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A question about ingredients in LC proucts
Hi to everyone.
Everytime I go to the supermarket and pass in front of the LC section , I want to buy everything because the names are so apealing, when I start to check the carb content and then the ingredients I trow everything back, To many ingredients that I can't even pronounce. If I want the taste of chockolate or strawberry , I whip unsweetened cocoa or strawberry extract with heavy cream and freeze it if i want icecream or drink it as it is. Somewhere I readed that food has to come from a farm not a factory I am not bashing LC diets , I am doing Atkins myself, and I feel a lot better, but has anyone read "The good life" and "living the good life" from Helen and Scott Nearing? her husband died with 100 years old and still was cutting wood logs with an ax days before, he got old with QUALITY Am I the only one? |
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A question about ingredients in LC proucts
No you are not the only one.
Some of us started low carbing years ago when to eat low carb meant you had to eat nothing but real food and do a lot of cooking, too. We lost weight. I view the influx of bogus "low carb" products full of chemicals and high-carb sugar alcohols with dismay. People are trying the diet and concluding that it doesn't work without ever, really, low carbing. But if you read messages here you'll find that most of the long-term low carbers who have made this a successful way of life do stick pretty closely to simple ingredients. OTOH, as far as living the long life goes, my dad ate like a hermit, my mom ate like a lady who loves to shop, he was thin and fit, she was plump and never did an exercise in her life. She's 88, he's 98 and they're both still alive and living on their own. My mom had a LOT more fun along the way. g -- Jenny - Low Carbing for 4 years. At goal for weight. Type 2 diabetes, hba1c 5.2. Cut the carbs to respond to my email address! Low carb facts and figures, my weight-loss photos, tips, recipes, strategies for dealing with diabetes and more at http://www.geocities.com/jenny_the_bean/ Looking for help controlling your blood sugar? Visit http://www.alt-support-diabetes.org/...0Diagnosed.htm "Barlovento" wrote in message ... Hi to everyone. Everytime I go to the supermarket and pass in front of the LC section , I want to buy everything because the names are so apealing, when I start to check the carb content and then the ingredients I trow everything back, To many ingredients that I can't even pronounce. If I want the taste of chockolate or strawberry , I whip unsweetened cocoa or strawberry extract with heavy cream and freeze it if i want icecream or drink it as it is. Somewhere I readed that food has to come from a farm not a factory I am not bashing LC diets , I am doing Atkins myself, and I feel a lot better, but has anyone read "The good life" and "living the good life" from Helen and Scott Nearing? her husband died with 100 years old and still was cutting wood logs with an ax days before, he got old with QUALITY Am I the only one? |
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A question about ingredients in LC proucts
Barlovento wrote in
: Hi to everyone. Everytime I go to the supermarket and pass in front of the LC section , I want to buy everything because the names are so apealing, when I start to check the carb content and then the ingredients I trow everything back, To many ingredients that I can't even pronounce. If I want the taste of chockolate or strawberry , I whip unsweetened cocoa or strawberry extract with heavy cream and freeze it if i want icecream or drink it as it is. Somewhere I readed that food has to come from a farm not a factory I am not bashing LC diets , I am doing Atkins myself, and I feel a lot better, but has anyone read "The good life" and "living the good life" from Helen and Scott Nearing? her husband died with 100 years old and still was cutting wood logs with an ax days before, he got old with QUALITY Am I the only one? The only one who what? Read the books? I doubt it, but no, I haven't read them. The only one who prefers to eat "real food" instead of chemicals? Certainly not. I try to avoid processed foods as much as possible, especially highly processed "low carb" or "low fat" crap. -- A. Brown remove the junk to email |
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A question about ingredients in LC proucts
Barlovento wrote in message . ..
