I just put on my first pot of garden fresh green beans that I picked from one of the two gardens I planted and nurtured this year. I can hardly wait to taste them. I've got yellow squash and zucchini running out my ears which I blanched and froze some of last night. Already have tomatoes and also cooked some fried green tomatoes. In a few days I should have okra as it is blooming big time. Yes God is good and he blessed me with the hard work I put in, the rain and sunshine he so gracefully sent down, and the goodness it will bring to my family. Eat fresh whenever you get the chance. Thanks rooftoptendie.
This sounds like my mother-in-laws 'ripe tomato catsup' recipe she used to make. She would never give me the recipe as she said I had to stand there and watch her make it because it wasn't precise. I never had the opportunity to be around when she did make it. She would can it in jars for the winter and it was a great relish for white beans and most other types of beans. My husband loved it; of course his mother made it. Thanks, I will try this and see what I come up with. I think I just hit the jackpot. Have a blessed day.
If u can't pull / shoot it out of the air, ground, water - it's not food. Labs don't make food. They make bioweapons. We are what we eat in most cases.
Nice post Rooftop.
READ THE INGREDIENTS OF EVERYTHING. U will find so many things added to " food " (especially processed ) that have 10 syllable words that you've never heard of. Research them and u will often find out they are some of the same components of products like cleaning solutions, plastics, etc.
Now ask yourself wtf is ANY of that doing in a supposed food ? It does not add to taste.
If u start buying things with less junk in them they will still taste good, if not better. So why so many additives ? Well it's to cause inflammation and make u sick.
Your body can handle a lot of junk when u are young, but after years of abuse that shit begins to take it's toll and problems arise. This by design because they want us slaving, but as soon as we near retirement we are no longer an asset, but a liability.
They want us sick as near to 65 as possible so we can steal our last bit of money just before we are killed off. They do not cure people, the only treat symptoms with surgeries, pills, chemo, etc.
For instance look at the rise of cancers, diabetes, kidney disease, etc. and how it parallels the rise in sugar in our food supply. It's not like u eat 1 of these toxins and get a disease. That would be easy to catch and kill u too quick.
However if u give it to your victim in small doses over time it's almost undetectable, especially when no one makes the connection or gets silenced & killed when they do.
There is more. If you research it you will find that the same companies that are involved in our food supply are also heavily involved in " healthcare ". They know there is a 100% guaranteed return on their investment, because they are the ones giving you their cocktails. You know what they do to children, do you rly put anything past them ? Glyphosate is 1 recent example.
In the healthy foods area u will find foods with all of these label icons like organic, non gmo, dairy free, gluten free, aluminum free, etc. It just goes to show you that they can provide non toxic products. If so why was all of this shit added to our foods or daily products in the first place ? Answered this above.
I could go on but I'll end rant here. Read your ingredients and grow your own food as much as possible. We literally have been under attack in every facet of our lives, for our whole lives. We are nothing but farm animals and lab rats to them. Waking up is much more than just politics.
It is quite frightening to discover what is really in your food. I went on Keto (heavily carnivore, which I can't recommend ENOUGH) and this is the biggest take away (off now since I like to follow Happy Wife, Happy Life montra). There are many foods I won't eat anymore, additionally to all the good info here about why you shouldn't eat all of these actually disgusting foods, there's another reason. They all support the current thing. LGBT, Ukraine, Anti-2A, Pro abortion, you name it, they (usually) support it.
When they say/mention "plant food" they arent really meaning from the ground. They are conditioning people to ignore that the food is coming from MANUFACTURING plants and are man-made lab projects. Notice how so many food products declare "Plant foods" on the packaging these days.
And now many, in very tiny print, have a "Contains a bioengineered food ingredient" disclaimer.
You forgot the biggest reason. It’s easy as fuck to stay lean and score good pussy if you only eat real food. If you tend to only get your food from the outside ring of the grocery store. Veggies, fruits, eggs and other proteins.
The caloric density of real food is low. So if you only eat real food, you don’t need to “diet.” No need to be hungry. You can eat until full and still cut weight.
No one ever got fat eating broccoli, grilled chicken and eggs. Ever.
