Y'know, I have a lot of common sense. I'm not bragging, I'm just saying...
I gave up margerine over a year ago. I started eating butter, instead.
Butter costs about four times as much! It's full of fat! What's WRONG with me?!?
I ate a LOT of margerine. I smeared it heavily on breads; I pan fried with it; I heaped it into hot cereals, vegetables, pastas....
Suddenly, it occurred to me: margerine is CRAP! It's synthetic in color, flavor and texture. It's plastic food, and it's got to be nasty!
It also occurred to me: I grew up on real butter. I was missing it, and was reminded of that, every time I reached for the slop tub. And the only margerines I could afford were made with saturated fats, so it wasn't like it was healthier or anything.
The reason I was using so MUCH margerine was that I was craving the sensation of butter!
So, a year ago Thanksgiving, I quit buying margerine. I made a vow to myself: butter or nothing.
I fry with nonstick spray or corn oil, or nothing at all. That has eliminated most of my consumption.
On breads, I LIGHTLY smear room-temperature butter, so it just glistens a tad. I literally shave a bit of butter into mashed taters, grits, hot cereals, etc. I don't eat it on pastas any more; if I can ever afford it, I'll use olive oil for that.
In other words, I've satisfied my life-long cravings for butter, and have greatly reduced my fat consumption, as a result!
It takes me at least 2 months to eat four sticks of butter. I used to buy margerine twice a month!
Margerine on sale was about thirty cents a pound.
Butter on sale is about two dollars a pound.
So, I'm paying sixty cents more per two months, and I'm using less cooking fat. HAH!
Well, lately, I've been thinking about cow's milk. Mad Cow got me started, but I've been wondering about stuff like lactose intolerance in humans.
Such a pervasive allergy to a food indicates we're not, as humans, designed to suck cow teats all day. And, being part Cherokee, and knowing Native Americans are harder hit both by lactose intolerance and by diabetes (and that these seem to be scientifically connected), I was interested.
Then, I discovered the goat cheese at the Palestinian grocery. It's as cheap as cow cheese. The flavor and texture are much more strong. I use less and enjoy it a helluva lot more.
Today, for example, I made burritos from 2 pork tenderloin chops and some tortillas the homeless guy brought me from the garbage. I smeared them with pilaf, my refries and a whisper of that jalepeno sour cream I got on sale. I cut thin, thin slices of crumbly goat cheese: probably only about 3 or 4 tablespoons.
That was MORE than enough cheese for eight burritos! Seriously!
Now, with commercial, block cheese...even sharp cheddar...I could easily have put four tablespoons on EACH BURRITO! No kidding! LOL.
So, I looked up goat cheese. I'll try to find the URL...
here it is: http://www.wholehealthmd.com/refshelf/foods_view/1,1523,278,00.html It compares goat, cow and human milk nutrition...if I found the right link.
I didn't here's the one with comparisons: http://www.northernprairiechevre.com/nutrition.html
That URL sent me to a Redbook article on "forbidden" foods.
http://magazines.ivillage.com/redbook/print/0,,405329,00.html
Another thing I've been wondering: if eggs are so bad for you, how come European peasants don't get heart disease? Guess what? eggs are one of the "forbidden" foods.
It's kind of like wine: how come European peasants aren't alcoholics? same principles.
Which reminds me: I meant to get me some wine this month. A glass a day or so is good for reducing cholesterol...and forgetting your feet hurt! LOL
SO, all the friggin propoganda is just that: PR.
COMMON SENSE is the best nutrition!
see, we eat vast quantities of easily accessible, processed crap, full of empty calories. We don't eat like our ancestors anymore.
Foraging and gathering are our heritage and legacy. Fast food joints, tubs of flavored fats, cellophane bags of styrofoam snacks, cakes that don't spoil, meat that bounces...these aren't foods!
A bunch of that crap the homeless guy, and some cheese puffs, I dumped out in the flower beds for the birds.
The birds won't eat them. Neither would the dog, who eats cat poop.
Neither will Osa, my carbohydrate cat. She'll eat my home made: pasta, potato chips, french fries, tortillas, bread, crackers, cookies, pie crusts....but she won't eat that artificial crap I put out for the birds!
We're being poisoned, and paying for it.
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