Organic food in supermarkets

Kirri

I just had to google that Granovita product, even I would struggle to be tempted to try it.. maybe it's better than it sounds?!

I love Galaxy not had it in ages though.

The DF mexican burgers are one of my fave items!!

The only Amisa product I've tried are the coconut and dairy free choc rice cakes - nice enough but prefer the Kallo real choc ones..

Edwardia

Kirri I think we may take photos when we open that nut luncheon stuff :rotfl:

OH looked incredulous that you like the Mexican spice burgers. :eek: We're not great fans of soya, we lived on soya mince lasagne, soya cottage pie, chilli con soya, soya loaf, soya bolognese and soya curry for longer than we care to remember

The Goodlife nut cutlets are way better, way. In fact, to borrow a foodie term used by the late Michael Winner, they are "historic".

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Edwardia wrote: »

Kittie welcome :j Hemp milk sounds brave to me.. I've had Faith in Nature hemp and something shower gel <holds nose>

Me too, I want to know why not on the peanuts.]

Re hemp milk: I just made some 1/2 c hulled hemp seeds, 2 medijool dates, 4c filtered water. Blitz hard. Thats all and it is nice but yes doesn`t taste like milk. Hemp is such a brilliant food

re peanuts, we grew up on peanut butter and so did our children. They affect my stomach and so I never eat them. They are also well below tree nuts in nutrition, so we eat other nuts and seeds in preference

I have to admit to never buying ready made `veggie` food and never buy soya. Many of the rm meals are so high in fat and low on nutrition.

I have been reading some lovely books by an author called shazzie. Very informative and I am raring to go with some new `raw` recipes esp the chocolate ones. I have all the ingredients in a special cupboard and also in a fridge. Perhaps I should not be on this particular thread as I get it all via the net, none of it is available from supermarkets. Sorry, I had better leave

Kirri

No don't leave kittie! This thread has become so much more than just the supermarket as I think most people have found they have to source from various ways to get what they want and that the supermarkets are mostly fairly lacking in the wide variety of items we want in organic/additive free. It's useful to see all the different links and varieties of places others find on here, or even just the various types of food/diets that are covered. You can probably add in quite a lot to the thread that isn't covered.

Edwardia - I had those burgers on repeat order! Maybe it's because I have less choice in suitable items that I'm more easily pleased, I did find the taste better than a lot of similar though. However I will compare the Goodlife nut cutlets maybe today. Would like to see a nut luncheon serving suggestion pic :rotfl:

davecooper71

Myself and my Wife, have discovered the joys of getting healthy through vegetable juicing - i.e. no fat at all. theres various techniques on this such as cold pressed juicing which keeps the nutrients.

there is a fab blogger on this who we follow - great celery recipes! - http://www.rootsandbulbs.com/cold-pressed-juice-bar-london/

Mojisola

davecooper71 wrote: »

Myself and my Wife, have discovered the joys of getting healthy through vegetable juicing - i.e. no fat at all. theres various techniques on this such as cold pressed juicing which keeps the nutrients.

Some fats are essential to good health.

Kirri

Soil Association chairman caught up in Twitter badger cull row

http://www.farmersguardian.com/home/hot-topics/bovine-tb/monty-don-quits-twitter-after-badger-cull-row/60436.article


I've just had a Goodlife nut cutlet - lot of taste, like the texture a lot with the nut pieces, if they weren't that big I wouldn't know there were nuts in it though as the taste is a bit samey like most cheap vegburgers. I found the taste a bit chain-pub-processed-veggieburger-offering-like! and a bit salty. I don't dislike them, would use them again as a handy thing for a rare lazy vegan meal and they are cheap per portion for this type of meal.

Edwardia

Kittie please don't go.. I started the thread six months after going organic because it was a PITA to be running around four supermarkets every week tying to find organic. I live in a town of 50,000 people without a farmer's market, and the few independent foodshops here don't sell organic meat, veg, bread etc.

So the thread is for people interested in going organic and starting with additive free, it's for people who eat organic, sharing how they do it. It's for people who have additional dietary allergies and/or ways of eating such as vegetarian, vegan, low carb, gluten free.

We source food from different places because we don't eat in exactly the same way and that's fine.

With Mojisola on the principle of needing fats but it would nice to be able to drink juices as an alternative to water, tea and coffee. As someone with diabetes, my blood glucose spikes if I drink OJ for example. OH would certainly be interested in juicing though. Thanks for the link dave

Kirri OH is gonna look crestfallen that you didn't like the nut cutlets, all After the Dragonfly Mexican spice burger OH's stomach really swelled up.. wondering if now allergic to soya.. he certainly looked seven months pregnant :rotfl:

My mother has a sett in her garden and she lurves the badgers. She wouldn't let anyone on her land to gas/shoot them that's for sure !

Kirri

Edwardia wrote: »

Kirri OH is gonna look crestfallen that you didn't like the nut cutlets, all After the Dragonfly Mexican spice burger OH's stomach really swelled up.. wondering if now allergic to soya.. he certainly looked seven months pregnant :rotfl:

My mother has a sett in her garden and she lurves the badgers. She wouldn't let anyone on her land to gas/shoot them that's for sure !

I'm going to try and recreate my own version of a nut cutlet I think, I like the idea!

Maybe he needs to go in the drs for an overhaul! do they still put people in for those needle allergy tests and are they any good?

I'd love to have a garden with a badger sett.. I am curious to find out which organic farms are involved in the cull zone, as personally I would rather avoid any, I thought I'd read the main big ones weren't though.

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oh thank you thank you, I am so glad that it is about more than supermarket shopping. I would love to stay but didn`t want to bring in a whole new angle if not wanted. Brilliant

re fats: yes they are vital to good health. omega 3 6 and 9 in the correct proportions. If not sure then just take udos oil.

Let me go over our meals today for an example of how we eat most days but not all days as we are not saints
Breakfast: hm granola different every time depends what is handy and if nuts have been soaked but made recently from jumbo oats, spelt flakes, milled sprouted hemp, honey, cacoa nibs, goji berries, chopped dried apricots, roasted hazels. All mixed with a little water a a bit of coc*n*t oil and dehydrated about 10 hours at 105 degrees. Served with hemp milk today

Later smoothies: strawberries, blueberries, hm vanilla yoghurt, some coconut water

lunch; green juice, today was bramley apple, cucumber, home sprouted alfalfa, baby spinach, water. Was nice too
then wholegrain kamut pasta with tomato sauce made yesterday ie blitzed plum tomatoes, shallot, garlic, basil. Cooked 40 mins and parmesan
yummy raw chocolate

Tea at 5. Bacon and egg sandwich (lol see!)

I confess to having grown up children and now being 2 of us retired so can afford the gadgets and ingredients. Life was very tough at times when younger, no money and several recessions so we lived on beans and tvp etc so please don`t get the wrong idea about my way of eating now. It is simply that the older we get, the more important it has become. I own a vitamix, an excalibur dehydrator, a goodprocessor and have a small allotment

I was a physicist and became a homeopath and am very knowledgable about health stuff and eating but that is me and I am a capricorn with new age tendencies

There is a lot of info on the net these days, milk it for all it is worth

We have a very old green life juicer, still going strong. It has twin gears that rotate slowly. We have used it a lot but now am liking the fibre as well as from the vitamix, cold juicing has its place but the fibre is essential. The green life can make nut butters very well, also banana ice cream