When he started selling in grocery stores, it was literally real sauce from his Italian restaurant with a bag of dry noodles and a pack of grated parm. It was real food and people loved it
And people who have had it when it was original continue to talk it up. The same thing happens in the tool industry. The cycles are actually much faster there because blue collar workers don't put up with no bleep. They make high quality reasonable priced tools, then over time, quality goes down, they sell because of their namesake, the disparity between production cost and sale price increases, and maybe costs went up regardless, still, the losses would be greater if they continued making that same high quality product. Dewalt is a great example of this, they made really good tools, they sold out to China and became trash, I think they're still made in China, but back to a higher quality level.
I assume this must happen in many industries. Food and pharma are once to watch out for though. Your very life is at stake.
Been buying a half-cow every year to supplement my protein intake from a local farm/butcher and the quality of the meat and the flavor and texture are lightyears above what you'll find at any mid-tier or below restaurant.
Conversations with them about the quality of animals that get selected for fast food rapidly made me never want to eat fast food ever again.
And by breaking that out into one giant expense, my overall monthly bills at the grocer went down significantly, and my costs overall are lower (buying in bulk at once means that I am still on pre-inflation pricing until my next order.)
A bigass veggie garden as well is semi-annoying to care for, but also dramatically drops the cost of grocer visits.
As time goes on and I transition to also getting eggs/milk from farms direct instead of grocers I expect a dramatic decrease in my overall bills.
Got a new freezer in, going to order a pig in the future and stop getting bacon at the grocer as well. Good times will be had.
It took me about a half-decade of prepping before I was ready to do it. 2 chest freezers and one standup freezer, one each purchased on Black Friday to knock the price down. In my area the ding and dent places never seem to have them in stock or I would have gotten them there (lots of hunters these parts.)
One of the most frustrating facts of life is that it takes money to save money and it takes time to make money. Planning is essential for long term success.
Most excellent post. We need to look at ALL ways we have been enslaved, including through shitty food. There is so much more, too. The whole concept of "work" is designed to make us toil to make the globalists rich. Time for a big rethink.
Consider hurricane shelters in stadiums, people lose it so fast, they recommend a few days of supplies for each day you might be there. Apparently people randomly soil themselves out of fear, others eat to an extreme excess. Some get violent and injure those around them. F'ing animals. Sit down, chill out. Whatever is going to happen either will happen, or has already happened. This political era has even shown this. Some people go bonkers on things they have no control over. You have in reality 1 good option. Trust God. That then comes with multiple steps, not least of all, including action on your part.
I noticed that when I started making sauces from scratch. One I learned how simple it was, I never went back. Sauces, salad dressings, gravies, marinades all of it.
I grow as much of my own as I can and usually cook from scratch. If I do buy anything I read the small print carefully. Good diet is essential; those who take care look better than those who don't, and last longer and don't need big pharma to keep going.
We recently started buying grass fed/grass finished beef. The difference in taste, fat, food waste from gristle and tenderness is huge. For example stew beef cooks quicker and is tender. Cube steaks which usually from the grocery store are tough are tender and flavorful. Chicken from our farmer is very tender and moist. We haven’t receiver our pork share yet, that comes in August. Milk has a different taste, but only lasts about 10 days before it spoils, can’t say that about store milk. So obviously the ultra pasteurization and preservatives keep store milk unspoiled longer. Everything in stores is loaded with sodium too.
Thank you for that information. We have found it is about 10 days and then the milk smells “spoiled”. Of course, we have been tossing it. It was good information to have. It should have been obvious about storing milk on the bottom shelf of the refrigerator, but we never thought about it! DUH! We are going to give all the suggestions in the articles a try.
My only add here is that we have a small breed dairy cow. Raw milk is amazing, as are all the things I'm slowly traipsing into: raw butter, raw cheese, etc. Pair that with the duck eggs we raise, and we have some amazing ice cream. I like being in control of what's going in our bodies, but I need to take it a step further.
and while you are at it, trash your microwave that removes all nutrients from your food, use a steamer pot instead to warm up food, only takes a few minutes
Even just the act of whipping a raw egg too forcefully can destroy some of those amino acids, because some amino acids are more 'delicate' than others.
I've seen something similar somewhere else and still find it hard to believe. The forces which bind atoms in a molecule don't seem like they'd be easily broken by mixing, at any level.
