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Diet decisions NOT based on diabetes

Oh, same with egg and baked bean juice. They shouldn't touch. Ever.

And the really important thing about both a full fry up, and a Sunday roast, is that my last full mouthfuls contain a small portion of everything. Very important
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Isn't that a contradiction?
 
Brunneria said:
I have a bit of a thing about carrot and tomato. I don't like them together. The flavours are wrong somehow.

Oh, same with egg and baked bean juice. They shouldn't touch. Ever.

And the really important thing about both a full fry up, and a Sunday roast, is that my last full mouthfuls contain a small portion of everything. Very important.

Also, I've always wanted to eat off a blue plate. Someone once told me that 'there is no blue food, so all food contrasts well against a blue background'. So of course I want to try it!
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Tihs is the porcelain I use: https://encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com/...VV7u-GV0kAKnBw6dfp0OSsAo-8_f9T94oUX1J1ZnKwKpw
For special occasions and weekends, not everyday use!
 
Spiker said:
I drink Rooibos tea all the time. It keeps me hydrated and it's caffeine free.
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Cheers, Spiker. I hadn't heard of it before, but picked up some today. Tetley rooibos and vanilla. It tastes like a Yankee candle, but I like it! :hungry:
 
semiphonic said:
Ok I'm going to ask the question that's on everyone's lips.................

HOW DO YOU KNOW WHAT A YANKEE CANDLE TASTES LIKE??????
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LOL you know what I mean! Give it a try....no milk or sugar required as it is so sweet (and candley)
 
Harpar said:
Don't buy Kosher or Halal on principal.
Don't eat any grains, feel much better for that.
Luckily, we are in a position to grow or raise virtually all our own food - but that actually takes a lot of a hard work too. Its not just the growing of the stuff, its the picking and processing - beans all need topping and tailing before going in the freezer, peppers all need slicing and freezing, toms need de-skinning and bottling, beans for drying all need harvesting and podding etc. etc.
Eggs from the chooks.
Meat - chickens and rabbits, possibly pigeon next year too. Pork and lamb from local farm.
Basically I like my animals to have been happy and healthy.
Try to avoid stuff that incurs transport or air miles, if I can produce it myself I do, even if the product can be bought cheaply I can't justify buying it, specially if it has travelled half way round the world, if I am perfectly capable of growing it myself.
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I will not eat Halal - I think the slaughter carried out is barbaric, and I dislike thinking that animals should be badly treated.
 
I am happy for all of you who can buy expensive food, and eat it on beautiful plates.
I think many people have big difficulties in finding food on their budgets. Fortunately there are food banks - but these seem to be extremely busy and well used. I also suspect that if you are hungry - and I mean hungry after not eating because you do not have food - then you dont really care where your food came from, or what the ingredients are. All you are interested in is filling the hole in your stomach.
As for myself, I use the supermarkets for packs, cans and cleaning materials. I will use Morrison's fish counter - their fish looks good, and appears well sourced. It is certainly fresh and tasty. I like to have fish regularly - sometimes once each day of the week. I watch cost - but find mackerel, herring, sardines are good value - and look for the offers - mussels, octopus, squid, bream, hake and gurnard. Although I enjoy red meat, I restrict the amount I eat.
I am lucky in having a good street market that is reasonable. The traders cannot sell expensive items which rules out items that have a large carbon footprint. I like purchasing goods that are in season - somehow the flavour is better. Veg and fuit is great - but you need a preparation space to make soups and salads. I love beetroot soups - that is a very filling vegetable - but needs time to cook. It does not look so good on blue plates ;-)
I am not a great lover of restaurants. They make dishes that I can make both much better and cheaper. I love Italian food - but restaurants give helpings that well exceed the amount of carbohydrate that I wish to consume.
I think we all should be aware of the nutritional value of food, and we should be responsible for eating a well balanced nutritious diet. Sadly there are too many people who find it difficult to fund the time, and/or the money, and/or have difficulty in preparing the food.
 
I prefer not to have kosher or halal meat because it's cruel and therefore the animals will have released fear hormones before they died and so I don't fancy eating the meat killed in this way as I don't think it can be as healthy. I normally buy the best ingredients I can afford at the time. I am quite a fussy eater so that restricts me somewhat already so I daren't put any more restrictions on what I buy or the choice would be extremely limited.
 
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zand said:
I prefer not to have kosher or halal meat because it's cruel and therefore the animals will have released fear hormones before they died and so I don't fancy eating the meat killed in this way. I normally buy the best ingredients I can afford. I am quite a fussy eater so that restricts me somewhat already so I daren't put any more restrictions on what I buy or the choice would be extremely limited.
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You may well be still eating it if you buy your meat from a supermarket, there was a programme on tv a month or two back saying that Halal meat is routinely being sold in shops.......... yet isn't labelled as such.
 
noblehead said:
You may well be still eating it if you buy your meat from a supermarket, there was a programme on tv a month or two back saying that Halal meat is routinely being sold in shops.......... yet isn't labelled as such.
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Yes very true, I accept that sometimes I will be buying it, but I try to do my best not to.
 
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