Organic and all natural food!!!

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I just wanted to share with everyone my experience. My son Benjamin has been very focused on food for years due to his being an avid high school and NCAA wrestler. He always knew how much protein and carbs and fiber etc he needed and I of course helped him in this. He always had some allergies, but started having severe allergies and also hypoglycemia about two years ago. So as always, after the prescriptions and nutritionists and blood tests did not help, he started really researching food. We eat almost all organic foods and if they can't be found or are to expensive we eat all natural. We have cut out meats and milk with growth hormones or antibiotics in them and have stopped eating anything with corn syrup (the high sugar content throws off his insulin production). Now I'm a nurse so I have taken nutrition courses and am trained to do diabetic teaching etc. but his research taught me more than I ever learned in college or in the field. I will say shopping is tough and sometimes I have to substitute only because I just can't find what I need. The amazing thing is that he rarely if ever gets hypoglycemic even after strenuous workouts and his allergies are pretty much so gone. Dry air bothers him still because he does have some asthma at times, but he used to cough all day and all night and now he doesn't. I know I feel better and, but when I occasionally slip I feel terrible afterwards. I am so greatful to God for his enlightening us on this topic, because at one time I was afraid my son would faint and die from his low blood sugar. So I encourage everyone to really think about what they eat. They tested my son for every type of environmental allergen, but what must have been bothering him more was the chemicals etc in foods and I was very careful before, no red dyes and all that, but not careful enough. He was on, at one time, medicines that my patients with COPD took and now he uses nothing!!!! So he is well, by treating his body as a temple and by having a wonderful spirit in his heart. Again I thank God for this blessing and wanted to share with you all!!!

1 Corinthians
6:19 What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?

6:20 For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.

Jen M

 

[CecilW]

i WOULD see that you'd posted this 5 mionutes after completing watching a movie at
http://www.amazon.com/Fat-Sick-Nearly-D ... 958&sr=1-1
about a coupla a guys who went on juice fasts for 60 days, and went from sick to healthy!

Which, apparently, is what I need to do...

Aaaaaargh!

 

[Anonymous]

about a coupla a guys who went on juice fasts for 60 days, and went from sick to healthy!

Which, apparently, is what I need to do...

Being a diabetic myself, I have been told to avoid fruit juice unless my blood sugar drops too low...and then I was told not to go over 4 to 6 oz. ...... Fruit juice is a very concentrated form of natural sugar and it will most likely cause a blood glucose spike for someone with diabetes.

 

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No, I didn't watch a movie at all and I agree fruit juice is way too high in sugar for most people especially if it has addition sugars put in and especially when diabetic. That is why no corn syrup for Ben...it is too concentrated a sugar and spikes his sugar which then increases his insulin too fast and too high and then he drops down to having not enough sugar. He was passing out and not even telling me or his coaches. He now eats all whole grain bread, no concentrated sugars, we even get the Barrilla Plus pasta because it has complex carbs and lots of protein because it has legumes in it as well. I will tell you from experience those fad diets are usually so bad for you. Balanced meals are much better even for weight loss...keeps the metabolism going. Now my RN has just kicked in...you should hear me with my patients...don't get me going on diets for heart patients. lol

Jen M.

 

[Taller on my knees]

My friend who lives with us has a two page list of food allergies. I love to cook and was able to find ways to recreate most of his favorite foods. No tomatoes, soy, beef, pork, lettuce and many more. I have now created soyless soy sauce and tomatoless marinara.

 

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Wow that is great....how did you do that???

 

[Taller on my knees]

For the Soy Sauce, I altered a recipe I found on Celiac.org. It was as follows:

2 cups beef broth - Since he can't have the beef, I used chicken stock
2 tsp cider vinegar - For a more robust flavor, I used Basalmic
1 tsp molasses - I doubled this
1/8 tsp ground ginger - i used a few coins of freshly sliced ginger
dash of pepper/onion powder/garlic powder - I boiled a half onion, whole peppercorns and three cloves of garlic instead

Combine all in saucepan. Boil until reduced to 1/2 cup. Store in fridge.

The flavor still wasn't quite right so I added either fish sauce or oyster sauce....I can't quite remember. Obviously, I had to strain it before serving. Next time, I plan to add some dried mushrooms to the mix to get it just about right. This was close, but not exact.

For the Marinara I sliced a small eggplant, two onions and a medium zucchini, coated with olive oil, cracked pepper and chopped garlic and then roasted it. I then put it in the food processor with a large jar of roasted red peppers (packing juice included), a few leaves of fresh basil and hit puree. Simmer the mixture while spicing it to your normal tastes. The eggplant helps give it the tomato "tang" that the red peppers lack. The flavor is very close but still has a slight aftertaste if it's served directly over noddles. When it's baked, as in lasagna or ziti, the taste is indistinguishable.

