Organic food in supermarkets

Kirri

Fire_Fox wrote: »

I'd be interested in the Goodness Direct code/ a link to wherever the code is posted please.

There was one posted on their facebook page, seems to be a fairly ongoing discount.

Still there, not sure if we are supposed to post it though? Was posted on 26/4 (they have 2 pages, it's on the non group page).

***cupcake***_2

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/60442977#Comment_60442977

I popped the code on the discounts board for those interested.


I'm happy with my order, deliver by Citylink, tracked , and you are able to leave a note on the order to leave in a place of your choice if you will be out.

***cupcake***_2

From BBC Good Food Magazine May Edition

Www.donaldrussell.com/bbcgf56

£29 Traditional Steak Selection:

2 Sirloin steaks
2 Ribeye Steaks
4 Pave Rump Medallions
1 Pave Rump Steak
6 mini Steak Burgers
4 Pork Sausages
440g Beef Stir Fry Strips

Delivered Free

Edwardia

Got an email from Holland & Barrett this evening and got a reward coupon for £1 valid until July

In the Evening Standard's ES magazine on page 47, chef Angela Hartnett does some blind tasting. Out of a possible three stars, Sainsbury's SO organic houmous 200g 1.10 gets two but she wouldn't want to eat it. Tesco Finest wild Alaskan smoked salmon 100g £5 is the only product to get three stars and she says it has a lovely texture, isn't too salty and has a smoky taste.

There was a page of eco-friendly offers - no codes you just visit the websites:
Paramo Outdoor Clothing www.paramo.co.uk/londonstore
Style With Heart eco-friendly fashion www.stylewithheart.com
Onevillage has an offer on soaps 4 for £10 including p&p www.onevillage.com
Noah Italian Vegan Shoes www.noah-shop.com
ecoTEC boilers from Vaillant www.vaillantthinksahead.co.uk
Pulse Eco Shower www.pulseecoshower.com
Viridian Nutrition (40% of the range is certified organic) www.viridian-nutrition.com
Ecoigo Car Service www.ecoigo.com
Razzle Dazzle Ices are vegan available from Vx in Caledonian Road, N1; Revital Stores and Ms Cupcake, Brixton
www.razzledazzleices.co.uk
Earth and Nature new eco-friendly cruelty free veggie products www.earthandnature.co.uk

Thanks to ***cupcake*** for sharing the Goodness Direct and Donald Russell offers.

Thanks to Kirri for doing all those links re: suntan lotion xxx I have warned OH about suntan lotion in fridge. My mother reminded me to let it warm up before putting it on as evidently when I had chicken pox as a kid I fainted at the coldness of the calamine lotion and gave myself concussion.

Fire Fox - will be defrosting freezer tomorrow, have chucked in all the blue blocks and A&C blocks we could find tonight, put everything we will eat over weekend in fridge and then we will use the A&C cool wool box with blocks while we defrost. Goodness Direct frozen stuff could be a good freezer filler

Personally I won't eat glucose-fructose syrup or any other chemical additive, flavouring or preservative having seen how not eating them improved my blood test results. Can't see the point in posting up food with additives in on this thread cos that's conventional food. This started as organic and has encompassed wild and additive free too but if additives are OK might as well give up and do the website I should be doing but haven't yet

Edwardia

This Parma ham is additive free, just pork legs and salt and has the gold crown on the packaging. It says 12 month matured but so is the Lidl one. Yes at the moment it's half price at 1.99 but that still means you're getting 20g less than at Lidl (always 1.99) even though the slices look bigger.

Worth getting if you're not near a Lidl while on offer I guess, but it doesn't taste better than the Lidl one. Both are traditionally made.

lindseykim13

Is glucose-fructose syrup the same as fructose?

Edwardia

Good question.

Fructose is a natural fruit sugar which comes in fruit with fibre, in nature. It can only be processed by the liver. When you take the fibre away ie juice, it's really not as healthy as manufacturers of juices from concentrate would have you believe.