While I'm not that familiar with this stuff, common sense makes me think the bends in a molecule is not going to impact its usefulness. Do you know of any studies which show the usefulness of the molecules are reduced when they become more straight?
Asking if you know of any studies about the usefulness of these molecules if they are straightened out is not even a question to ask?!!! Sure it is. If you have more knowledge on this subject than me and have links to studies you can share you can either decide to share them or not. Common sense is certainly not something to throw out the window. I'll stick by my common sense belief that hand mixing, or even mixing with a blender or food processor, molecules will in no way change them. However, I will also do some searching on the subject.
The ferocity of mixing amino acids may reduce their benefits is a huge topic? The same as studies on the brain? Again my common sense tells me that's not the case.
Ok, spent a few minutes searching. What I gather from the results is that the nutritional value is not reduced at all by whipping the eggs, which is the question I was looking for the answer to.
I prefer avocado oil with eggs. I can’t taste the oil. Avocados are an excellent fat.
I have used butter for eggs & find it burns. I believe choosing an oil has a lot to do with your nutrition goals.
Trying to loose weight, belly fat: Avocado & coconut oils.
Can’t go wrong with Olive oil for general health. Just make sure you are getting the real undiluted olive oil. Most olive brands are mixed oils. Look at the people that live along the Mediterranean coast. They have excellent heart health and use olive oil.
I normally use olive oil when I’m cooking pasta, Italian and chicken. When I want to taste the oil.
There’s lots of research available. Brave has been a good place to search weeding out government, pharma, etc.
What other garbage would olive oil have in it? I unfortunately still live at home and know nothing. I'd rather eat ration bars and supplement with plenty of vitamins.
This is actually old news, about ten years, but it’s new if you weren’t aware. Search on brave browser “fake olive oil” “best brands” etc.
It’s getting harder to find this information because of censorship. YouTube might be a good source. Could be old videos explaining why the oil is fake. I’ve read the trees in Italy are dying, & the mafia is diluting for profit. I believe the major food companies that sell the oil in the grocery are just seeking a profit. After all we already know USA gov isn’t concerned about our well being. They’ve been tainting our food for decades, if not a century. I believe it all started when canned, frozen & box food came out. Year by year the ingredients got worse.
I prefer the taste of olive oil from Greece or Israel. I’ve heard Portugal has great oil. Lately I’ve been buying California Olive Ranch. I did some research and that brand kept coming up most reviews. If you are near a large metropolitan area Home Goods, Marshall’s & TJ Maxx can be good sources for oils, salt, spices, etc. Double check the expiration date, bottle should be dark or metal. Look up the olive company or ranch online.
It’s always been expensive and getting worse.
I like a blend of coconut, olive & sunflower oil. There’s some small companies in the states making this. Probably sunflower growers.
If you are baking and it calls for vegetable oil I use avocado because I don’t taste the olive oil.
Another tip with baking ditch the Pam! Learn to flour a pan like the old timers did. I melt butter when baking brownies or muffins. So far I haven’t needed flour.
Also lard crisco isn’t what it was in the 70s or before. It hasn’t been fat from an animal in a long time!
Look up Canola oil connections with American Heart Association. This is why your doctor suggests canola oil. Especially if you get the heart doc.
I envy the European & Middle East when it comes to fresh food. They still know the value of fresh hummus, feta, yogurt, cheese, spices, etc. I have never left USA and not planning to leave. I hope one day we can get back to a society that has fresh food markets in every city, including the rural areas. I’m seeing a change and I pray my grandkids will experience this life with out processed foods.
I know the change starts at home. I’ve ordered a foodsaver & will be putting up as much as I can in the next month. If we have to get another freezer we will.
There's pros and cons to everything. Take frozen meat for instance...known to harbor parasites and more importantly, it denatures and destroys the enzymes. Also totally ruins the meat texture via ice crystals. But...it's better to have it than none. If people steered clear of soy (including oils) and msg, I think they'd be in pretty good shape... but they probably don't know modified food starch has msg in it as well as others.
All food in the stores are processed in some form or another. The majority of society is unable to get even a sliver off of processed foods, and it was designed to be that way, with not having access and/or affordability to farm/ranch fresh produce and meats, being able to grow their own in their own backyards, and because ALL food in the stores, once again, have been processed in some sort of way. Even the fruits and veggies have been coated in chemicals to appear more pleasing to shoppers, grown with chemicals to make them larger (more expensive) but also less nutritious than their naturally organic counterparts.
