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[Day_Tripper]

Sorry I haven't been around lately.  I've been spending time at my boyfriend's place trying to fight the slugs from the garden I started there.  He doesn't have internet there.  I've decided I'm going to start throwing the slugs to the frogs rather than salt them.  That way they have a fighting chance to escape.

Mael, its the sugar that makes us fat.  So, juicing just fruit is a lot of sugar.  Dr. Mercola has great information about this.  I've found homemade juice to be quite filling.  Often I make more than I can drink.

Also, if you're working with beans and grains, you may consider sprouting them before you use them in soups or breads.  Its supposed to add more nutrients after sprouting.  Its time consuming, but after sprouting a few you could add them to your garden.

[mael]

I will drink that 'juice' that you buy from the s/market which comes in cartons if there was nothing else going.   I reckon the stuff in packs is crud.

The veggie juice is going well.  Ill throw in some small token piece of fruit if I want to take the edge off a bitter mix of greens.

I don't throw the shredded and pulverised stuff that comes out of my juicer.  I put it in a 'compost-maker,' which turns the mush into plant food.  The volume of the organic matter is reduced by some 90%, and I've got a few small boxes of the stuff.  It'll get dug into my garden - when I get round to making that major step and getting one going.

Yeah!  Veggie juice is the way to go.  It's that fructose in fruit, and yes, you're right - Mercola has a lot of knowledge on fructose.  Actually it was Mercola who wrote 'fructose is fructose- it doesn't matter where it comes from, it'll make you fat" - or some similar verbiage.

In my case it was more of me burying my head in the sand and ignoring what I knew was the right thing to do.  -  So out went the canned-drinks from the machine, the mayonaise, the slabs of butter etc... . 


I've lost 5 kg in two weeks  That's about 12 pounds.  And the best bit is I've lost my developing gut - well nearly.  These days my wife is interested in my juices and my soups ...  and the kids seem to like them as well!!! -  the soups, that is ....  It'd be problematic to get them to drink some of the veggie juices I concoct.

Did I tell you?  I went foraging for dandelions and made tea from the leaves and coffee from the roots -  And today I ate my second attempt at millet bread.

And in addition to this I've started using my rowing machine again!  How long can this last?

It's good that I can now wear my shirts tucked inside my trousers -  I used to prefer to let my shirt hang out to hide my stomach.

I feel great!  

[mael]

The bean sprouts are definitely in the pipeline.  I checked them out on the 'NET and was sufficiently impressed to make sure they were in my diet.

I know I need to score a few containers and then I'll try my hand at sprouting beans.

I made my second batch of dandelion 'coffee' today, and it is much better than my first effort.

I would like someone here to walk me through the aisles in the s/market where the traditional Japanese foods are.  I'm sure there's a lot of good stuff there.

[Day_Tripper]

This is what I buy now,
less mess to clean up.
Minute Maid %100 juice
Omega-3/DHA
Help Nourish Your Brain
Pomegranate/Blueberry

and if D_T wants to debate
that.....
Bring a whip,
cause I'm more than willing....

 

I'm not going to debate the juice you buy.  Pomegranate juice is supposed to be very healthy.

However, there is something to be said for freshly made juice.  When you make your own juice and drink it soon after, it has more nutrition in it.  Oxygen degrades some of the nutrients, so store bought juice doesn't have the nutritional punch that homemade juice has.

Mael, have you tried dandelion fritters yet?  They're just like mini pancakes.  Take the flowers, wash them and make a batter of 1 cup milk or buttermilk, 1 cup flour, and one egg.  Dip the flowers in the batter and fry them like pancakes.  Throw a little butter on them and real maple syrup or homemade jam...they're yummy.   I want to learn how to make dandelion wine.

Also, nettle soup/tea is surprisingly good.  It may be late in the season to pick them.  You want to pick them before they flower and only pick the top 5 or so inches.  They have almost a cucumber flavor to them.  If you cook them in water for 5 minutes it gets rid of the stingy part of the nettles.  You can even eat cattails.  Get the roots and boil them like potatoes.  I haven't tried those yet, but I've also read you can use them for flour as well.

If you check out some of the raw food enthusiast websites there is a lot of information about sprouting beans and grains.  Then they make breads out of them using a dehydrator.

You may also have fun fermenting food.  It's really good for your immune system by getting the good bacteria into your gut.  I made some really really good pickled herring by fermenting it with yogurt bacteria.  You can use any fish and just about any veggie.  Come to think about it, isn't there a lot of Japanese food that is pickled/fermented with salt and such?  It's kinda fun.  When I made ginger-ale using fermentation, half of it exploded all over the kitchen when I opened the bottle.  Oh well, it still tasted good.

Here are a couple of sites you may already know about, or you may not.  Both have information about fermenting food.:

http://wildfermentation.com/

http://www.westonaprice.org/