Granulated or table sugar, refined from either cane sugar or sugar beet is 50% glucose, 50% fructose. Glucose goes straight into the bloodstream, it doesn't need to be processed. Everything in life uses glucose - every human, every animal, every plant. Glucose is only bad if your body can't process it.

If you look at the chemical structure diagram of glucose-fructose syrup (known as high fructose corn syrup in USA or HFCS) it looks different to sugar but once it gets in the body the linking bit between the two disappears and it behaves like sugar, it's as bad as sugar.

In the UK the percentage of glucose to fructose isn't shown in glucose-fructose syrup, in the US you may see a number after HFCS indicating how high the fructose is.

HFCS was developed in Japan in the 1970s, and is usually made from corn (maize). Since the USA subsidises corn it's cheaper than sugar and used in loads of stuff and most American corn these days is genetically modified.

Back in the 70s there were scientists who believed fat was the enemy and others who believed that sugar was. The people advocating low fat won. Though their research is discredited governments and health still push the low fat message.

If you eat fruit you get your fructose with fibre and you'll get vitamins and other good stuff and because it has fibre you'll eat less of it.

If you eat fructose in a refined form, it behaves in the body like alcohol and causes all sorts of damage.

Dr Robert Lustig MD explains it all better and 3 million people have watched this video. He's a pediatric endocrinologist, he is director of a child obesity clinic, he lectures at universities in USA and has written books.

Sugar: the Bitter Truth
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM

Edwardia

The pancreas produces insulin which shoves glucose into cells for energy. People with Type 1 diabetes don't produce insulin so have to inject it. People with Type 2 diabetes either don't produce enough insulin or are resistant to it and generally this happens over time. People with Type 1.5 diabetes don't produce insulin and are resistant to it (rarest type).

Since I have Type 2 I try to help myself by avoiding carbohydrates and sugars as much as possible. I don't have sweeteners of any kind either.

It's only when you start looking at labels and finding sugar in everything from indigestion tablets to soup, that you realise it's everywhere. Add sugar to food and it hides salt. We are conditioned to like sweet food because in nature nothing which tastes sweet is poisonous.

But sugar and fructose are pretty toxic and we'd all be waaay healthier without them.

At this point I will confess to having eaten a couple of scoops of Green & Black's organic vanilla ice cream while watching 'Insomnia' tonight :rotfl::o

sophlowe45

Great to have some more information on glucose fructose syrup.

I've just realised that Koko Coconut milk that I have been having for a long time has crap ingredients. Sucrose Ester???

Filtered Water, Coconut Milk (8.4%), Grape Juice Concentrate, Calcium Phosphate, Emulsifier: Sucrose Ester, Thickener: Carrageenan, Sea Salt, Vitamin D2, Vitamin B12, Colour: Natural Carotene

I will now stop posting ingredients of things I buy and focus on reading carefully before ordering.

Yes I am sure I have seen sugar listed in some prescription medications I have taken in the past.

I sent a follow up email to Ethical superstore asking what their complaints procedure is. Should I wait for 5 working days for them to reply?

Edwardia

sophlowe45 - I dn't want anyone to feel that they can't post ingredients of things they've bought or spotted and asking questions... no don't get that impression. Obviously I didn't explain well..

If someone said I found this ice cream on offer but it's got <made up chemical name warning> sodium dimethane fluorophosphate, what is that.. then hopefully someone would know or we'd help find out.

If someone said I can't afford organic but which of these two products sounds healthier again hopefully collectively we'd be able to help

But if someone said Iceland has Mars bars 3 for 2 that's conventional carp and if it will make a racehorse fail a dope test (No Bombs, Ascot, 1979) I for one don't want to be eating it.

If other people do, fine but there are plenty of other places on MSE to talk about/post info on offers on that stuff.

Originally this thread was just about organic food and it has widened to encompass wild and additive free food as well. I hope that's broad enough while still being healthy ?