Meats are often comprised of animals living in tight enclosed quarters with little to no access to clean fresh air, grass, or even away from standing in inches of piss and feces while living on a diet solely of corn and fillers.
Just because I do my best to feed my family well doesnt mean that I realize that it is so easily possible for the majority of others to do the same. And right now with many facing financial troubles, I sure as shit am not going to shame anyone for just getting some kind of substance in to their bellies at this point.
You shouldnt make assumptions... I grew up on nothing but food bank food.
And it hasnt nothing to do with just poor people, but not everyone lives in the country or in places where access to natural food stores, farmers' markets, butchers who sell directly to consumers, to farms, etc either. Some people only have access to local grocery stores and unfortunately the majority of EVERYTHING (Even produce) in grocery stores is NOT unprocessed.
I just put on my first pot of garden fresh green beans that I picked from one of the two gardens I planted and nurtured this year. I can hardly wait to taste them. I've got yellow squash and zucchini running out my ears which I blanched and froze some of last night. Already have tomatoes and also cooked some fried green tomatoes. In a few days I should have okra as it is blooming big time. Yes God is good and he blessed me with the hard work I put in, the rain and sunshine he so gracefully sent down, and the goodness it will bring to my family. Eat fresh whenever you get the chance. Thanks rooftoptendie.
Really? Maybe you should share your recipe with the rest of us. God bless.
This sounds like my mother-in-laws 'ripe tomato catsup' recipe she used to make. She would never give me the recipe as she said I had to stand there and watch her make it because it wasn't precise. I never had the opportunity to be around when she did make it. She would can it in jars for the winter and it was a great relish for white beans and most other types of beans. My husband loved it; of course his mother made it. Thanks, I will try this and see what I come up with. I think I just hit the jackpot. Have a blessed day.
If u can't pull / shoot it out of the air, ground, water - it's not food. Labs don't make food. They make bioweapons. We are what we eat in most cases.
Nice post Rooftop.
READ THE INGREDIENTS OF EVERYTHING. U will find so many things added to " food " (especially processed ) that have 10 syllable words that you've never heard of. Research them and u will often find out they are some of the same components of products like cleaning solutions, plastics, etc.
Now ask yourself wtf is ANY of that doing in a supposed food ? It does not add to taste.
If u start buying things with less junk in them they will still taste good, if not better. So why so many additives ? Well it's to cause inflammation and make u sick.
Your body can handle a lot of junk when u are young, but after years of abuse that shit begins to take it's toll and problems arise. This by design because they want us slaving, but as soon as we near retirement we are no longer an asset, but a liability.
They want us sick as near to 65 as possible so we can steal our last bit of money just before we are killed off. They do not cure people, the only treat symptoms with surgeries, pills, chemo, etc.
For instance look at the rise of cancers, diabetes, kidney disease, etc. and how it parallels the rise in sugar in our food supply. It's not like u eat 1 of these toxins and get a disease. That would be easy to catch and kill u too quick.
However if u give it to your victim in small doses over time it's almost undetectable, especially when no one makes the connection or gets silenced & killed when they do.
https://stillnessinthestorm.com/2020/06/101st-holistic-doctor-found-murdered/
There is more. If you research it you will find that the same companies that are involved in our food supply are also heavily involved in " healthcare ". They know there is a 100% guaranteed return on their investment, because they are the ones giving you their cocktails. You know what they do to children, do you rly put anything past them ? Glyphosate is 1 recent example.
In the healthy foods area u will find foods with all of these label icons like organic, non gmo, dairy free, gluten free, aluminum free, etc. It just goes to show you that they can provide non toxic products. If so why was all of this shit added to our foods or daily products in the first place ? Answered this above.
I could go on but I'll end rant here. Read your ingredients and grow your own food as much as possible. We literally have been under attack in every facet of our lives, for our whole lives. We are nothing but farm animals and lab rats to them. Waking up is much more than just politics.
It is quite frightening to discover what is really in your food. I went on Keto (heavily carnivore, which I can't recommend ENOUGH) and this is the biggest take away (off now since I like to follow Happy Wife, Happy Life montra). There are many foods I won't eat anymore, additionally to all the good info here about why you shouldn't eat all of these actually disgusting foods, there's another reason. They all support the current thing. LGBT, Ukraine, Anti-2A, Pro abortion, you name it, they (usually) support it.
