Family Nutrition 101
This is a link to an article I read last night on nutrition that is just excellent. It covers a lot of factual material, but in a "reader-friendly" form. It's very basic information, but important if you haven't studied nutrition much.
We have cut out all of the hydrogenated or partially-hydrogenated fats from our diets. This wasn't too hard. You just have to watch food labels carefully. No more Tyson Chicken Nuggets for lunch. No marger-een, only butter. Of course, who knows what you're getting when you eat out. We love the tortillas at Don Pablos, but suspect that they may contain shortening. Hope not!
We've also done well on the sugar department, although we're not 100% sugar-free. We came home from a Christmas party the other night loaded with Hershey's Kisses and other chocolates. They've been sitting on our kitchen countertop since Monday now (3 days), and so far I have had a total of 6.
I'm not cooking totally with whole wheat flour or whole wheat pastry flour right now. I have done a few more things with a higher amount of whole wheat flour than before, but we could use some improvement in this area. Also, my husband prefers Japanese rice (which is white), so we eat that rather than brown rice.
A little at a time! It's a constant process, I suppose. Probably there is no one who feels they have "arrived" at completely nutritionally-sound cookery. And I'm sure there are probably people who think we're crazy! But just remember that it's not just aimless, arbitrary RULES for people who tend towards legalism. There is a valid purpose to all this. See the article I linked above. The author put it so well!
We have cut out all of the hydrogenated or partially-hydrogenated fats from our diets. This wasn't too hard. You just have to watch food labels carefully. No more Tyson Chicken Nuggets for lunch. No marger-een, only butter. Of course, who knows what you're getting when you eat out. We love the tortillas at Don Pablos, but suspect that they may contain shortening. Hope not!
We've also done well on the sugar department, although we're not 100% sugar-free. We came home from a Christmas party the other night loaded with Hershey's Kisses and other chocolates. They've been sitting on our kitchen countertop since Monday now (3 days), and so far I have had a total of 6.
I'm not cooking totally with whole wheat flour or whole wheat pastry flour right now. I have done a few more things with a higher amount of whole wheat flour than before, but we could use some improvement in this area. Also, my husband prefers Japanese rice (which is white), so we eat that rather than brown rice.
A little at a time! It's a constant process, I suppose. Probably there is no one who feels they have "arrived" at completely nutritionally-sound cookery. And I'm sure there are probably people who think we're crazy! But just remember that it's not just aimless, arbitrary RULES for people who tend towards legalism. There is a valid purpose to all this. See the article I linked above. The author put it so well!
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