Who Eats this S***?

[Ms Erica Phoenix]

(Please read and remember that The Lounge used to be a happy friendly place, at least part of the time!)

This morning I discovered that I accidentally bought COCONUT yogurt. It must have been in the wrong pile, or I reached for the wrong pile, past the mango papaya, pineappple and lime...

Call me a traditionalist, but I like what i like. Cherry, blueberry, strawberry. Greek style (hehe) yoghurt with fruit on the bottom! Stirred if I have to, and raspberry if there aren't any other options. Regardless...there are 2 flavours of food I just can't stand...coconut and banana.

What are your 'don't go there' foods?

 

[badbadboy]

Coconut is one of the 'new' super foods.

Coconut water, oil etc are all over health stores these days

http://authoritynutrition.com/top-10-evidence-based-health-benefits-of-coconut-oil/

Me, I always have a can of premium coconut milk in the pantry just in case I get motivated to make a curry.

 

[uncleg]

(Please read and remember that The Lounge used to be a happy friendly place, at least part of the time!)

This morning I discovered that I accidentally bought COCONUT yogurt. It must have been in the wrong pile, or I reached for the wrong pile, past the mango papaya, pineappple and lime...

Call me a traditionalist, but I like what i like. Cherry, blueberry, strawberry. Greek style (hehe) yoghurt with fruit on the bottom! Stirred if I have to, and raspberry if there aren't any other options. Regardless...there are 2 flavours of food I just can't stand...coconut and banana.

What are your 'don't go there' foods?

Tradtionalist.??????? They don't even grow blueberries in Turkey, and the rest are also not native to the region......so WTF ? Yogurt...plain. Maybe throw in some fruit if I blend it.

"Don't go there"......yogurt with fruit on the bottom, or any kind of artificial flavour. Not fond of fried earthworms either, just can't get the sand out of them.

 

[Ms Erica Phoenix]

Well trust me to start a fight about yogurt!

 

[Lo-ki]

FOOD FIGHT

 

[badbadboy]

Well trust me to start a fight about yogurt!

One could say both you and yogurt are cultured.

 

[take8easy]

Yogurt is great. In fact at home it is very much a "go there" food. In fact it is part of our daily diet at home.

Nothing like a bowl of plain 100% home made yogurt. It is not too hard to make really. All you need is milk of your choice, a pot, a stove and a spoonful of yogurt. (pm me if anyone needs the recipe.)

You can even sprinkle some salt and black pepper on it. Also dress it with peppermint leaves or some basil. If you like it sweet, just add some sugar before eating.

In summer I throw in pretty much any fruit I can lay my hand on. Watermelon, mango, berries!!!

 

[Ms Erica Phoenix]

Tradtionalist.??????? .

Errr. It appears that I may have touched a nerve, uncleg.

Let me add to the 'traditionalist' part of that original quote of mine. I think I probably first ate yoghurt in the early 1970s. My mom, LHTB*, made it herself in Mason jars from raw milk in a warm bathtub. She grew organic fruit (wanna guess what?) in our backyard and went picking what she couldn't grow (strawberries). She grew up not only living on a farm, but helpiing support the family by picking fruit in the summertimes once her youngest sister was old enough to leave home alone. Cherries always came from Grandma's farm; If I stood on the peak of my roof here in Clayton Heights, I can JUST ABOUT see where it was on Latimer Road Hill. Sometimes though, we bought them at Two Ees on the way back home. So, yeah, homemade yogurt with homegrown fruit on the bottom, for sure the first yogurt I ever had. Later, once the commercial food industry perverted it into something full of gelatin and sugar, I switched to a full fat Greek style, but I still prefer the fruit on the bottom version, and I like to stir the fruit in myself. My three favourite flavours by preference are cherry, strawberry and blueberry, and rasperry after that, since Mom still grew raspberries at home until they sold their house last year. (I find raspberry seeds in my teeth annoying though.) She hasn't made her own yogurt in a long long time though...but I bet dollars to donuts that she ate it for dessert last night! ound:

I am with you on the any artificial flavour thing though, my two least favourite artificial flavours being coconut and banana. I like coconut fresh from the shell; and that's the only way I'll eat it. Not dried, fried, shredded, breaded, buttered, rummed, or flambeed! Bananas? Just ripe enough that they don't make my teeth feel weird and not so ripe that they have started to smell like bananas. They also need to be soft but not squishy. Or bruised. Or brown. To me, banana perfection has a window of about 1.5 days...

And why do I feel like Kramer all of a sudden? ound:


*Love Her To Bits.

 

[Ms Erica Phoenix]

Coconut is one of the 'new' super foods.

Coconut water, oil etc are all over health stores these days

http://authoritynutrition.com/top-10-evidence-based-health-benefits-of-coconut-oil/

Me, I always have a can of premium coconut milk in the pantry just in case I get motivated to make a curry.

I have had my adventures with coconut oil, too, and I have been tempted to see if the 'oil pulling' would work well for me, but it is more the aroma of the coconut oil I have a hard time getting past. I don't like the way coconut tastes PRIMARILY because I don't like the way it smells...As I understand the way I react to the smell of raw onions, it's most likely a mild allergy. Given the TREMENDOUS head to toe skin reaction I had last year after a coconut oil massage, I am inclined to think that something in my system doesn't or didn't care for it. It is possible that what made me so sick after was the coconut oil killing something off! Hard to know.

