This is very interesting - I can't say that I have ever heard of rapeseed oil though, but will definitely h ave a look into it. For a little while I thought someone was meaning grapeseed and it was just a typo, but I keep seeing it, so I guess not, huh? lol

I've been a label reader since 2007 when they said I have Diabetes - and I have to say it is shocking what we put in our bodies that we can't even say - I've more and more been into "if I can't say it, I shouldn't eat it" kind of thing. lol

No, it is not typo. :) It is probably the most common oil in here, although there is lot of olive oils too, at least shop shelf space-wise. Although we use mostly a bit different rapeseed specie, but I read that there is no English word for it, just latin name, so let's call it rapeseed. I read that they are almost identical anyways.

Just remember to buy it for human use, as there is not so edible versions from it, but I don't think you can go wrong when buying it from food store. :)

"With the shift to rapeseed 00 in the European Union, the low erucic acid content of the resulting rapeseed oil and its specific fatty acid composition make it a highly appreciated edible oil"

http://www.soyatech.com/rapeseed_facts.htm


And here is whole guide for rapeseed oil:

"Rapeseed oil - why it's a healthy choice

Rapeseed oil has a favourable balance of 'good' and 'bad' fats:

Less unhealthy saturated fat than all other cooking fats and oils - e.g. 50% less than olive oil

High in the healthy mono and polyunsaturated fats omega 3, 6 and 9

It is also a rich source of vitamin E, a natural antioxidant

And contains plant sterols - which may contribute to the cholesterol lowering properties of rapeseed oil
"

http://rapeseedoilbenefits.hgca.com/...eseed-oil.aspx

One key is whole foods as much as possible. Become an ardent label reader, but also take the time to understand what you're reading. Often things labeled as diet or lite tend to have chemical replacements that are worse than what they are substituting.

Go back to real butter, grass fed is better, if you can find it and afford it.

Coconut oil (cold pressed if you can get it) is your friend., We use it as much as possible, even as a mouth rinse. Don't be scared of the price of coconut oil. It may seem expensive, but a little bit goes a long way. We even use it in the home made babywipes we make for our youngest.

Lots of high fiber foods like beans and legumes. We always have some cooked beans on hand in the fridge. They are great for making home made dips, refried beans, chilis, soups, etc.

Start a little herb garden and grow your own fresh herbs. If you have the space, a little garden where you can grow your own produce.

Those who know me through Facebook and offline, you all know my wife is a very crunchy hippy woman. She researches endlessly and between her knowledge and mine (spent years as a sous chef before going into this business), we manage to eat healthy and are raising our two daughters together to eat healthy (and we still all enjoy the occasional trip to Taco Bell or McDonalds). My older children have also taken a page from our book and are eating healthy.

Make it a family thing and let your daughter help choose a menu and some recipes. Let her help shop for the ingredients. Teach her (and learn yourself) about healthy eating and what to look for on labels as well as in quality produce.

We have raised our kids to know how to cook for themselves so they don't just live on fast foods - they HAVE to learn this from as early as I can possibly get them interested and so far have had great luck with it. She is my youngest and she is a great cook - and she often helps and will be even more now - she is old enough to say what she likes and to try new things and is always open to that idea.

Coconut oil - I bought a jar of that recently - someone told me to use it to pop my popcorn but I REALLY think I did something bad wrong because it was the worst popcorn I've ever had or made. lol I either bought the wrong thing, mixed it wrong, used it wrong - something just went sideways on it hard. lol

We actually prefer to eat healthy as we can and we all love fresh over canned but sadly in my area, it is so hard and so expensive - they don't get up out of the box much and when they do, it is the single most expensive project you can imagine.

I tried to grow my own herb garden, more than a few times, and somehow I kill them, I think my green thumb was stolen by someone else - because I can't raise anything remotely resembling a plant for my lifes sake. lol

The rapeseed oil, I am looking into that for sure - thank you - we use a lot of olive oil, went back to real butter about a year or so ago when we realized how much water and nasty shit was in margarine. I have been doing my best to go as much more naturl as I can for a good while -

BUT

As you see why I started this thread, you guys have so much more valuable info than I could find on any search - I wanted people who actually eat this way and not just trying to sell me on something, I don't want to be sold on how to feed my daughter and end up with her in worse shape.

