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New labelling requirements - Canada
Having been phased in and except for a few exceptions for bulk foods and similar products... http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/story/2012/08/03/food-allergy-labels.html Couple clips ...packaged foods must clearly list allergens using common names, like "milk" instead of "hydrolyzed casein," by Saturday. The rules will require…
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Who makes your food guide?
Nice write-up that I read about the Canadian Food Guide http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/story/2012/07/27/f-food-guide-70.html Couple clips ... After the Dairy Bureau of Canada and the Canadian Egg Marketing Agency both objected that the proposed guide had reduced the number of servings of their industry's products, that…
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Canning
So... where do we all get our canning supplies? I've been buying my lids at the dollar store but they just jumped up in price to par with all the other suppliers around here, 20% increase since last month. Any one with experience with the Tattler reusable lids? I'm interested in them just haven't had a chance to purchase.…
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Garden - who has plans
It's coming up on time to get some seeds started here, will do the usual peas and beans, hope the strawberry and blueberries made it through the weird winter... beets, and much more. I've been building the collection of jars over the winter when I can find them in thrift-stores at reasonable prices... sometimes they charge…
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Scale Movement - finally
So after a long period of the wrong direction with weight, I went from 38 lbs lost to 16 lost, during that time I was eating under my BMR on a regular basis... I decided for March to eat above my BMR and see what that would do for weight loss, and after a brief period of gains the scale is now moving in the right…
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Dehydrator
I just picked up a dehydrator and a food-sealer (the heat sealing bags that will extract air before closing the item giving it a potentially longer storage life) Anyone else have one and use a dehydrator? Any suggestions for items to get started with? I'm definitely planning to do some jerky as I can buy the meat for…
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Traditional Products and Alternative Uses
Just in case the subject gets truncated this is the whole line "Traditional Products and Alternative Uses" Another thread got me thinking on this earlier... what are some of your house-hold items that you may use in non-traditional fashions? One of my major traditional items.... Vinegar some of my alternative uses for it…
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Healthy pudding alternative??
Anyone got any recipes? All I can find are ones that require cooking as seen in the 'Joy of Cooking' cookbook, but I haven't tried 'em yet. Too used to the 'instant' puddings or ready made pudding cups. I just remember growing up a baby-sitter insisted pudding wasn't pudding without a skin on the top from baking which…
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High Maltose Corn Syrup
Imagine my surprise when I bought a snack last night in a rush at the grocers and didn't take the time to check the ingredients as I normally would. High Maltose Corn Syrup... so what the manufacturers thing that because we "all" know about high fructose corn syrup if they change the sugar involved that the product is…
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Product Labelling (in Canada)
Well this was an eye opening read as I checked my email tonight http://www.besthealthmag.ca/eat-well/nutrition/the-truth-about-product-labels From that link Mulit-grain "Multi" simply means more than one, so a muffin bearing this label, for example, could be made with many types of nutritious grains, such as oats and bran.…
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Canning
So... canning season must be near, I went to the grocer's again today and saw their mason jars in stock where recently it was Easter clearance. Over the weekend I was on the farm looking at the garden and seeing what's coming (potatoes are doing well, as is the corn, peas are coming but beans are nowhere to be seen)…
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Security Reminder
So, in browsing another forum I frequent I came across this info that is good reminder of WHY we're supposed to use unique names and passwords for EVERY website we use. I do, this username is not used by myself on any other internet-site and none of my usernames elsewhere are shared. So, it *seems* like LulzSec got a hold…
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10% of my starting weight GONE
SO, I told myself I'd wait til I had achieved this 10% of my starting weight (330lbs) lost before I'd post a success story, today is that day. At the end of November I went shopping (at a second hand shop) for clothes for a Christmas party... in order to get the new to me clothes I had to select from what they had for…
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A Big Ouch, and a recommendation
So while cooking dinner tonight I've decided that certain tools are getting upgraded. IF you're shopping for a steamer make sure that at the very least the steamer part doesn't have a hollow handle which will channel the steam directly into your palm giving a scalding. When preparing food there's nothing quite so…
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Packaged "serving size" items
I was shopping yesterday, and was really grabbed by the difference in cheese prices. Are people really so pressed for time that they purchase the 186g pack of cheese blocks that aren't an ounce each? For the same price as a 700g block that you then just have to slice with your scale nearby to end up with the same thing? Or…
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Sabotage
As I posted in another thread I realized I'd said something that I hadn't really thought of. "...I've only been here for about a week now haven't done my follow-up weigh in for progress tracking yet. Maybe I'm avoiding it come to think of it because it seems every time I 'see' progress via some weight loss it's straight to…
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I'm new 'round here
Hey all, just getting started on here, friend introduced me to the site over the holidays and boy am I glad they did. I've worked with a nutritionist prior to this but I found it inconvenient tracking the foods, finding the nutritional info to write down what it was I was eating and I'm up 15 lbs beyond what I was when I…
