Gone For Good
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"ImStillMags" wrote in message
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The FDA new guidelines are better, but why can't they be in plain
English....oh, yeah, let's not offend the food lobby.
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/02/08/is-eat-real-food-unth...
and he doesn't spare offending Oprah eiither
"Which brings us to the powerful person: Oprah. Ms. Winfrey, who has
been on more diets than the rest of us combined, challenged her staff
to ?go vegan? for a week. Intriguing, except her idea of surviving
without meat and dairy ? no explanation given for why we should go
from too much to none ? is to fill your shopping cart with fake
versions of both, like meatless chicken breasts and dairy-less cheese.
"
yup....fake is not better.
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The diet that I naturally prefer is almost vegan. I do eat some cheese and
occasionally meat. But the bulk of it is natural foods like vegetables and
rice. I do eat things like bread, tortillas and rice pasta. But I could and
have pretty much live on vegetables. I do not eat soy with the exception of
soy lecithin and some soybean oil if I can't escape it. I have made raw
vegan nut cheeses. The nacho cheese sauce that I made went over well with
everyone who tried it. I have also made raw onion bread that contains only
flax and no other grains like wheat. Made into finger sandwiches with Swiss
nut cheese, lettuce and tomato it is divine. You would swear you were
eating a hearty grain baked bread. But that kind of stuff can be a lot of
work to make. Especially the onion bread. So it is not something I do very
often.
I do buy Sunshine burgers. They are made of black beans. They are very
good but they taste like beans. Not meat. I do not buy them to make me
think I am eating meat. Many years ago I used to buy the American flavor
Boca Burgers. They were good. Very good. Everyone I served them to would
ask me what kind of meat they were. But then I learned that the soy was
messing with my thyroid. I do not miss them at all. I do not buy fake
meats. I have seen things like Seitan. I have never even tried them. I
was forced to eat TVP for a period of time as a child. We were temporarily
broke due to my dad's hours being cut at work. That stuff was horrid and we
all threw a party when we no longer had to eat it. I would never feed that
to my daughter. If things got really bad like that in our family we would
just eat beans.
I have bought some of the fake cheeses. I did like the almond cheese. But
then I developed the almond allergy. I sometimes like the vegan Rice
cheese, but it has this weird, oddly rich aftertaste. I haven't bought it
in a while and can live without it. But when you are allergic to dairy
(like I was), you will try anything and everything (at least at first) to
get the food you miss. Thankfully I have outgrown the dairy allergy.
I do think that the less we mess with our food, the better.
news:7f5f6d1f-3379-45dc-98aa-90dd614aa72e@y12g2000prf.googlegroups.com...
The FDA new guidelines are better, but why can't they be in plain
English....oh, yeah, let's not offend the food lobby.
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/02/08/is-eat-real-food-unth...
and he doesn't spare offending Oprah eiither
"Which brings us to the powerful person: Oprah. Ms. Winfrey, who has
been on more diets than the rest of us combined, challenged her staff
to ?go vegan? for a week. Intriguing, except her idea of surviving
without meat and dairy ? no explanation given for why we should go
from too much to none ? is to fill your shopping cart with fake
versions of both, like meatless chicken breasts and dairy-less cheese.
"
yup....fake is not better.
---
The diet that I naturally prefer is almost vegan. I do eat some cheese and
occasionally meat. But the bulk of it is natural foods like vegetables and
rice. I do eat things like bread, tortillas and rice pasta. But I could and
have pretty much live on vegetables. I do not eat soy with the exception of
soy lecithin and some soybean oil if I can't escape it. I have made raw
vegan nut cheeses. The nacho cheese sauce that I made went over well with
everyone who tried it. I have also made raw onion bread that contains only
flax and no other grains like wheat. Made into finger sandwiches with Swiss
nut cheese, lettuce and tomato it is divine. You would swear you were
eating a hearty grain baked bread. But that kind of stuff can be a lot of
work to make. Especially the onion bread. So it is not something I do very
often.
I do buy Sunshine burgers. They are made of black beans. They are very
good but they taste like beans. Not meat. I do not buy them to make me
think I am eating meat. Many years ago I used to buy the American flavor
Boca Burgers. They were good. Very good. Everyone I served them to would
ask me what kind of meat they were. But then I learned that the soy was
messing with my thyroid. I do not miss them at all. I do not buy fake
meats. I have seen things like Seitan. I have never even tried them. I
was forced to eat TVP for a period of time as a child. We were temporarily
broke due to my dad's hours being cut at work. That stuff was horrid and we
all threw a party when we no longer had to eat it. I would never feed that
to my daughter. If things got really bad like that in our family we would
just eat beans.
I have bought some of the fake cheeses. I did like the almond cheese. But
then I developed the almond allergy. I sometimes like the vegan Rice
cheese, but it has this weird, oddly rich aftertaste. I haven't bought it
in a while and can live without it. But when you are allergic to dairy
(like I was), you will try anything and everything (at least at first) to
get the food you miss. Thankfully I have outgrown the dairy allergy.
I do think that the less we mess with our food, the better.