When they say/mention "plant food" they arent really meaning from the ground. They are conditioning people to ignore that the food is coming from MANUFACTURING plants and are man-made lab projects. Notice how so many food products declare "Plant foods" on the packaging these days. And now many, in very tiny print, have a "Contains a bioengineered food ingredient" disclaimer.
You forgot the biggest reason. It’s easy as fuck to stay lean and score good pussy if you only eat real food. If you tend to only get your food from the outside ring of the grocery store. Veggies, fruits, eggs and other proteins. The caloric density of real food is low. So if you only eat real food, you don’t need to “diet.” No need to be hungry. You can eat until full and still cut weight. No one ever got fat eating broccoli, grilled chicken and eggs. Ever.
I was reading about Chef Boyardee
When he started selling in grocery stores, it was literally real sauce from his Italian restaurant with a bag of dry noodles and a pack of grated parm. It was real food and people loved it
Then decades later it's awful fake food
Here she is before the fillers:
https://twitter.com/Thats_So_Shana/status/510183713213517824/photo/1
And people who have had it when it was original continue to talk it up. The same thing happens in the tool industry. The cycles are actually much faster there because blue collar workers don't put up with no bleep. They make high quality reasonable priced tools, then over time, quality goes down, they sell because of their namesake, the disparity between production cost and sale price increases, and maybe costs went up regardless, still, the losses would be greater if they continued making that same high quality product. Dewalt is a great example of this, they made really good tools, they sold out to China and became trash, I think they're still made in China, but back to a higher quality level.
I assume this must happen in many industries. Food and pharma are once to watch out for though. Your very life is at stake.
Been buying a half-cow every year to supplement my protein intake from a local farm/butcher and the quality of the meat and the flavor and texture are lightyears above what you'll find at any mid-tier or below restaurant.
Conversations with them about the quality of animals that get selected for fast food rapidly made me never want to eat fast food ever again.
And by breaking that out into one giant expense, my overall monthly bills at the grocer went down significantly, and my costs overall are lower (buying in bulk at once means that I am still on pre-inflation pricing until my next order.)
A bigass veggie garden as well is semi-annoying to care for, but also dramatically drops the cost of grocer visits.
As time goes on and I transition to also getting eggs/milk from farms direct instead of grocers I expect a dramatic decrease in my overall bills.
Got a new freezer in, going to order a pig in the future and stop getting bacon at the grocer as well. Good times will be had.
It took me about a half-decade of prepping before I was ready to do it. 2 chest freezers and one standup freezer, one each purchased on Black Friday to knock the price down. In my area the ding and dent places never seem to have them in stock or I would have gotten them there (lots of hunters these parts.)
One of the most frustrating facts of life is that it takes money to save money and it takes time to make money. Planning is essential for long term success.
Most excellent post. We need to look at ALL ways we have been enslaved, including through shitty food. There is so much more, too. The whole concept of "work" is designed to make us toil to make the globalists rich. Time for a big rethink.
I did drop all processed foods about 10 years ago. I feel 20 years younger than my age.
Sounds accurate. We are being poisoned and our enemies get away with it because we are too lazy to read labels and cook our own food.
Humanity has gotten dumber very quickly the past 40 years or so. When the wheels come off, it's going to be ugly.
Consider hurricane shelters in stadiums, people lose it so fast, they recommend a few days of supplies for each day you might be there. Apparently people randomly soil themselves out of fear, others eat to an extreme excess. Some get violent and injure those around them. F'ing animals. Sit down, chill out. Whatever is going to happen either will happen, or has already happened. This political era has even shown this. Some people go bonkers on things they have no control over. You have in reality 1 good option. Trust God. That then comes with multiple steps, not least of all, including action on your part.
I noticed that when I started making sauces from scratch. One I learned how simple it was, I never went back. Sauces, salad dressings, gravies, marinades all of it.
Wait...whaaaaaa?
Not that it matters but I never would have guessed that.
Great post fren. How's the fresh eggs treating you? You DID finally get chickens right?
LoL.
Next time start with geese. Then ducks. The chicken compromise will be so much easier.