"The good life" and "living the good life" from Helen and Scott Nearing? her husband died with 100 years old and still was cutting wood logs with an ax days before, he got old with QUALITY Yup. We're in the planning/practicing stages for our own good life now, which is not the Nearing's lifestyle as they were vegetarian. We're also not planning to build with stone in slipforms and aren't socialists. But the Nearing's are the "elders" of the homesteading movement and there's a lot of good info in their books. They were cool people, very idealistic, and managed to find practical ways to live their ideals. We moved to the country almost 2 years ago and started working from home as a halfway step to our eventual homestead. Started buying only whole foods and cooking from scratch, grinding grain for by hand. We've learned to build useful items from scrap. We've learned to can, dehydrate and root cellar. We've made cheese, bread and soap from scratch. We raise chickens and eggs and some veggies. This year, the plan is to start raising rabbits and *all* our own veggies. I agree that real food comes from a farm and not a factory; cooking from scratch pretty much takes care of the "fake food" issue entirely. The vast majority of the foods we buy are "one-ingredient" foods - meats, grains, veggies, beans, fruits, etc. (Hubby is not low-carbing, which is why we buy stuff like grain). But having said that, I buy aspartame and sucralose occasionally and the sucralose-containing DaVinci syrups. Not having much of a sweet tooth (my issues have to do with starch more than sugar - bread and pasta is my downfall rather than cake and pie and such), the amounts of these I use are pretty small. 99.9% of our food is real food. I expect to be on maintenance, and therefore 100% real food, before we actually move to our land. |
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A question about ingredients in LC proucts
jpatti,
I did most of the things you describe way back in my 20s. Unfortunately, eating only what we could grow and a lot of organic whole grain packed 30 lbs on my hitherto normal sized body very quickly. Eventually I realized I was designed to be a carnivore, stopped eating the brown rice, whole wheat, lentils, apples, starchy vegetables, etc, and dropped all the weight within a year. -- Jenny - Low Carbing for 4 years. At goal for weight. Type 2 diabetes, hba1c 5.2. Cut the carbs to respond to my email address! Low carb facts and figures, my weight-loss photos, tips, recipes, strategies for dealing with diabetes and more at http://www.geocities.com/jenny_the_bean/ Looking for help controlling your blood sugar? Visit http://www.alt-support-diabetes.org/...0Diagnosed.htm "jpatti" wrote in message om... Barlovento wrote in message . .. "The good life" and "living the good life" from Helen and Scott Nearing? her husband died with 100 years old and still was cutting wood logs with an ax days before, he got old with QUALITY Yup. We're in the planning/practicing stages for our own good life now, which is not the Nearing's lifestyle as they were vegetarian. We're also not planning to build with stone in slipforms and aren't socialists. But the Nearing's are the "elders" of the homesteading movement and there's a lot of good info in their books. They were cool people, very idealistic, and managed to find practical ways to live their ideals. We moved to the country almost 2 years ago and started working from home as a halfway step to our eventual homestead. Started buying only whole foods and cooking from scratch, grinding grain for by hand. We've learned to build useful items from scrap. We've learned to can, dehydrate and root cellar. We've made cheese, bread and soap from scratch. We raise chickens and eggs and some veggies. This year, the plan is to start raising rabbits and *all* our own veggies. I agree that real food comes from a farm and not a factory; cooking from scratch pretty much takes care of the "fake food" issue entirely. The vast majority of the foods we buy are "one-ingredient" foods - meats, grains, veggies, beans, fruits, etc. (Hubby is not low-carbing, which is why we buy stuff like grain). But having said that, I buy aspartame and sucralose occasionally and the sucralose-containing DaVinci syrups. Not having much of a sweet tooth (my issues have to do with starch more than sugar - bread and pasta is my downfall rather than cake and pie and such), the amounts of these I use are pretty small. 99.9% of our food is real food. I expect to be on maintenance, and therefore 100% real food, before we actually move to our land. |
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A question about ingredients in LC proucts
No you are not the only one.