So I thank you!!

If it has a label you probably don't need to be eating it.

If popcorn came out bad when popped in coconut oil, then yeah you did something wrong or somehow bought the wrong thing. :)

Get extra virgin coconut oil and it will have a certified organic symbol on it. I use it for everything except in tomato based sauces and breads, where I continue to use olive oil. It is not typically on the cooking oil aisle... but in the natural foods aisle or section. Or on Amazon.com or elsewhere online. Nutiva is a good brand.

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Now THATS the fucking truth cut and dry!

I seem to recall goodgirl making popcorn with coconut oil not long ago and it was a definite #fail

Use just enough oil so it covers the bottom of a medium pan. Use only enough popcorn to cover the bottom of the pan in one layer. I've never heard of popcorn coming out less than stellar with coconut oil, except twice in this thread! wtf

I forgot to mention Salsa as an ingredient that will help increase vegetable consumption. I use it on burgers, certain fish, chicken, pork, roasts as a marinade/glaze, sandwiches, in recipes calling for crushed tomatoes, even put it in the occasional meatloaf instead of bread or other fillers. Great on Pasta with some sort of low fat meat for a meal or as a side salad for cook outs.

I made Tuna Wraps last night like I mentioned above.

Diced tomatoes and green pepper, shredded some lettuce, chopped onions, a little cheddar cheese, solid white albacore Tuna packed in water drained and broken up, a pinch of salt, black ground pepper, oregano, thyme, and a dash of garlic powder on a large burrito tortilla.

Had a few friends over that do not like veggies but they ate the wraps and were looking for more and the recipe afterwards.

I do not buy my vegetables from the supermarket. I only buy them from farmers markets, roadside stands, and my own homegrown veggies always taste so much better then the stuff they sell in stores.

Some of the best meals I have eaten were culinary experiments.

It is not what you prepare but what you prepare it with.

This
or use an air popper and melt the coconut oil on top...then toss the popcorn in the coconut oil with a little salt and pepper or even a little parm

You are dead nuts on the money about coconut oil. I grabbed a large container of it (1.7 litre, or 54 oz, virgin, cold-pressed) several months ago and hadn't tried it. Then a few weeks ago I had a fish fry and decided to crack it open and try it. I tell you that was some of the best fish I've ever eaten, and I've had a lot of fish in my day. That oil made it just that much better.

I wasn't even sure about it's smoke point, but it seemed to heat up hot enough just fine, so it must have a higher one than olive oil.

Damn healthy stuff though.


My girl Tam has herself a winning thread here. It might not be "business" exactly, but since a ton of us long-timers have worked from home for umpteen years and do a lot of sitting it is absolutely a relevant topic to everyone here. Without your health there IS no business.

Yeah I got it from a different isle, but I opted for the not extra virgin one - I think the one I got was Louann or something - but it wasn't the extra virgin kind. It started out me trying to make popcorn taste like movie popcorn and then I found out how healthy it was but what I got tastes terrible. lol

I'll be hitting the grocery store up tomorrow and we start a whole new diet and better eating - thanks to all of you here.

The wraps I think, are some of the first things we'll be going towards - my husband has been pushing those for awhile, I guess I'll take him up on it with her. lol

EXACTLY what I was thinking - I know I've seen hit and miss issues where some of you have had health issues and had to make drastic changes - and I knew no one would be better than my friends here.

SHE, as it happens, is in a similar business as far as the body and activity levels are like the rest of ours. She does Art/graphics work online and is taking up jobs, learning business and so on s0 she is in a similar situation as we are in that we sit and aren't as active as most humans - her business is online as well. lol

Very stupid question - this wonder item, coconut oil - it isn't even remotely supposed to have a coconut flavor, right?

I don't even know how to describe the flavor of the one I bought, but it was kind of like an oily wang flavor, maybe is the best way to say how it was... and d I mix it with anything to make the popcorn or just that? One place I found said t mix it with vegetable oil or whatever - maybe THAT is where it went bad wrong? lol

Be careful with oils... any oils. They're 100% fat so if you're trying to lose weight, you don't want to be indulging in a lot of oils.