But....remember my dahlings, (and you know who you are), it doesn't matter how you feel, it matters how you rook. And dahlings, you rook mahvelous!
Billy Crystal - You Look Marvelous (1985)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXydX9p_ZxA
I grow as much of my own as I can and usually cook from scratch. If I do buy anything I read the small print carefully. Good diet is essential; those who take care look better than those who don't, and last longer and don't need big pharma to keep going.
We recently started buying grass fed/grass finished beef. The difference in taste, fat, food waste from gristle and tenderness is huge. For example stew beef cooks quicker and is tender. Cube steaks which usually from the grocery store are tough are tender and flavorful. Chicken from our farmer is very tender and moist. We haven’t receiver our pork share yet, that comes in August. Milk has a different taste, but only lasts about 10 days before it spoils, can’t say that about store milk. So obviously the ultra pasteurization and preservatives keep store milk unspoiled longer. Everything in stores is loaded with sodium too.
Raw milk when it sours, doesn't "go bad"; it still has many uses.
https://bartlettfarms.us/learning/does-raw-milk-go-bad/
https://www.theprairiehomestead.com/2013/05/20-ways-to-use-sour-raw-milk.html
https://www.realmilk.com/raw-milk-finder/
Thank you for that information. We have found it is about 10 days and then the milk smells “spoiled”. Of course, we have been tossing it. It was good information to have. It should have been obvious about storing milk on the bottom shelf of the refrigerator, but we never thought about it! DUH! We are going to give all the suggestions in the articles a try.
AMEN!!
QUALITY POST!
My only add here is that we have a small breed dairy cow. Raw milk is amazing, as are all the things I'm slowly traipsing into: raw butter, raw cheese, etc. Pair that with the duck eggs we raise, and we have some amazing ice cream. I like being in control of what's going in our bodies, but I need to take it a step further.
All good things, except the cellulose bit. You need fiber for digestion, it promotes good gut bacteria and physically wipes your digestive tract.
Are there soluble fibers in vegetables? I always hear about finer being one of the benefits of vegetables.
and while you are at it, trash your microwave that removes all nutrients from your food, use a steamer pot instead to warm up food, only takes a few minutes
I've seen something similar somewhere else and still find it hard to believe. The forces which bind atoms in a molecule don't seem like they'd be easily broken by mixing, at any level.
While I'm not that familiar with this stuff, common sense makes me think the bends in a molecule is not going to impact its usefulness. Do you know of any studies which show the usefulness of the molecules are reduced when they become more straight?
Asking if you know of any studies about the usefulness of these molecules if they are straightened out is not even a question to ask?!!! Sure it is. If you have more knowledge on this subject than me and have links to studies you can share you can either decide to share them or not. Common sense is certainly not something to throw out the window. I'll stick by my common sense belief that hand mixing, or even mixing with a blender or food processor, molecules will in no way change them. However, I will also do some searching on the subject.
The ferocity of mixing amino acids may reduce their benefits is a huge topic? The same as studies on the brain? Again my common sense tells me that's not the case.
Ok, spent a few minutes searching. What I gather from the results is that the nutritional value is not reduced at all by whipping the eggs, which is the question I was looking for the answer to.
https://www.quora.com/Does-beating-an-egg-change-its-nutritional-value-after-cooking
https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/eating-healthy-eggs#Cooking-makes-some-nutrients-more-digestible
https://www.livestrong.com/article/518052-does-scrambling-an-egg-ruin-the-protein/
https://www.exploratorium.edu/cooking/eggs/eggscience.html
https://cooking.stackexchange.com/questions/11305/what-does-beating-eggs-actually-do-chemically-speaking
What if the only way you like eggs is scrambled? Is olive oil okay? The message I'm getting is that anything not meat should be eaten raw.
I prefer avocado oil with eggs. I can’t taste the oil. Avocados are an excellent fat. I have used butter for eggs & find it burns. I believe choosing an oil has a lot to do with your nutrition goals. Trying to loose weight, belly fat: Avocado & coconut oils. Can’t go wrong with Olive oil for general health. Just make sure you are getting the real undiluted olive oil. Most olive brands are mixed oils. Look at the people that live along the Mediterranean coast. They have excellent heart health and use olive oil. I normally use olive oil when I’m cooking pasta, Italian and chicken. When I want to taste the oil. There’s lots of research available. Brave has been a good place to search weeding out government, pharma, etc.