Some of us started low carbing years ago when to eat low carb meant you had to eat nothing but real food and do a lot of cooking, too. We lost weight. Yes, but it was boring and much more difficult. "I view the influx of bogus "low carb" products full of chemicals and high-carb sugar alcohols with dismay. People are trying the diet and concluding that it doesn't work without ever, really, low carbing. But if you read messages here you'll find that most of the long-term low carbers who have made this a successful way of life do stick pretty closely to simple ingredients." I disagree. I'm a long timer and enjoy many of the low carb products in moderation. Wonderful products, like Hood LC milk, Breyer's LC ice cream, or low carb bread. It's a hell of a lot easier doing LC now than it was 25 years ago. What about people close to their goal or in maintenance? Are they to forever forsake these products? Or people who just want to reduce the huge amount of sugar they are eating. Isn't it better they have choose these LC products instead of eating the regular versions? Must everything be black and white, my way or the highway? OTOH, as far as living the long life goes, my dad ate like a hermit, my mom ate like a lady who loves to shop, he was thin and fit, she was plump and never did an exercise in her life. She's 88, he's 98 and they're both still alive and living on their own. My mom had a LOT more fun along the way. g |
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A question about ingredients in LC proucts
On 2 Mar 2004 06:18:53 -0800, Chet Hayes wrote:
No you are not the only one. Some of us started low carbing years ago when to eat low carb meant you had to eat nothing but real food and do a lot of cooking, too. We lost weight. Yes, but it was boring and much more difficult. "I view the influx of bogus "low carb" products full of chemicals and high-carb sugar alcohols with dismay. People are trying the diet and concluding that it doesn't work without ever, really, low carbing. But if you read messages here you'll find that most of the long-term low carbers who have made this a successful way of life do stick pretty closely to simple ingredients." I disagree. I'm a long timer and enjoy many of the low carb products in moderation. Wonderful products, like Hood LC milk, Breyer's LC ice cream, or low carb bread. It's a hell of a lot easier doing LC now than it was 25 years ago. What about people close to their goal or in maintenance? Are they to forever forsake these products? Or people who just want to reduce the huge amount of sugar they are eating. Isn't it better they have choose these LC products instead of eating the regular versions? Must everything be black and white, my way or the highway? [cut] That's true that these products aren't bad in moderation, but we get people here who are trying to eat them while on induction. That just isn't right -- you're not breaking your old habits if you're eating ice cream. Personally, I don't like milk, don't care if I ever eat bread again, but I do like ice cream. However, I can't buy Breyer's LC ice cream, as 1/2 C per serving is not very much ice cream for me. Ice cream is a downfall of mine. I do buy some pancake mix and fake syrup and don't mind eating this from time to time, but I can also eat this and feel no need to eat more, whereas I take a 1/2 Cup of ice cream and go, "That was it? You've got to be kidding!" -- Bob in CT Remove ".x" to reply |
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"Jenny" wrote in message ...
jpatti, I did most of the things you describe way back in my 20s. Unfortunately, eating only what we could grow and a lot of organic whole grain packed 30 lbs on my hitherto normal sized body very quickly. Eventually I realized I was designed to be a carnivore, stopped eating the brown rice, whole wheat, lentils, apples, starchy vegetables, etc, and dropped all the weight within a year. Ummm... why didn't you grow meat? Or hunt? We're growing chickens and eggs now, plan to add rabbits in a month or so - I've got the nest boxes built, but need to get off my ass and build the "coop". I'd like to do a dairy cow, and the annual beef calf as well, but it's not practical here where we are now. We only have around an acre, including the gardens, and are surrounded by a real beef operation with around 50 cattle. I can't see that we could keep a dairy cow in here even if there were enough land to support her, she'd be wanting to join the herd and they are fenced in with only a single-strand of electric (they get out semi-regularly as it is). I *want* a cow very badly. I like cows a lot, whereas I don't like the chickens much. They're pretty stupid and kinda nasty to each other. A calf raised from spring to fall and butchered young to save the work and feed of overwintering is going to provide on average more than 3 lbs beef per day for a year. Once we have the cow, we plan to do a couple pigs as well, as they can be raised largely on the extra milk plus pasture, just as the calf can be. That's a whole heck of a lot of meat, not even counting chickens and rabbits and hunting. But we won't be doing the cows and pigs until we get our homestead. The entire *point*, for us, is to never work corporate jobs again. Granted, we both still code for corporate customers now (from home), but won't be doing it then, as we won't have electricity for a few years once we get out there given that clearing land, putting