Processed Food Free CLUB! part 1

Jenn, I know that you're doing a great job educating your family about healthy eating. Keep doing what you're doing, they'll catch on!

My husband is the one that actually initiated trying new things after years of not so along with my adventure of studying nutrition, it's been a mutual consent. I study, pass on the education and it's overall accepted. I did have to ask him to give up sodas. It took a little while but I think he's given it up, occasionally he'll buy a sweet tea while out but that's ok BIG CHANGES are worth waiting for!

welcome pchann!!! I made raw ketchup and bbq sauce that i don't care for. The ketchup tastes like cardboard! haha Do you have a good recipe for those? I don't have canning equipment.

I make fresh almond milk twice a week very simple to make and after drying the meat, I dehydrate it in the oven on low, grind in the coffee grinder for fresh almond flour and store in the freezer!

I'm so excited to see all the new posts!!! Just checking in and will have more time mañana to catch up! I'm just exhausted. We can't buy clean oat groats in Mexico, unless someone knows where???? Please tell me! So I have to pick out the hull. I spent ALL day picking it out to be able to make chewy granola and enough for porridge in the morning. Did you know oat groat porridge was the first cereal??? We don't buy boxed cereal anymore. You all that have access to clean oat groats & wheat berry, I'm jealous!

Almond milk is very easy to make! soak 1 cup of blanched almonds 4-6 hours or overnight, I add 2 cups of pure water to the blender and blend well. Then strain out the meat. I just use a mesh strainer. I don't add anything else but others do. ) Lots of youtube videos with how to's! Enjoy!

This is very interesting news! Thanks for sharing! I use the homemade cheese for cream cheese, adding a little Mexican vanilla and a pinch of salt, works great!

The cheese Funnygirl posted is actually called Labneh not cream cheese that we think of like Philly. you can more info on cheesemaking here in englush: http://biology.clc.uc.edu/fankhauser/cheese/cheese.html

Paul - 2 questions

What is the difference btwn Paloe, Neoanderthin and Primal? I read Mark's Daily Apple blog - very informatiional. changing habits here and there but not going totally grainless (yet)

ezekiel bread 4:9 doesn't contain flours but legumes. And was eaten way back in the day of Ezekiel; So what is wrong with this type of bread or soaked grain breads?

these are interesting questions since I'm not familiar with them! bread from legumes???

I would love to join the club! My goal is always to eat the least amount of processed foods possible but lately I have been falling off the wagon with breads and cereals. I have a degree in natural nutrition (not working in that field though) and have a big interest in whole food and local diets. It seems like I can learn a lot from the posters in this group. If anyone has their diaries available let me know... I do not have many friends who are eating this way so I would love to see some examples of how others are eating. Does anyone have a Vita-mix?

I'd love to have a Vita-mix someday, do you have one? I have a blender that can make smoothies that works great for making almond milk. We also have a jack la lanne juicer that someday I'd like to replace with a Champion when it wears out. Speaking of jack la lanne, he was pretty incredible! I looked up a bunch of his old videos and programs on youtube. Very inspirational man! I'm at the age that I think about a neck lift so I'm doing his facial exercises

I would love to have a degree in nutrition! I've studied constantly online about nutrition for nearly 2 years. Breads & cereals do have the bulk of my calories and when I do pass them up, along with pasta, I seem to lose quicker. Filling my calories up with fresh produce. I bake all of our breads. Whole wheat honey, which I only use whole wheat flour and sometimes grind my own wheat berry. The problem I have here in Mexico is that I can only find soft wheat berry which is used for pastries. So I have to add wheat glutton to make the bread stick together enough. Otherwise it won't rise and crumbles. Aside from whole wheat honey I bake, whole wheat focaccia flat bread, whole wheat pitas, and now whole wheat sourdough. Tonight I'm baking sourdough bowls and making corn chowder tomorrow. This is a really special treat for us because you can't buy sourdough bread in Mexico and I learned how to make the original starter...no yeast added! So cool!

We don't buy cereal anymore. My biggest pain is cleaning oat groats. I have to separate the hull from the whole oats. It's a painstaking chore. Takes me all day to pick through enough to make fresh chewy granola and porridge. Oat groat porridge is the first cereal ever! Love it and it's very good for us!

I use another site to log my food because I'm trying to balance all my vit and minerals out and this site doesn't offer enough. If your interested in another free site, pm and I'll send you the info. but the supportive community and user-friendly MFP can't be beat there!

I understand that buying fresh produce is a problem in the US, due to the expense. It sickens me that real food is so expensive! Produce is very affordable here, although I must confess I doubt it's all organic. For this reason I started a garden last fall but it only subsidies what we use. I don't know anyone else around here that buys and consumes as much produce as our family. We're asked monthly if we have a restaurant.

Right now, I'm eating a lot of atlantic salmon. There is something worth looking into about fish oil. It really does make you lose! In fact, although I'm not an advocate of supplements, I have some fish oil gel caps from a couple of years ago and I'm going to research how many I should take a day to lose faster! I just don't have that far to go.