I don't use a lot of oil - only fry food once in a blue moon - and am more careful than some about it. I am not supposed to have a lot of it either, so that was already on my list of things to watch out for. :thumbsup

Well, having never tasted oily wang, I dunno, haha.

There will be a MILD coconut flavor, and I even hesitate to refer to it that way because of the extremely mild character. It's enough that I choose olive oil for my pasta and pizza sauces that I make from scratch. Everything else though is coconut oil for me. I'm not in great health or good shape though, but when I was in the hospital in May the nutritionist / dietician was impressed with my lipid panel results.

One cool property is that even if you overheat it, it does not break down into bad components like other oils, ie: vegetable.

It's killer in cookies and cakes, not that you'll be making a lot of those, but I'm just saying. Great for eggs and other every day frying if you do that.

Hummus and raw vegetables. Also, stop eating meat or go fish only.

Luv me some hummus....but it does make me gassy :anon

Baked french fries/ Roasted potatoes. Theres a myth that white potatoes makes you fat because carbs turns into sugar and sugar turns into fat. Not true at all. When I ate 2 meals of potatoes a day the pounds fell off me at a rate of about 5-8 pounds a month with no exercise.

take regular white potatoes, slice them into french fries, sprinkle them with an even mix of onion powder, garlic powder, paprika, chili powder. No salt, powder only.
NO OIL. not even olive oil. oil makes you fat, dont believe that "olive oil is healthy", its just marketing to make sales. theres a lot of studies that even EVOO clogs your arties a few hours after eating it.

bake them till they are as crispy as you want, i like 450 for 30 minutes.
use regular catchup it has no fat or oil in it.
eat as much as you can and all the potatoes you want. the pounds will fall off.

fat makes you fat. Thats why asians who eat very little meat and oil are thin and people who eat lots of animals and oil and cream are fat.
Carbs from real food (potatoes, rice vegetables, fruits) make you thin.

All those things are extremely bad for me, potatoes aren't SO bad if they are younger, new, potatoes - less starch - less sugar for my Diabetes and her Dr said for her to eat as close to me as she can until we find out exactly what is going on - they do say she isn't a Diabetic though - so that is one good thing - just hope we aren't trading one thing for a worse thing here.

I have been roasting her carrots and potatoes with a roasted herb and garlic seasoning I found and it's filling her urges pretty well.

Simple advice anyone can follow: Do all your food shopping on the outside of the super market. All the crap in the center of the super market is processed food and it is horrible for you.


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That makes sense, I will be getting a different kind like what you said - the one I got, as is per my usual move lately - was the wrong thing, I think... because what I have it nasty, on a good day. lol

Oh god, I heard this was good for you - so I got a small thing of it, and oh wow, that was the nastiest thing I have ever had in my life - I'll pass on this one - but thanks - I know a shit ton of people love it, even most of my kids, but not me - blah. lol

Lean beef. Boiled pork. Roasted Chicken.

Get a rack where the drippings can leave the bird/beast behind.

Rice - you can make a roux or any rice flavoring with a tablespoon of oil and then stir it all up with your spices, meat, fish as you wish.

Things like scrambled eggs - with the right pan you don't need to grease it, just scrub more when you wash boohoo - I serve hot with cold sliced tomatoes on a bed of fresh, cold chopped lettuce ( I like hot/cold mixes ).

Instead of bread I use corn-based and baked things like tortillas for wraps or pick-up, plus you can always think ethiopian - injira bread and the meals it's used with are awesome.

That's off the top of my head. You can make chile with tofu-based ground "meat" and fill it with vegetables, beans and peppers, and if you want lots of tomatoes - depends on your preference.

Plus kids love nacho/tortilla chips...

So much more here to exchange... I read every post for a change lol and now I'm hungry!

:D

Something healthy I've recently gone crazy over is Sardines, I tried them once as a kid and thought them gross. Then a couple of months ago I gave them another chance and fell in love, I'm now eating 2-3 cans a week or more. According to what I read they are very good for you especially when soaked in olive oil, and it definitely satisfies my fish cravings at a much cheaper price. Some evenings when I am starving I can satisfy myself with a salad, a couple of pieces of fruit and a can of sardines and I'm nice and full.