What other garbage would olive oil have in it? I unfortunately still live at home and know nothing. I'd rather eat ration bars and supplement with plenty of vitamins.
This is actually old news, about ten years, but it’s new if you weren’t aware. Search on brave browser “fake olive oil” “best brands” etc. It’s getting harder to find this information because of censorship. YouTube might be a good source. Could be old videos explaining why the oil is fake. I’ve read the trees in Italy are dying, & the mafia is diluting for profit. I believe the major food companies that sell the oil in the grocery are just seeking a profit. After all we already know USA gov isn’t concerned about our well being. They’ve been tainting our food for decades, if not a century. I believe it all started when canned, frozen & box food came out. Year by year the ingredients got worse. I prefer the taste of olive oil from Greece or Israel. I’ve heard Portugal has great oil. Lately I’ve been buying California Olive Ranch. I did some research and that brand kept coming up most reviews. If you are near a large metropolitan area Home Goods, Marshall’s & TJ Maxx can be good sources for oils, salt, spices, etc. Double check the expiration date, bottle should be dark or metal. Look up the olive company or ranch online. It’s always been expensive and getting worse. I like a blend of coconut, olive & sunflower oil. There’s some small companies in the states making this. Probably sunflower growers. If you are baking and it calls for vegetable oil I use avocado because I don’t taste the olive oil. Another tip with baking ditch the Pam! Learn to flour a pan like the old timers did. I melt butter when baking brownies or muffins. So far I haven’t needed flour. Also lard crisco isn’t what it was in the 70s or before. It hasn’t been fat from an animal in a long time! Look up Canola oil connections with American Heart Association. This is why your doctor suggests canola oil. Especially if you get the heart doc.
https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2016/08/olive-oil-fake-larry-olmsted-food-fraud-usda/
https://camillestyles.com/food/olive-oil-fraud/
I envy the European & Middle East when it comes to fresh food. They still know the value of fresh hummus, feta, yogurt, cheese, spices, etc. I have never left USA and not planning to leave. I hope one day we can get back to a society that has fresh food markets in every city, including the rural areas. I’m seeing a change and I pray my grandkids will experience this life with out processed foods. I know the change starts at home. I’ve ordered a foodsaver & will be putting up as much as I can in the next month. If we have to get another freezer we will.
There's pros and cons to everything. Take frozen meat for instance...known to harbor parasites and more importantly, it denatures and destroys the enzymes. Also totally ruins the meat texture via ice crystals. But...it's better to have it than none. If people steered clear of soy (including oils) and msg, I think they'd be in pretty good shape... but they probably don't know modified food starch has msg in it as well as others.
Isn't that why flash freezing is used when you buy a cow / half a cow?
Raising meat chickens is very easy and only a 10 week commitment, 8 if you grow commercial breeds. I grow mine for about $.80 per pound.
You can also raise them take them to a butcher shop.
All food in the stores are processed in some form or another. The majority of society is unable to get even a sliver off of processed foods, and it was designed to be that way, with not having access and/or affordability to farm/ranch fresh produce and meats, being able to grow their own in their own backyards, and because ALL food in the stores, once again, have been processed in some sort of way. Even the fruits and veggies have been coated in chemicals to appear more pleasing to shoppers, grown with chemicals to make them larger (more expensive) but also less nutritious than their naturally organic counterparts.
Meats are often comprised of animals living in tight enclosed quarters with little to no access to clean fresh air, grass, or even away from standing in inches of piss and feces while living on a diet solely of corn and fillers.
Hot pockets? I dont eat that shit.
Just because I do my best to feed my family well doesnt mean that I realize that it is so easily possible for the majority of others to do the same. And right now with many facing financial troubles, I sure as shit am not going to shame anyone for just getting some kind of substance in to their bellies at this point.
You shouldnt make assumptions... I grew up on nothing but food bank food. And it hasnt nothing to do with just poor people, but not everyone lives in the country or in places where access to natural food stores, farmers' markets, butchers who sell directly to consumers, to farms, etc either. Some people only have access to local grocery stores and unfortunately the majority of EVERYTHING (Even produce) in grocery stores is NOT unprocessed.