in pastures, planting fruit and nut trees, building a home and a barn will all take priority over building a home power station. The low-carb bit is incidental to the plan, the primary plan is to never, ever deal with pointy-haired people's politics again. This means producing everything we can ourselves as cash will be rare. In figuring our future budget, I see our biggest expense will be coffee. I woke up several years ago, before I'd met hubby, to realize I worked a job I hated to support a life I hated - and started thinking about what I wanted for the future. This was it for me. Been planning for about 5 years now. Luckily, when I met and fell in love with Steve, he had similar dreams. We moved "halfway" there by moving to where we are now. We did it this way for a couple reasons, first being that we dreamt about this for years but didn't *know* we'd like living in the country, so only made a halfway commitment in case the reality didn't live up to the dreams. We live close enough to town that getting rid of the animals and getting regular jobs would be easy here. And we also figured learning to provide for ourselves was a lot safer while still being in easy distance to a grocery store - where we plan to buy land eventually, we will likely not be able to get out all winter. Doing this now also means we're saving tons of money - our land will be paid for with cash as soon as when we get it. We're sort of in school for our future life. For us, it's a quality of life issue, enjoying the company of animals and plants more than most people; building a chicken coop out of pallets with my husband is way more fun than going to meetings. Even now, only "halfway" there, and still shopping at least weekly since we don't have a home dairy yet, life is *majorly* improved over a few years ago. We spend less than a third than we did then and have *way* more in our lives than when we had more money. So far this year, I have only begun seeds for onions, savoy cabbage and butterhead lettuce. But our plans this year include storage cabbage, bok choy, peas, beans, paste tomatoes, Branywine tomatoes, several kidns of bell peppers, carrots, chard, mache, radichio, rutabagas, pumpkin, zucchini, summer squash, winter squash, potatoes, eggplant, sunflowers, shallots, leeks, corn, tetragonia, kale, mint and several herbs. We aren't doing fruit because we won't be here more than another year or two, except some cantalope. And we are not doing nuts here for the same reason, though we'll plant lots of trees on our land. Some of that is pretty high-carb food, corn, cantalope and potatoes not being induction food, but most of it is nice low-carb food. Manure is free for the hauling since we have the neighboring cow operation and hubby bartered labor for straw. So our raised beds were all free to build. We haven't started seed-saving yet, so I buy seed. I spent $120 on seed this year, for what will produce around half of our food for the year. More importantly, it will provide half of my lesiure time too - cause gardening is not "work" to me, I love it. I used to rush home from my corporate job to water the handful of tomatoes in my postage-stamp-sized backyard, full of purchased amendments that I hauled in - and had my morning coffee out there daily before heading in to the corporat job. Now my job is at my desk at home where I can walk out into the garden anytime throughout the day... my recreation is always there. OK, right now the garden isn't doing much, there's just the stuff in the cold frames out there. But there's seedlings all over my house and it warms the soul if not the body, to see green things growing in February. Winter is short now. I don't finish harvesting and putting things up until November. As soon as the holidays are over, the seed catalog arrive and I start planning for the next year. By February, I have seedlings all over the house, on grow shelves under lights, in windowsills. The yard may be full of snow, ice and the few semi-thawed areas full of mud, but it's growing in *here* and nothing feels like spring like watching seeds sprout. Grains take a lot of work to grow in small batches yourself as harvesting, drying, threshing and winnowing by hand is a ton of work. Corn is the only relatively easy grain. I don't foresee grains ever being a huge part of our diet as overindulging once we get out there would be a whole lot of work! They're not a big part of our diet now, pasta is not an "easy" food when you grind the grain by hand, mix it up with eggs, and hang it all over your kitchen to dry. I only bake bread a couple times a month for the family, and that is my biggest temptation just cause of how bread smells. But again, grinding the grain by hand (or by foot since hubby hooked up our grinder to a bicycle) is a lot of work even though we're not growing it yet... way harder than plopping down a few dollars at the store. When we moved here a couple years ago, I lost 45 lbs in the first 8 months and maintained that +/- 5 lbs for over a year until I started low-carbing Jan 1st. I think it was a combination of eating real food (thus rarely having snackage around) and a lot more physical work than I'd been used to. My "job" has involved sitting on my butt for the last couple decades, so even the small amount of physical work we do now was a big improvement. You'd be surprised how much work it is to do even little things, like whipping egg whites to peaks, by