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Choosing your food consciously (know what you eat)

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mvansand76:

--- Quote from: delalluvia on July 22, 2007, 11:30:54 am ---I once went food shopping with my sister and she looked at all the free-range, uncaged, no antibiotic, vegetarian fed chicken products I was buying and said, "Isn't it worse?  To eat happy chickens?"   ;D

You can't be unless you buy direct.  You just have to take your chances.   >:(

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 :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: to the happy chickens...  :D

Can you buy direct where you live?

delalluvia:

--- Quote from: Snavel del Snuit on July 22, 2007, 02:38:50 pm ---
 :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: to the happy chickens...  :D

Can you buy direct where you live?

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Only fruits and vegetables in season.  There are organic farmers who show up at the Farmer's Market, but of course, they only sell what's locally available.  I've never tried to buy a chicken directly from a chicken farmer...though I know one.  Hmm...

Kelda:

--- Quote from: delalluvia on July 19, 2007, 08:13:38 pm ---I guess you'll let us know where this topic is supposed to go?

I'm an unrepentant omnivore.  Being one has been the success of our species and how nature made us to be.  I find myself in the best health of my life when I eat a lot of meat and vegetables, eggs and nuts and very little fruits/sweets and no bread products.  Much like our caveman ancestors probably ate.

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The lack of sugars in itself is good and just because you don't eat fruit if you have the veg it all probably evens out.

There used to be a food coop come in where I worked and that was great - straigh from the Glasgow fruit and veg market and cheap too... but now I work elsewhere and cost means I have to eat straight from the supermarket. I do try when i can to eat local... its scary when you go into the supermarket and see where all your food comes from - coming half way across the world cannot be good for the environment! as a start i try to buy only fruit and veg i pick from the big trays and eliminate as much packaging as possible.

delalluvia:

--- Quote from: Kelda on July 23, 2007, 03:44:21 pm ---The lack of sugars in itself is good and just because you don't eat fruit if you have the veg it all probably evens out.
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With diabetes in my family, I stay away from the sweet starchy vegetables as well.  No beans, corn, sweet potatoes, peas, carrots etc., for me, sadly.
 

--- Quote ---There used to be a food coop come in where I worked and that was great - straigh from the Glasgow fruit and veg market and cheap too... but now I work elsewhere and cost means I have to eat straight from the supermarket. I do try when i can to eat local... its scary when you go into the supermarket and see where all your food comes from - coming half way across the world cannot be good for the environment! as a start i try to buy only fruit and veg i pick from the big trays and eliminate as much packaging as possible.
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Or good for you - they had to have flash frozen/irradiated/slathered on preservatives or stored in airless nitrogen filled bins or something to make them last long enough to get to your local store.  I'm at the fish counter and stare in disbelief at fish for sale that's come from the Phillipines. 

Now, granted, I believe in importing food.  Obviously, in some areas, the local land isn't very good for growing anything other than cotton or hay, neither of which is edible and I'm in a locale hundreds of miles from the ocean - so some things have to come in from better areas, but I try to keep it as local as possible.

Kelda:
do you know, I 'splashed' out and bought some tomatoes still on the vine yesterday from the supermarket. they weren't hugely more expensive than the normal cheap tomatoes I buy.. but the taste! OMG! I think I will begin to splash out on this all the time now.

i can always tell when my student days are leaving me. I have for a few years bought 'nice, fancy' lettuce instead of buying iceberg lettuce... and now its the tomatoes.

Maybe I'll start buying only Heinz beans soon - but I doubt it - I always think a lot of the own brand canned foods or breakfast cereals etc  - are still made by kellogs or heinz etc but just have a different label.

But fresh foods - yeah I think it can make a difference - take strawberries for instance - watery versus juicy and with a very fruity taste - I know it costs a bit more but farmers markets are always nicer for strawberries than the supermarket!

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