Posts Tagged ‘Organic food’

Feedback and Recipes!

Saturday, April 17th, 2010

It’s day 3 of the cleanse and I wanted to give a report, along with a couple of my fav recipes! So far, I feel good. Yesterday had quite a strong craving for sugar, but knocked it out by using stevia in my cranberry juice mix before & after dinner. Have seen a small skin rash/blemish near my ankle, which is actually a good sign. Often as salad bowltoxins begin releasing, we see skin outbreaks, rashes, etc. Don’t be alarmed. It should clear up in a couple of days as the cleanse takes these toxins out of the body.
With food, I want to make sure everyone is EATING ENOUGH! This is not a starvation cleanse, and you can eat plenty of foods, as long as it’s the right foods. Try to include even more fresh vegetables each day – even at breakfast! I will often incorporate at least one veggie in my breakfast – like spinach or tomato or celery. It can be done! If you are going to cheat (a tad bit) it’s best to do it during week two or three. A good, clean cheat is Dr. Praeger’s spinach or brocolli pancakes (they have a bit of potato in them) or veggie burgers. They are yummy!
RECIPES:
HUMMUS
Someone asked about chickpeas, and yes, they are allowed. I love to make fresh hummus and it is delicious!
Fresh or canned garbanzo beans
Blend with mixer.
Slowly add olive oil until creamy (not runny)
Add garlic powder and fresh lemon juice to taste.
Scoop with veggies, ricecakes or add to a salad!

BROWN RICE BOWL
This is a standby for me. It is so easy and simply yummy and satisfying.
Cook 1/2 cup brown rice
Cook 1/4 – 1/2 lb ground turkey, chicken or lamb
Optional: lightly cooked garlic pieces
While warm, put brown rice in bowl, top with fresh baby spinach leaves, veggies of choice (cucumber, carrots, tomato, onion, kale (steamed), radish, etc)
Put ground meat on top of veggies
Top with sesame seeds &/or a sprinkling of raisins (a slight cheat)
Drizzle with olive oil and fresh lemon juice.
(When not on cleanse, you can add feta cheese for a dish that is out of this world!)

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FDA – The Food & Drug Abomination

Wednesday, March 10th, 2010

Genetically Modified Food

Genetically Modified Food

I just can’t keep my mouth shut any longer. I don’t have the clout to go meet with Michelle or Ms. Hamburg regarding the state of our FDA (just yet), but I do have a voice and if you eat food, have children that eat food or grow food to eat, I hope you’ll find an outlet for your voice too.
The FDA is not protecting us. Ajinomoto’s newly branded “Aminosweet” (read: aspartame) just sparked my fire once again with regards to how poor of a job this nation is doing with nutrition. And the FDA is allowing it. From artificial chemicals to genetically modified foods, sweetners that destroy our health (Mercola’s site for a good read), we are becoming chemically filled zombies, with a rate of disease and obesity that is our of control. The substances that the FDA allows in our “food” is atrocious. To make it worse, we’re not only feeding our children this crap, we encourage it because these unidentifiable scientific substances comes in pretty, shiny boxes with lots of colors. (ModernSage) Obviously, our trusted and well-paid staff of THE FDA is not doing a damn thing about it, so it’s left into the hands of us. It requires two things: 1 – we use our God-given smarts and 2 – we make choices accordingly.
Yes, we are a people easily influenced, BUT, we are influencial people. If enough stop buying that garbage they call food, they will pay attention. Someday. We’ve already seen a drastic movement to organic lifestyle in the mainstream, and the FDA trying to get there hands in the “alternative supplement” world. Why? There’s a lot of money in that industry.
Let’s not take it any longer. Do your own research. Just because the FDA “approves” something doesn’t mean it’s safe. More than likely, there’s a lot of money behind that decision and it’s not money that’s going toward the health of you or your family.
This subject is a passion of mine, and should be yours. This is a large topic, and there will be more to come. In the meantime, if you’re at work and want to do a bit of research, grab a box of whatchamacallit and see for yourself – just type in one of the 50 ingredients and see what you think.
Help me stop the madness. Eat real food

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Real Food vs. Label De-Coding

Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009

EAT REAL FOOD – food in its natural, pure state. It will help prevent disease, obesity, cravings and ill-feelings. Trust me on this one. When I look at product labels, one way to discern is to go with the label that has the fewest ingredients, like the items below.

Label Reading

Label Reading

Peanut Butter:

Natural Peanut Butter – Peanuts, Salt 

“Other” Peanut Butter – Roasted Peanuts, Sugar, Molasses, Partially Hydrogenated Vegetable (Soybean) Oil, Fully Hydrogenated Vegetable (Rapeseed and Soy) Oils, Mono & Diglycerides, Salt

Yogurt:Organic Yogurt – Cultured Pasteurized Organic Low Fat Milk, Inulin, Pectin, 6 Live Active Cultures including L. Acidophilus, Bifidus, L. Casei & L. Reuteri

“Other” Yogurt – Sugar, Non Fat Milk, Reduced Fat Milk (cultured, pasteurized), High Fructose Corn Syrup, Modified Corn Starch, Kosher Gelatin, Nitrogen, Potassium Sorbate (added to maintain freshness), Vit. A Acetate, Lactic Acid Esters of Mono & Diglycerides, Cherry Puree

 
High Fructose Corn Syrup is BAD NEWS. Look it up! The bottom line?  It’s been linked to obesity, diabetes, hypoglycemia and cardiovascular disease. 

Partially Hydrogenated Vegetable Oils: – Want to complicate matters for your heart? Raise your “bad” cholesterol and lower the “good” cholesterol? Increase chance of heart disease? Eat Partially Hydrogenated Vegetable Oils. These fats are the BAD fats, the trans fats, the fats that clog up your arteries. Avoid them. (Even though our FDA considers them safe, ugh) Good read here: http://www.bantransfats.com/whatnottoeat.html and here: http://cspinet.org/new/pdf/trans_q_a.pdf  *Fully Hydrogenated Vegetable Oils – Not nearly as bad.  The full hydrogenation process increases the amount of saturated fat, but most of that is stearic acid, which doesn’t raise “bad” (LDL) cholesterol levels. 

Potassium Sorbate – There’s quite a bit of controversy over this one, but regardless, it is used as a preservative in MANY foods. My thought, until we know FOR SURE what the potential health hazards are of all additives and preservatives, avoid when possible.  For a short explanation on additives, go to http://www.answers.com/topic/food-additive. 

Esters of Mono & Diglycerides: http://www.ukfoodguide.net/e472b.htm 

Other ingredients found in many products off the commercial shelves that you should be wary of: Calcium Disodium EDTA as Preservative, BHA, BHT, Aspartame, Food colorings, Sucralose, Artificial Flavors (very suspicious), and many more (see link above for list).

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