hand. Especially after a few decades in an office where typing was the most strenuous exercise. Hubby wasn't as bad as me, since he'd been a caver as his main hobby, but neither of us were in very good shape when we began. I didn't lose enough to control my blood sugar though. My blood sugar was really screwed up. We went hunting in a pile of snow in December and by the time we trudged to the place we were sitting, I was both starving and thirsty. I ate 4 tangerines, and on top of the already poor blood sugar, ended up in bed for several days with horrific cramps and severe nausea. So yeah, one can get one's self pretty ill from perfectly healthy natural foods (most wouldn't consider tangerines to be junk food). But... I am diabetic. Steve is not and is reaping only positives from eating real food regularly. I have to not only eat real food, but eat real low-carb food. Low-carbing on a homestead is pretty easy, really. Our hens laid 8 eggs yesterday. They continually provide way more than I want to eat, but not enough to sell really. So we are drowning in eggs here. I was joking with my husband yesterday that we could probably survive on eggs if we had to. And they're *fresh* with bright orange yolks like you don't ever see in a store! Tonight, I'm going to spice up a chicken and leave it marinating overnight for tomorrow - it was a live rooster last fall. It was raised in a fairly spacious coop with an attached run and allowed to free-range daily. It had a pretty decent life for a chicken before it went in the freezer. I have lots of jars of "low carb" spaghetti sauce on my shelf, low carb because they're made of tomatoes, bell peppers, garlic and some herbs. No sugar and no sugar-substitutes either - just cooked and cooked until sauce happenned. And it's organic too, though not "certified" as such - cause I know what I put on my veggies and hebrs when growing them. I have piles of snap peas in the freezer, my last homegrown veggies left from last year besides some onions in the attic and potatoes in the root cellar. I have jars of dehydrated celery and carrots for fast soups along with 2-liters of chicken broth in the freezer. I make a big batch of soup and can it up, there's a bunch of turkey soup on the shelves now. Hubby or the daughter(s) add rice or noodles when they heat a jar, I just eat it as is. There's fresh mache and carrots in the cold frames planted last November and a couple tomato and pepper plants in pots producing sporadically on my windowsills (an experiment to see if I could keep fresh "summer" veggies overwinter). Doing low-carb here isn't difficult really. I'm not doing an induction-level kind of thing, more like 30-50 grams of carb per day, but losing well with that... 11 lbs in Jan, another 5 in Feb. More importantly, my blood sugar is under control and I am not sick! The only real expense as far as food over a few months ago is that I am spending more on dairy, which won't apply when we get out there as we'll have more than we can use, like the eggs now. I can't grow DaVinci syrups though. So while I'm indulging in them temporarily now, I don't see them as part of my long-term maintenance. We've both already largely lost our taste for sweets and what remains will be satisfied with an occasional indulgence in homegrown maple syrup in the long run. I joined the Y because... the amount of work we'll be doing a year from now is way more intense than now. Clearing land, fencing pastures, logging, digging foundations and hauling the rocks for them, building a house, barn and outbuildings - this is a heck of a lot more work than grinding grain, gardening or whipping egg whites or heavy cream by hand. There's no way to practice clearing land when the land is already cleared, or practice building a house when you're already in one; so the Y is important to me since there will be insane amounts of physical work in my near future and I have to build the body to get there. The long-term plan is around 100 gram of carb per day for all of us - I have planned our food-production with that number in mind. Granted, I don't know where I'll actually settle on maintenance, as my blood sugar will be the barometer of what I will eat, 100 grams is just a planning number when trying to figure out how much of what to grow. But I don't forsee a high-carb lifestyle at any point in the future, grains being too difficult to grow and harvest in large amounts and maple syrup requiring nearly the calories to produce as are in it. And we will have a major surplus of meat, dairy and eggs, so I don't see how we *could* eat anything but a fairly low-carb diet. This is *very* different in terms of diet from what the Nearings did, as they were vegetarian and ate grain as a staple. They had ethical issues with having animals, even as pets, that I don't have. Still, there is a lot of good info to be gleaned from their books, even if a healthy diabetic diet is not part of that. And they seemed like really cool people, the sort it would be great to sit down and have long talks with. I suspect a high-carb diet worked for them because they were not insulin-resistance to being with and their lifestyle involved buring thousands of calories per day every day. All that emphasis on whole grains and legumes probably works just fine for non-diabetics who do hard physical work regularly. But I shall stick with my meat, eggs and dairy. |
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