazing (who knew?). A super cute young gal started the company (www.motherfocare.com if anyone's curious--she'll ship anywhere!) What else do you make with it???
Tallow for roasting/frying beef and pork fat for roasting /stir-frying veg, that's the absolute bee's knees!
(The easiest way to render tallow is by chopping it up and leaving it in a low slow oven in the baking tray, and just pouring it off from time to time as it renders.)
We buy from a group that supplies grass fed/finished beef, pasture raised chickens and heritage pigs. I'm not sure if they have the fat available but I'm definitely going to see if I can find someone to buy it from. There's a non-woke Canadian company that sells the tallow face cream (F-balm) https://thetallowedtruth.com Great ideas! Thanks for sharing Patti.
I watched a documentary on Woodstock and the first thing that struck me is that there were virtually no obese people. To the contrary everyone looked skinny. I grew up around that time and I certainly did not have a great diet, coke and French fries at the drug store, but no one was heavy. In my all girl high school there were 2 girls who were obese, and they would just be considered heavy today. We have to stop eating food- like substances. I’m a label reader and I was looking for a clean-ish frozen pizza and now there’s a yeast in it that’s grown on mold. Not even real yeast. And recently I have found propylene glycol in cake mixes. It wasn’t there before, why add radiator fluid to cake mixes. And many, many chemicals don’t have to even be labeled just..’ cuz. It’s really challenging to have a decent diet these days. I try to eat organic when I can, but I avoid any grain that’s not organic. They spray glysophate on grains to dessicate them right before harvesting to increase the yield. I’m trying to up my gardening game and figure out what I can forage. Our food system is kind of nuts.
Yes, we drank cola in the 70's and ate desserts and no one was fat. I believe it was in the 1990's they changed from real sugar in cola products to HFCS. A study by Canadian doctors showed that High Fructose Corn Syrup caused Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver Syndrome in mice; basically cirrhosis of the Liver. You can find the research on Weston A. Price Foundation website. https://www.westonaprice.org/health-topics/modern-foods/the-double-danger-of-high-fructose-corn-syrup/#gsc.tab=0
For anyone else: don’t be afraid to toss food. I went ALL IN because I needed immediate help with my health. I took everything out of my pantry and freezers that were bad for me. I divided into boxes the food that wasn’t necessarily evil (like a box of pasta) but was off limits for my chosen diet, and that box I donated to a food pantry. The other box had items like high sugar snacks and sweets, processed and packaged foods with terrible ingredients that I didn’t have the heart to hurt someone else with. The value of that box in 2022 dollars was about $180. Maybe it would cost $320 today? Still that’s less than the cost of a single doctor appointment and an unnecessary prescription or two. Throwing it away didn’t phase me at all. Tossing it was just a medical appointment in my mind to better my health, and save money over future appointments that would never be necessary now. And they weren’t. I’ve only had to see a doctor twice for injuries at the gym. 🤣 Best money I ever threw out!!!!
Great idea. Don't give your crap to a food bank. And definitely don't eat it! I've volunteers at a food bank and although the one close to us gets fresh produce and introduce hydroponics 905 of what goes out their door isn't food and it isn't nutritious.
We downloaded the app Yuka - you can scan foods and it tells you how many additives and sugar/salt is in it (more details than reading the label). It's been eye opening for us to see stuff we thought was good, but really isn't. We're slowly weeding out the pantry and replacing stuff with better stuff. I wont toss the foods we have - I paid for them and I'm not going to waste it. But I wont replace it with the same products. It's quite the learning curve.
I use Yuka the entire time I am in the store. It is not always spot on, for example I cook with tons of coconut milk and even the really clean brands get a “poor“ rating because of the high fat content. Well, it’s healthy fat, and I use one can in a pot of curry that will serve 10 people so I’m not worried. That said it’s a great app and I love that it offers alternatives!
The high fat is NOT unhealthy. They are still lying about that. It’s only a problem when combined with the unhealthy sugars and high carbs, which would still be unhealthy without the fat. My fat consumption has been through the roof for 2-1/2 years and I lost 55lbs and look fantastic now, and my lipid panels are the healthiest they have been in over 12 years, so … it’s not the fat.
Congratulations, Juju! I lost 50 pounds in 2006 and I have kept it off since. I have a protein heavy diet with vegetables and fruit. I never ever eat fast food or pizza. I stay away from starchy foods and very, very rarely eat bread. On occasion, I will go on a sugary binge, and I always feel like crap until I can reign it back in. Lol. I am in my late 50s and I am not on any meds and have no medical issues at all.
I know how hard it is to lose weight and keep it off so I just wanted to say well done!
Aw thanks. You too!
And I’ve mastered some heavenly low carb sweet deserts that my family loves if you’re ever interested - just DM me. I haven’t touched real sugar in all this time but have enjoyed a lot of sweet treats. I only sweeten things with erythritol, allulose, stevia, or monk fruit. I even found a heavenly replacement for that famous pretzel jello salad that tastes BETTER than the original and the crust stays crunchy for a few days in the fridge, not getting soggy like the pretzel version did.
