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    Quote Originally Posted by pinkytoe View Post
    There is kind of a fun app called Yuka that reads the bar codes of packaged foods and cosmetics. It shows you if too much sugar, carbs, additives etc. I went through my pantry looking at various items and almost all said too much sodium. Even the "healthy" ones.
    How interesting! Wonder what the app's criteria is for deciding if there's too much salt? I'd rather add my own to taste if I have a choice. Most soups, canned or served in restaurants, seem to taste over-salted to us.

    Seems very hard to find any processed foods that have little or no added sugar, salt, dyes or other additives that contribute to our healthy eating. And avoiding wheat is another issue.

    We're trying our best to stick to "one-ingredient" whole foods. Not always easy...
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    I no longer buy certain dairy products like ice cream, cream cheese as they are full of stabilizers (gums) which seem to mess with my digestion. I don't think these things used to be so prevalent but corporations continue to mess with food to increase profits.

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    Quote Originally Posted by pinkytoe View Post
    I no longer buy certain dairy products like ice cream, cream cheese as they are full of stabilizers (gums) which seem to mess with my digestion. I don't think these things used to be so prevalent but corporations continue to mess with food to increase profits.
    You're so right. When I read labels, I get very concerned when I can't even pronounce a lot of what's in it.

    When our food starts to sound like supplies for a chem lab, count me out.

    No wonder a goodly number of our manufactured food products are banned from other nations. Maybe they care more about the well-being of their citizens??

    People over profits?

    Hmmm, I like that idea, how about you?
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    I imagine I fall into the eat to live category. I've surfed the border between vegan and vegetarian for several years. It's a change that requires some getting used to. I think we have inherited some omnivore tendencies from our hunter gatherer ancestors to desire animal fats, sugars, and salt as a survival mechanism. Those tend to be the things we crave in a live to eat pattern. I look forward to my meals and cooking, but I'm always experimenting and not everything tastes good.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Rogar View Post
    I imagine I fall into the eat to live category. I've surfed the border between vegan and vegetarian for several years. It's a change that requires some getting used to. I think we have inherited some omnivore tendencies from our hunter gatherer ancestors to desire animal fats, sugars, and salt as a survival mechanism. Those tend to be the things we crave in a live to eat pattern. I look forward to my meals and cooking, but I'm always experimenting and not everything tastes good.
    Interesting observations! The two of us have also flirted with vegetarianism, too. We go for a period and then one or both of us gets a strong urge for something "meaty" of an animal nature that won't be satisfied until we fulfill it.

    That happens even with plentiful soy protein, lots of beans, nuts and seeds. So I don't think we're lacking adequate protein.

    So, we give into it..and I'll make stuffed cabbage with ground turkey and quinoa--or we'll go to our favorite neighborhood pub and split a very good burger. Then we're good to go for another few weeks.

    One other guilty pleasure that I can resist most of the year is for bacon. I lust for bacon. And so I satisfy the lust maybe twice a year.

    But we're good with sugar, salt, and processed foods 95% so we don't beat ourselves up over our few transgressions...so, yes, I agree we do, most of us, harbor some omnivore inclinations...
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    Quote Originally Posted by HappyHiker View Post
    Interesting observations! The two of us have also flirted with vegetarianism, too. We go for a period and then one or both of us gets a strong urge for something "meaty" of an animal nature that won't be satisfied until we fulfill it.
    I think for most people the Pollen recommendations are a good enough effort for a healthy diet. There are some non health issues around industrial animal husbandry and environmental impact that you don't get around, though. I have a few excursions into carnivore land during the year. I buy a few strips of bacon to make BLTs with the first garden tomatoes of the year and have no qualms about turkey at Thanksgiving. I recall a saying from some corporate training session in my working days, "that which we resist persists". I truly dislike most fish but try to eat some variety of fish once a week at my doctors recommendations.
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    The other night we made Sheperd's Pie with lamb broth and lamb mixed with veg and topped with mashed potatos. I slept like a baby. Something about the cold makes me crave meat and fat so I give in now and then. I have been making all sorts of beans in the crockpot and then freezing jars of them. They taste so much better than canned.

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    Quote Originally Posted by pinkytoe View Post
    The other night we made Sheperd's Pie with lamb broth and lamb mixed with veg and topped with mashed potatos. I slept like a baby. Something about the cold makes me crave meat and fat so I give in now and then. I have been making all sorts of beans in the crockpot and then freezing jars of them. They taste so much better than canned.
    Oh absolutely! We crave stick-to-your-ribs foods during the colder months. Just like the bears before they hibernate--maybe we need to put on an extra layer of fat to keep warm?? This was discussed in a popular alternative doctor's book I have (first printed 1981) by integrative physician Elson Haas, M.D. It's called Staying Healthy with the Seasons. Our best food choices reflect the seasons.

    I could almost live on salads and cool foods in the summer. But come winter? I'm with you! Bring on the carbs and the heartiness. I, too, am making stews, chili, bean soups and such. That's what my body craves and I tend to listen....
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    Whole food plant based. No dairy, no oils. No alcohol, no sugar, no processed food. Vegetables of all kinds. Berries and small amounts of other fruits. As much as I can find are organic, no preservatives and non gmo.
    I eat the rainbow every day. Beans, seeds, nuts, lentils, wild rice, steel cut oats. Tofu, Lots of spices.
    in my mid seventies.

    no medications, ton of energy, sleep great.

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    Quote Originally Posted by flowerseverywhere View Post
    Whole food plant based. No dairy, no oils. No alcohol, no sugar, no processed food. Vegetables of all kinds. Berries and small amounts of other fruits. As much as I can find are organic, no preservatives and non gmo.
    I eat the rainbow every day. Beans, seeds, nuts, lentils, wild rice, steel cut oats. Tofu, Lots of spices.
    in my mid seventies.

    no medications, ton of energy, sleep great.
    That's great. You're a testimonial to eating the good life!
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