 

[Peyton Anders]

I don't generally recommend eating yogurt with fruit already added to it. Check out the sugar content, some can be as high as 25g (3 teaspoons) per single serving container. Plain Greek yogurt with fruit you add yourself (mix frozen fruits with a teaspoon of chia seed, microwave for 1 min and mash -- jam!) is a far better alternative. I also like natural peanut butter and raw oats on mine.

/science

Anyhow, my no no foods are pretty slim. No organ meats, no soy (or GMO products in general) or mushrooms. Also fuck kale, that shit is vile.

 

[Ms Erica Phoenix]

I only eat plain yogurt these days, the higher m.f % the better!! I won't touch non-fat dairy. Other foods & food-like substances I avoid are anything genetically modified, fast foods, processed foods, chemicals, refined-sugars and gluten (because I have celiac). I prefer real (God-made) food like my grandmother used to eat lots of fruit and veggies, organic, free-range, grass fed meats.

Thanks Miss T, I couldn't agree more! I can walk to the farm where my grandparents lived from my house in under 30 minutes. Five years ago, before I quit eating all that processed crap compulsively, I weighed 285 pounds and a size 24.
Now?

I don't! :clap2:

 

[Samantha Jones]

you can get the benefit of kale by adding it to fruit smoothies for protein- add fruit and the bitter taste is gone also i find the coconut yogurt to be a great alternative source to dairy- not for everyone i know but after watching food inc I'm glad i switched

 

[Ms Erica Phoenix]

(Cut for stuff that I absolutely agree with 100% but am far too lazy to follow 99.98% of the time!)

Anyhow, my no no foods are pretty slim. No organ meats, no soy (or GMO products in general) or mushrooms. Also fuck kale, that shit is vile.

Oh that made me laugh Peyton! I tell people that all the time. Chia seeds I can't do, because of the texture. It's like tapioca...eww...I can't stand how it feels between my teeth. My SO has a speech all about mushrooms too, and how you'd starve to death in a room full of them.

Kale is just a fucked up cabbage. I don't buy cabbage, I don't eat cabbage, (unless it's a side order of White Spot Coleslaw yum!)

 

[EuroSZabina]

Lol Erica

I cook with coconut oil now and I put some on my warm oatmeal every morning.
I even bought coconut oil for my dogs in a pet store, and we eat it together, bruahahaha, taste better what I buy in my vitamin store
Chia seed too, I eat it like a maniac, I'm opposite to you I like the crunchy feel when I eat it.
I just bought a bag last week, and again a few days ago because it was different color .
I like to try weird tasting food as long as it's healthy for you,
Everybody is different I guess I eat s***** lol

 

[EuroSZabina]

Thanks Miss T, I couldn't agree more! I can walk to the farm where my grandparents lived from my house in under 30 minutes. Five years ago, before I quit eating all that processed crap compulsively, I weighed 285 pounds and a size 24.
Now?

I don't! :clap2:

WoW !!!!!
Love this flexi picture of you!!!!
Good for you!!!

 

[Peyton Anders]

Oh that made me laugh Peyton! I tell people that all the time. Chia seeds I can't do, because of the texture. It's like tapioca...eww...I can't stand how it feels between my teeth. My SO has a speech all about mushrooms too, and how you'd starve to death in a room full of them.

Kale is just a fucked up cabbage. I don't buy cabbage, I don't eat cabbage, (unless it's a side order of White Spot Coleslaw yum!)

You can purchase ground chia which will still act as a natural thickener without the seed texture.

 

[Ms Erica Phoenix]

Lol Erica

I cook with coconut oil now and I put some on my warm oatmeal every morning.
I even bought coconut oil for my dogs in a pet store, and we eat it together, bruahahaha, taste better what I buy in my vitamin store
Chia seed too, I eat it like a maniac, I'm opposite to you I like the crunchy feel when I eat it.
I just bought a bag last week, and again a few days ago because it was different color .
I like to try weird tasting food as long as it's healthy for you,
Everybody is different I guess I eat s***** lol

See there are lots of foods that I love that are seeded, or have nuts in them, and are healthy, but there's something about chia I don't like! I like millet, sesame, soybeans, sunflower seeds (raw and toasted!)...Maudie (mom) Those crunchy little fishie eggs on my sushi? Love 'em! Chia? Hate it! My tenants follow a paleolithic diet, so I have grown to know the smell of foods cooking in coconut oil. Of course, I think she cheats sometimes (as I do) by adding a little of the saved bacon fat to flavour stuff! It seems to be bacon o'clock downstairs just before every meal...

 

[Ms Erica Phoenix]

You can purchase ground chia which will still act as a natural thickener without the seed texture.

So then I'm curious (really!) as to what benefit the chia is giving me...just extra nonsoluble fibre?

 

[Peyton Anders]

So then I'm curious (really!) as to what benefit the chia is giving me...just extra nonsoluble fibre?

Omega fatty acids and iron as well.

 

[Ms Erica Phoenix]

Omega fatty acids and iron as well.

Ah!! I thought that might be part of it (omegas) and the iron is good to know about as well! Thank you!