Like your life depended on it — because it does.
Category: Food
Hilary’s World’s Best Veggie Burger
It may be.
Fruit
I think my enjoyment and pleasure in eating fruit stems from a mild deprivation from my childhood. For some reason, we never seemed to have much variety in my home when I was a child. Oranges, bananas, and apples and that was about it. So now, all the other types of fruit available seem to me a kind of pleasant luxury that I can partake in, even though these other types are actually quite ordinary. Such is one of the gentle ironies in my life.
The thing about fruit is that, while it is comparatively high in sugar, it is also high in fiber, which mitigates the sugar issue to an extent. So a moderate amount of fruit in one’s diet, if one is a typical, non-diabetic individual, is excellent despite the high sugar content.
Whole Foods
Having fun exploring the newly opened Whole Foods store in my town. Yesterday, discovered Cauliflower Gluten Free Gnocchi. They describe it as “rustic Italian style gnocchi made with cauliflower puree, potato and rice flour”. Also picked up their 365 Organic Tomato Sauce as well as their 365 Organic Tomato Paste. Seems that every time I go into this store there are discoveries.
Carbs Not The Devil
What the anti-carb folks don’t understand is that there is a vast difference between simple carbs and complex carbs high in fiber. You want to avoid all the simple carbs like the plague, like they do. But the complex carbs with fiber are actually the best type of food on the planet. You want to eat more, not less, complex carbs.
New Type of Nut Bar
I’m seeing a new type of nut bar where the producer, instead of using refined sugar, is using dates for the sweetener. Basically, the nuts are encased in dates as the wrapper.
Check out the products from Thunderbird and myAir.
Scruptious
If you want to treat yourself to the most delectable dessert, try the Mitica Date Walnut Cake. Got mine at Whole Foods. Probably the most delicious food I’ve ever eaten. Major dopamine rush. (So beware this could turn into a major addiction.)
Mitica also has a fig-oriented cake if you prefer figs to dates.
Nutritious Vegan Meals
Nutritious vegan meals already prepared.
Another Meat Substitute
Seitan.
Yogurt Adds
Silk Unsweet Almond Milk Yogurt with Vanilla. Add oat bran for the fiber, which will feed the bacteria, and take it with a probiotic pill as well. Boost for the gut bacteria. Stop using yogurts that have added sugar. They have so much sugar they are candy.
