by Morris » Wed Dec 17, 2014 11:54 am
nayasmom: I had been purchasing only the cane sugar (C&H) because I heard most of the beets grown are is gmo, plus I always got better results using the cane sugar vs. the beet sugar in my baking. But, I recently watched the Secrets of sugar and saw how they say they treat the people that work in the cane fields and now I am attempting to get cane sugar off my grocery list also.
Seriously, if we knew what went on to produce our food, would we keep buying it? However, what are our alternatives for some things? I am not sure if the video is accurate or not, but, seeing how everything is profit driven, I can only imagine that what was in the video has some ring of truth to it in some locations where the cane is grown but not all.
Besides, cane sugar is still the end-product of the whole food having all the good stuff removed from it and it should be something on my rarely to eat list.
I have issues with candy and cookies, in that when I open the package, I eat the whole thing package no matter what the size. I call it “open bag syndrome”. I feel compelled to eat everything in the package until it is gone. I am sure this is not a physical addiction because once that bag is empty, I no longer have that thought of “just one more” going on in my head.
When I eat better, i.e. more whole foods, I am more selective in what I buy so that gives me fewer choices whenever I get the urge the splurge. Unfortunately, I get that urge more than I would like and when I give in to the temptation, watch out! I think I have not fully committed to making the change complete but I am working on it. As it states in the preface of the Starch Solution, “ …this is not an all or nothing approach”, this keeps me from getting too discouraged that I cannot seem to get with the program at times. If I over eat something I would have been better off not eating in the first place, then I just tell myself I can make better choices for the next thing I eat.
Day 26: I am struggling. We had to go out of town and I did well with what I ate until we stopped at the World Market on the way home. Chocolate covered marzipan and chocolate covered wafer cookies called my name and I answered only because I cannot buy these items locally.
The plus side is that other than that, I ate well. We ate 2 meals out and at the first place, a Middle East type cuisine, I ordered the vegetable dish and asked the chef if he could steam the vegetables instead of stir frying in oil. He did, but I forgot about the hummus and it was topped with olive oil; of course, I ate it anyway because I love hummus. The second restaurant was a Thai place, I ordered a vegetable dish in a red curry sauce. The sauce was too oily so I removed the veggies from the bowl and topped my rice with them.
I experimented with my Instant Pot last night and made a pot of vegetable soup using whatever I had on hand (onion, celery, carrots, potatoes, peas, green beans, diced tomatoes). At the last minute, I threw in some red rice. I had no idea how long to cook it, so I chose 20 minutes. It turned out OK, meaning edible. My side was oven baked French fries; albeit, a bit too many. I really need to focus on stopping when satisfied not full, but I am not sure I know the difference yet. For me, full = satisfied.
Nancy (aka Morris)