Food Query
Feb. 21st, 2013 01:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
helwenSo, if you don't have much money and you want to get animal proteins that are non-GMO/GE and no sodium-nitrites, what's available besides eggs and tuna? Thoughts?
And on veggie equivalent, I'm aware of combining beans w/ rice or corn but I don't digest beans well.
And on veggie equivalent, I'm aware of combining beans w/ rice or corn but I don't digest beans well.
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poultry?
Date: 2013-02-21 06:28 pm (UTC)If that may work for you let me know; I'm planning to head for Sturbridge this Saturday and perhaps can meet you with 2 of those birds :-D
Re: poultry?
Date: 2013-02-21 07:43 pm (UTC)OK
Date: 2013-02-21 07:52 pm (UTC)BTW, with beans if you use the boil/soak method and add some baking soda to the water (teaspoon or so) that helps break them down. Also, if they are boiled for 10 minutes or so *after* they are softened for cooking, most of the toxins that cause upset are cooked out.
Re: OK
Date: 2013-02-21 08:04 pm (UTC)Re: OK
Date: 2013-02-21 08:29 pm (UTC)Re: OK
Date: 2013-02-22 04:00 am (UTC)(The way we cook beans so I can digest them is to soak for a full 24 hours, drain, rinse, and then cook in fresh water with a large chopped onion added in. They're more digestible for me if cooked in the crockpot for 5 to 9 hours than if cooked stovetop, too; the long slow cooking seems to help, in addition to the other tricks.)
Re: OK
Date: 2013-02-22 04:02 am (UTC)Re: OK
Date: 2013-02-22 05:00 am (UTC)Interesting about the different types of salt, too. Well, different types of sugar work in different ways too, so why not salt?
Re: OK
Date: 2013-02-22 08:12 pm (UTC)We recently went back to cooking with honey instead of sugar, and I've been reminded of how very differently my body processes honey than it does granulated sugar, even turbinado and other relatively natural sugars. My body also processes different types of salt very differently. The parallel may well hold outside of my own personal ecosystem, at least to some degree.
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Date: 2013-02-21 07:42 pm (UTC)There are other veggie equivalents that don't involve beans, soy derivatives, or gluten, but I would need time to find them and right now I'm in a hurry. Will see what I can rustle up later on.
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Date: 2013-02-21 07:51 pm (UTC)I'm stressed out at the moment because the mortgage company recalculated our mortgage payments with a 72% increase... We emailed the letter to our guy who worked with us to put a package together originally, and he is going to find out what's going on. We understand that the original figures were estimates, but being off by 72% is just ridiculous.
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Date: 2013-02-22 04:05 am (UTC)I did some checking and the way to avoid beans is to combine various grains, but the gluten free grains involved (millet, quinoa, teff, amaranth) aren't that much cheaper than meat, per pound... at least not given the prices of meat and GF whole grains here. Some of them are more expensive than meat. So never mind that option.
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Date: 2013-02-22 08:10 pm (UTC)Wild foods are good. We've been investigating what grows around here: purslane, lambs' quarters, chickweed. Some of it has too much oxalic acid for me, but some is safe and we're looking into what we can grow in our yard so we know it's clean enough to eat. (The local wild deer population is afflicted with E coli. Field greens or other uncooked wild vegetables aren't safe around here anyplace deer have pooped and infected the soil.)
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