I have to, which is a shock, I am typically in my "male" head and just read hits and misses - but I have read every single word and there is a ton of very valuable advice - including this you posted - thank you!! The bread thing I don't see she and I missing so much, neither of us are that much really into bread - the pasta thing she is going to have shits and fits over, I know I did - and no one will ever touch my potatoes. lol

My youngest son loves these things - he likes them in hot sauce and my husband used to eat them a lot, I think he likes them in some kind of mustard sauce - to me, they just smell nasty and look like greasy ass cat food. lol

I remembered one thing, not maybe exactly what you are looking for, but here it is.

I have been eating two kiwifruits in a day since I read about a study where the kiwi fruit eating part of the study fealt happier, their spirit was better, etc. (they ate the 2 fruits per day). In simple word, their mood was better. The reason is the effects of vitamin C, and kiwifruit is full of that.

Supplementary vitamin C is not exactly the same the stuff as the natural vitamin, so I have decided to eat kiwifruits, as those are healthier and healthy stuff anyways.

Try babaghanoush. It's prepared in a way similar to hummus but is made with eggplant rather than chickpeas.

Thank you, I will try that - I like egg plant, but apparently I don't like chickpeas and neither does my husband or daughter - they thought I was very mad at them to make them try that. lol

You actually have no idea what you are taking about. Fats are not the problem carbs are.

The problem is pricks like you who think they know everything and nobody else knows shit!

Fuck you and welcome to my ignore list you smartass douche :action-sm

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i stick to a few things in general

-oatmeal (not the instant kind) for breakfast with bran buds for extra fiber
-salad for lunch with yogurt and fresh fruit/vegtables

for supper
-limit your red meats
-don't eat pasta more than once a week and use whole wheat pasta and brown rice
-watch other carbs like potatoes and rice
-don't eat anything boxed or frozen (other than frozen vegtables)
-use olive or coconut oil for cooking instead of vegtable oil

just some basic rules i try and watch
also watch your sugar and sodium intake

He's actually 100% right. Healthy fats/Sterols (Cholesterol) are essential for healthy hormone levels in your body. :1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh

pretty easy man, i don't think people need to have someone tell them that they shouldn't eat onion rings and crisco..

Maybe some of the others in this thread would be the exception though.. some really horrible ideas in here.. vegan? seriously? why not just drown yourself? If that's what you choose to do and enjoy that's great, but that is about as extreme as it gets and not exactly a reasonable option in any sense of the word..

seconded

I just pointed out that you were wrong. Sorry if that upset you.

pretty much this

Tam, Luanns is pretty good actually.
I prefer Wilderness Family Naturals

my wife hates the taste of coconut but loves coconut oil. When I get the cold pressed, it tends to have a bit more flavor, so I use a pat of butter with it to temper down the coconut flavor.


Read: http://makecoconutnotfat.com/ (GFYers might recognize the guy behind the site ;-))

The ones in mustard are the best, and its funny you call it cat food because sometimes I will share a can with my cat. I just bought a can today that's soaked in hot sauce so I'm about to give it a try. I bought some cans off Ebay shipped from Portugal and they are the best I've had so far.

Ok, whew - that shit is SO expensive and I wasn't looking forward to taking it and tossing it in the bathroom for hand cream... lol

I put some other oil in with it, so it is very possible whatever I mixed with it is what messed it all up - I am going to try it soon and see, I'll let you know.

And as a matter of fact guys - SHE can't gve up all fats, it is very strongly advised against - it is just advised she stay away from WHOLE fats - drink lower fat milk and cheeses instead of the full fat - things like this, but not to stay away from ALL fats at all, that is very bad for her -- for ME, I have to stay away from the carbs, or at least watch them so very close. So while all of you are right, all of you are wrong too --- lmao

So there - :1orglaugh

Seriously though, I am taking in all of this and I do appreciate it so very much, you have helped me help my family, and me - and given me tips and ideas that I can get my head and hands around to get me and her on the right track... we're trying to find that happy medium that we are both happy with!