Comments on: What’s For Dinner?

By: Joy aka GoddessJoy

Joy aka GoddessJoy — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 07:25:26 +0000

We saw this fella on Real Time a while ago and it hit home with me. I’ve been trying to get healthy for years, especially since my diagnosis with Rheumatoid Arthritis. I’m totally on board with the “make your own junk food” train. That’s what I do now, and happily perfected my own recipe for Coconut Cupcakes with Coconut Buttercream frosting using REAL butter and cream. Lots more cooking at home, no more coffee (isn’t that change amazing??! I feel soooooo much better now!!) AND walking a bit.

This all started in February, the last week of February to be exact. Since then, I’ve lost 44lbs and my RA is UNDER CONTROL for the first time since my diagnosis. Also, my IBS doesn’t flare every time I eat now, it only flares maybe once a month if I’m letting myself get worn down.

Real food rocks!

By: minnie

minnie — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 02:01:24 +0000

i miss my peach tree. i used to make peach jam every year, and that stuff is sunshine in a jar. i would put it on toast, oatmeal, make sandwiches (with 4 ingredient bread, and, actually, my bread may have a few “more” ingredients, but they’re all good, lol), and put it on pork chops & chicken breasts. the farmer’s market here never has peaches, but i may see if wenninghoffs has any (i can’t get to the farmer’s market downtown anyway, with working saturdays) and yes, i have handknit/crochet market bags, too, lol. and you KNOW what i wear on my feet, lol

By: Taya

Taya — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 22:44:42 +0000

Adding to your “must read” list: Nourishing Traditions by Sally Fallon.

By: EnnaVic

EnnaVic — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 12:39:54 +0000

Michael Pollan’s approach makes a heck of a lot of sense. I came acorss him in an interview on Radio New Zealand and he got me hooked. His is an easy and sane approach to food.

Peach compote looks scrumdumblyumptious :)

By: Brooke

Brooke — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 11:14:48 +0000

Michael Pollan is brilliant! I’ve read The Omnivore’s Dilemma, and have been meaning to pick up this book for some time. I think it’s wonderful that you’re bringing up this subject as well. I’ve always tended to cook from scratch instead of buying pre-packaged food, even when I was at school and on a student’s budget. I can really tell the difference when I’m not eating well these days!

Might I recommend a few blogs? They’re some of my favourite sites for inspiration when it comes to food. Strangely, they’re also all Seattle-based. :)

http://orangette.blogspot.com/
http://teaandcookies.blogspot.com/
http://glutenfreegirl.blogspot.com/

That last one is, as is obviously from the title, a gluten-free blog. But there is so much that you can eat that’s gluten-free anyway, and they’re wonderful cooks!

By: Stephanie

Stephanie — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 10:55:16 +0000

Welcome to the “hippy-crunchy” side!
1. This is what I try to explain to my husband when I get upset because he wants store-bought jam instead of home-made jam. Or bread. Or a dozen other things. But I am slowly bringing him around. He loves to make his own ice cream now. (not that that is too much better than store stuff)
2. This is what I try not to fight with my mom about when she wants to feed my baby stuff that I say no to.

My coworkers say that they are jealous because I come to work with home-made leftovers nearly every day, and I do think it takes time, but the more you do it the less time it takes. Plus, anything that makes you feel better is worth it in my opinion!

By: LaDonna

LaDonna — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 06:21:54 +0000

My boyfriend and I have been on the same quest. I’ve been refraining from eating anything with HFCS in it for a few years now. After watching Food, Inc. and King Corn, we’re truly appalled at what has been passing for “food” these days and have been taking every step possible to eat real, natural food. We’ve switched to grass-finished meat and are now trying to find somebody that raises chickens without feeding them soybeans (that last one is a real toughie). I find I get sick less often and sleep better, too. I can’t even stomach fast food, anymore. It totally makes me ill.

I’m really hoping more people realize the truth about what this crap is doing to us and chance their eating habits, too.

I’ve not yet read that particular book. I’ll have to get it.

By: Rycrafty

Rycrafty — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 13:47:04 +0000

I read that book a few years ago, and while I was always anti-fast food, this really cemented the way I think about food. One change that I can’t quite believe is that I stopped buying ‘light’ sour cream. It has twice the ingredients of the full fat stuff, and most of the extra ingredients are unpronounceable. I haven’t noticed any weight gain from making this type of change (it’s the same with yogurt and other things too).

Another book I read around the same time was called What to Eat by Marion Nestle – also a great read.

I have a bread recipe I love, it makes 4 loaves and takes most of the day (granted a lot of that is various rising times, so not a full-day-working-only-on-bread, but it’s generally a stay-at-home day).

By: Ida

Ida — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 12:29:22 +0000

Great post. I’m one of those who, for many years, was considered to have been born outside my time. I knit, I bake bread, I make my own butter. It’s great. I’ve not had a cold in more than 20 years (seriously) and am seldom sick. I have to think there’s some kind of connection.

By: tinebeest

tinebeest — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 07:41:18 +0000

Hooray! I read the book a few months back, on loan from a colleague (we’re “make your own” foodies). It is worse in the US than here in Europe, but the trends are similar. The book was a shock, but the principles are easy: eat food, not too much, mainly plants. And I believe in his follow-up book he suggests that if you want junk food, make it yourself. It will be healthier and you’ll have less of it because it is quite labour intensive.

I come from a family where my grandparents had an orchard (oh those white peaches!) and a veg garden, and there was/is always proper food on the table. We didn’t know what TV dinners were until we saw one on a foreign television show. Aaah the delights of rural Flanders.

P.S. Good to see you posting regularly again. Thanks :-)