Oh, I'm boring. I don't drink (any more) AND I'm a vegan.
Did you ever notice the hand crawling away at the end of that emoticon? ::shudder::
I hadn't noticed, actually, and now I join you in the ::shudder::.
Did you ever notice the hand crawling away at the end of that emoticon? ::shudder::
What are pernik cupcakes?Thinking of bringing some of my pernik cupcakes back as pressies to my Scottish pals.
What are pernik cupcakes?
I don't want to meet my meat! I don't eat it anyway. As I explain to people on rare occasion when they ask, my vegetarianism didn't begin for ethical reasons, but they don't hurt either.The trick is to do it for ethical (not dietary) reasons. Watch the Meet Your Meat videos,
Yes, I really don't want to eat bugs in my strawberry yogurt! Who thought carmine was a good idea?Oh, and look at the labels for candy. Carmine is ground-up insects. Gelatin is ground-up cow's bones. Didn't take me long, once I started thinking about those things for real, to stop craving any of it.
But I ate a peanut butter cup this morning! and there are brownies. Not in my line of sight, however, so I shall just exit my office in the "away" direction today. It's too bad there's no carmine in brownies. I wouldn't want to eat bug brownies.ETA2: BTW, Namatu, I know you're one of the healthiest eaters I know. I just like to talk about this stuff.
I recently started to bake my own bread. The reason for this is a packet of bread rolls I purchased at a supermarket. I went on holiday a day of two after getting them and forgot about them. The best before date on them is August 11 - they are still soft and there is no sign of mould. I shudder to think about the preservatives in the bread that has kept it going so long.
I recently started to bake my own bread. The reason for this is a packet of bread rolls I purchased at a supermarket. I went on holiday a day of two after getting them and forgot about them. The best before date on them is August 11 - they are still soft and there is no sign of mould. I shudder to think about the preservatives in the bread that has kept it going so long.
Curiously, a grocery store near me has some pre-made, put-in-the-oven-to-bake bread rolls. The ingredients include parabens. Now, parabens are in a lot of things, but I have never seen them in food before. I'm not eating that.I shudder to think about the preservatives in the bread that has kept it going so long.
It is the making of proper food! Far fewer calories, no preservatives, no artificial flavoring...I started baking here for economic reasons rather than health. I really grudge paying for pastries or cakes or whatever now when I can make a batch for a few crowns worth of ingredients, and I can make them how I want them.
Weirdly, I think I have actually lost weight since coming to CZR, and I put it down to making proper food now, rather than eating takeaway or supermarket meals.
It is the making of proper food! Far fewer calories, no preservatives, no artificial flavoring...
It's interesting to read labels. I needed to buy some bread crumbs for a recipe. I had no bread so couldn't make them myself. The little container with bread crumbs in them had such a long list of ingredients, with long and interesting words. The container for panko bread crumbs had four ingredients, all of which I could identify and pronounce. I bought that one.
Sugar that contains more than sugar is suspect. Why mess with a good thing? (I'm looking at you, margarine.)It's amazing how weird ingredients are, even something like sugar, where you'd think the packet would contain just sugar.
(although I did laugh at the ingredients on a Marks & Spencer bag of peanuts, which had as a warning at the end 'May contain traces of nuts'). May contain? So there's a chance it doesn't?
(although I did laugh at the ingredients on a Marks & Spencer bag of peanuts, which had as a warning at the end 'May contain traces of nuts'). May contain? So there's a chance it doesn't?
But they are a bean? Excellent. All those peanut butter cups today were good for me!A good chance, because as we all know peanuts grow underground and hence are a legume. Technically, they're a bean.
ETA: Upon re-reading that statement, the fact that peanuts grow underground isn't what makes them a bean.
But they are a bean? Excellent. All those peanut butter cups today were good for me!
Gail, I agree that it's better to make your own cookies than buy the ones in the store. I have some addictive cookie recipes. Oatmeal cranberry, spelt chocolate chip, pumpkin chocolate chip...
And please don't waste my time on the refined sugar versus "natural" sugar nonsense. Eating too much sugar in any form is going to make you fat.
Not feeling so good today though. It's probably sympathetic with HJ but my throat is swollen like anything this morning.