 

[lights12]

For the Soy Sauce, I altered a recipe I found on Celiac.org. It was as follows:

2 cups beef broth - Since he can't have the beef, I used chicken stock
2 tsp cider vinegar - For a more robust flavor, I used Basalmic
1 tsp molasses - I doubled this
1/8 tsp ground ginger - i used a few coins of freshly sliced ginger
dash of pepper/onion powder/garlic powder - I boiled a half onion, whole peppercorns and three cloves of garlic instead

Combine all in saucepan. Boil until reduced to 1/2 cup. Store in fridge.

The flavor still wasn't quite right so I added either fish sauce or oyster sauce....I can't quite remember. Obviously, I had to strain it before serving. Next time, I plan to add some dried mushrooms to the mix to get it just about right. This was close, but not exact.

For the Marinara I sliced a small eggplant, two onions and a medium zucchini, coated with olive oil, cracked pepper and chopped garlic and then roasted it. I then put it in the food processor with a large jar of roasted red peppers (packing juice included), a few leaves of fresh basil and hit puree. Simmer the mixture while spicing it to your normal tastes. The eggplant helps give it the tomato "tang" that the red peppers lack. The flavor is very close but still has a slight aftertaste if it's served directly over noddles. When it's baked, as in lasagna or ziti, the taste is indistinguishable.

Wow nicely done!!!

 

[CecilW]

Being a diabetic myself, I have been told to avoid fruit juice unless my blood sugar drops too low...and then I was told not to go over 4 to 6 oz. ...... Fruit juice is a very concentrated form of natural sugar and it will most likely cause a blood glucose spike for someone with diabetes.

True, but not the whole story ...

If you notice in the movie, he's always juicing a bit of fruit with a bunch of GREENS. That seems to be a key element. Also, I would apply the juicing principle to myself (and the diabetic circumstances) just a bit differently. The movie had them juicing strictly via pulp removal. My admittedly limited experience is that it works best for me to combine that with the blender style of juicing, eg. Vitamix.

Carrots would be "juiced". So might PART of the greens, if I was using a whole bunch. Beets, peppers, etc. But the apple, and banana would be blended. So would most of the greens. And cucumber. Ya gotta find a balance between fiber for its scrubbing and blood-sugar-uptake-slowing effects, and getting the most vegetables and their nutrition possible through you.

I've added juices this way without trashing myself. Some carrot juice and almond or coconut milk in a super high speed blender, a banana, an apple, some protein powder, blackstrap molasses (super high in minerals), cinnamon, ground flax seed, wheatgrass powder, and as much kale as I can get into the blender. May have to add more water. Makes a great tasting and very energizing drink. And not too bad on the blood sugar.

 

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Wow lots of fiber with all that going in...Good for you!!! My best friend drinks something like that every morning. She loves it!!!

Jen M

 

[Jim]

Being a diabetic myself, I have been told to avoid fruit juice unless my blood sugar drops too low...and then I was told not to go over 4 to 6 oz. ...... Fruit juice is a very concentrated form of natural sugar and it will most likely cause a blood glucose spike for someone with diabetes.

I heard that the natural sugars don't spike the blood sugar as bad as the man created sweetners do. But i'm sure it's a good idea anyway to dilute and or limit all sugar though. Have you heard about pineapple, it contains high levels of an enzyme thats used by the pancreas for insulin production. My mom is diabitic so i've been doing some research.

 

[Diener]

I try to keep us organic, too. I try to get our meat from a local rancher near here. He is at the Farmer's Markets in Silverdale. Unfortunately, all he has is beef. When I go to the grocery store I buy "organic" and "natural" foods (but ya gotta read the labels to be sure they really are). Once you find such foods you build a repertoire of resources to cook from.

We aren't ALL organic, but I don't think Oreslag would stand for that!

 

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I try to keep us organic, too. I try to get our meat from a local rancher near here. He is at the Farmer's Markets in Silverdale. Unfortunately, all he has is beef. When I go to the grocery store I buy "organic" and "natural" foods (but ya gotta read the labels to be sure they really are). Once you find such foods you build a repetoire of resources to cook from.

We aren't ALL organic, but I don't think Oreslag would stand for that!

Absolutely, read labels because they will blatantly lie, which is sad. I mean we have cut out corn syrup too and do you know that regular bread crumbs have that and often preservatives...also the stuffing cubes... I am making my own for the holiday and I only use panko bread crumbs.

 

[Diener]

Yep, it is amazing how much corn we end up eating! When we lived in NH, we had a friend that had allergies to corn, wheat and something else I don't remember now. So when it was our turn to make dinner I had to make sure there wasn't any corn of any type in the food I prepared. Boy did I learn a lot that year!

Food, Inc is a great documentary to watch, too, though part of it is really, really sad. This is the website for it: http://www.foodincmovie.com/. You can watch it on Netflix if you have that.