It is the cheap processed fats that are the issue. When you realise what they do to extract the oils from seeds you realise what the problem is.
Remember the fuss about "trans fats"? To create trans fats they heated lipids to very high temperatures. To extract the oil they heat the seed to very high temperatures then use chemicals.
Cold pressed oils are fine and this includes olive oil. You need to read the label and remember cold pressed/mechanicsl mesns costs more so in proccessed foods it won't be whether labelled organic or not.
Yes! We switched entirely to butter, tallow, bacon fat - and coconut oil, avocado oil, and olive oil. The latter three we use sparingly for dressings or baking, but when cooking in a skillet it’s always bacon fat, butter, or tallow.
I try to get the majority of my fat naturally from my meats and fish.
The whole saturated fat "bad" is a scam too. Fats are a chain of carbon with hydrogen attached. All saturated means is every carbon atom has a hydrogen atom attached. It's solid at room temperature and it's more stable - that's why it's better to cook at high temperatures. The other types of fat may be "good" but they are also more unstable - the free hydrogen molecules are open to oxygen - oxidized fat isn't healthy. I use bacon fat, coconut oil, ghee and butter to cook. I also use avocado oil for cooking and EVOO for salad dressings. It's the industrial seed oils (vegetable) oils that we need to avoid.
I render fat from the 1/4 cow I buy which is 100% grass fed and finished. I highly recommend it. Ask the butcher to save it for you. Perfect to cook with and lasts and lasts. I freeze the extra in mason jars. We go through it fast. Sometimes I'll cook with coconut oil, avocado oil and EVOO. I make my own beauty products with the tallow as well. The more we can teach ourselves to do the more we can avoid buying the crap that is being mass produced by people who do not care about you! Love sharing with like minded people. Thanks Jenny!
My husband is working on rendering fat and I am OBSESSED with tallow on my skin. I bought a tallow deodorant at my farmer's market yesterday--it smells amazing (who knew?). A super cute young gal started the company (www.motherfocare.com if anyone's curious--she'll ship anywhere!) What else do you make with it???
Tallow for roasting/frying beef and pork fat for roasting /stir-frying veg, that's the absolute bee's knees!
(The easiest way to render tallow is by chopping it up and leaving it in a low slow oven in the baking tray, and just pouring it off from time to time as it renders.)
We buy from a group that supplies grass fed/finished beef, pasture raised chickens and heritage pigs. I'm not sure if they have the fat available but I'm definitely going to see if I can find someone to buy it from. There's a non-woke Canadian company that sells the tallow face cream (F-balm) https://thetallowedtruth.com Great ideas! Thanks for sharing Patti.
Exactly - I noticed that too. I was scanning peanuts. it said high salt. Um yeah. They're peanuts. :D
I watched a documentary on Woodstock and the first thing that struck me is that there were virtually no obese people. To the contrary everyone looked skinny. I grew up around that time and I certainly did not have a great diet, coke and French fries at the drug store, but no one was heavy. In my all girl high school there were 2 girls who were obese, and they would just be considered heavy today. We have to stop eating food- like substances. I’m a label reader and I was looking for a clean-ish frozen pizza and now there’s a yeast in it that’s grown on mold. Not even real yeast. And recently I have found propylene glycol in cake mixes. It wasn’t there before, why add radiator fluid to cake mixes. And many, many chemicals don’t have to even be labeled just..’ cuz. It’s really challenging to have a decent diet these days. I try to eat organic when I can, but I avoid any grain that’s not organic. They spray glysophate on grains to dessicate them right before harvesting to increase the yield. I’m trying to up my gardening game and figure out what I can forage. Our food system is kind of nuts.
They do that with organic as well I read.
Yes, we drank cola in the 70's and ate desserts and no one was fat. I believe it was in the 1990's they changed from real sugar in cola products to HFCS. A study by Canadian doctors showed that High Fructose Corn Syrup caused Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver Syndrome in mice; basically cirrhosis of the Liver. You can find the research on Weston A. Price Foundation website. https://www.westonaprice.org/health-topics/modern-foods/the-double-danger-of-high-fructose-corn-syrup/#gsc.tab=0
For anyone else: don’t be afraid to toss food. I went ALL IN because I needed immediate help with my health. I took everything out of my pantry and freezers that were bad for me. I divided into boxes the food that wasn’t necessarily evil (like a box of pasta) but was off limits for my chosen diet, and that box I donated to a food pantry. The other box had items like high sugar snacks and sweets, processed and packaged foods with terrible ingredients that I didn’t have the heart to hurt someone else with. The value of that box in 2022 dollars was about $180. Maybe it would cost $320 today? Still that’s less than the cost of a single doctor appointment and an unnecessary prescription or two. Throwing it away didn’t phase me at all. Tossing it was just a medical appointment in my mind to better my health, and save money over future appointments that would never be necessary now. And they weren’t. I’ve only had to see a doctor twice for injuries at the gym. 🤣 Best money I ever threw out!!!!
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Great idea. Don't give your crap to a food bank. And definitely don't eat it! I've volunteers at a food bank and although the one close to us gets fresh produce and introduce hydroponics 905 of what goes out their door isn't food and it isn't nutritious.