I am trying to replace some items of food with healthier alternatives .
Today
Oat milk - good couldn’t tell the difference on cereal
Lemon and ginger tea -quite nice
vegan sausages - not bad
multi seed gluten free bread - yuk it’s awful
Myself I think you should just have what you fancy, but less of it and not so often.
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You are probaby right but I don’t eat much anyway as some foods disagree with me .
Milk for one .
I don’t eat pork for humane reasons
I only drink black coffee
I do like bread but wheat is a no no and wheat is in so many things .
I love oat bran myself. It has a lovely creamy texture and I read that is is even better than porridge oats. I don’t buy any special foods that are described as “healthy, low fat or free of anything” because they always seem a rip off. We eat plenty of fruit, veg and salad, rarely eat pastry. I agree that we should eat what we like in moderation. My veggie SIL died recently in her early 60s and she spent the last 30 years watching what she ate, visiting health shops and growing all her own veg so we are terribly sad but wondering what good it all did her.
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Unfortunately many things make me feel unwell so am trying to work out what i can eat.
I am trying very hard to eat healthily, and am currently experimenting with many vegan alternatives. I just keep my food as raw as possible. no processed food, plenty of fruit and veggies. I bake my own bread from wheat free flour (you can make oat flour pancakes for example…even grind some chickpeas for flour too). I drink plant based milk (almond and oat) and am trying out vegan “meat” alternatives like burgers, or veggie fingers.
Its best to try a few days at a time rather than go full on straightaway. Your body needs time to adjust.
Raw fruit and veggies while good are not for everyone , Apples and oranges ( which i love certainly dont love me ) but grapes and raspberries are ok .
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I’m not a vegetarian but I do go meatless 1 or 2 days a week.
I like vegetables but have to avoid those with a high iron content for medical reasons.
I’m not keen on fruit but I like it dried and I get if from here:
https://www.buywholefoodsonline.co.uk/
Buy Whole Foods Online is an international health food supplier, based in Minster, Ramsgate, North East Kent. We deliver top quality natural and organic wholefoods, and related healthy living products, directly to homes and businesses across the UK and Europe.
My favourite:
These sweet and tasty organic banana chips have been fried and sweetened with sugar.
A great natural confectionery - but also amazing with nuts, ice cream, brownies, coconut, other dried fruits and of course - dipped in melted homemade chocolate!
250g £2.58 (£1.03 per 100g)
500g £4.08 (£0.82 per 100g)
1kg £7.13 (£0.71 per 100g)
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Just curious. Why are those substitutes healthier than the originals?
I like oat bran too, I started adding it to my Weet-bix because I read that it reduced cholesterol (not that I have a cholesterol problem) but have become addicted to the stuff so I even add it to porridge.
BTW all food is organic. Man cannot live by coal alone.
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All of our bodies are quite different and eliminating those foods that disagree with you will go a long way to improving your health.
Have you found a pattern to what works for you and what doesn’t?
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I’ve been thinking about this thread a lot. My Dad lived to 86 and my Mum lived to almost 97. Their generation were brought up on homegrown veg, cheap cuts of meat and cheap stuff that filled you up but would be frowned upon now. Like dripping, suet puddings, yorkshire puddings, dumplings, bread and milk pudding sprinkled with sugar etc.
The nearest they ever got to health foods was when they changed from butter to Flora margarine very late in life.
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I applaude your initiative to eat healthier.
When you go to the processed Vegan products check for all the added chemicals and preservatives. They can be as bad in Vegan products as in meat based products.
Very similar to my parents.
It was a very different time. We did not have all the processed food with poor quality oils, loaded with preservatives and multiple forms of sugar. Most foods were not highly refined.
And margarine certainly was not healthier than butter.
Food processing and advertising telling us how good these foods are, have done us in.
I don’t know that they are healthier per se but they are foods that disagree with me so I am trying to replace them . .
Our parents may have ate the wrong stuff but they walked more and didn’t spend hours on devices sat down .
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That is very true. Both my parents were very physically active as part of their everyday life.
You will likely feel better if you replace anything that disagrees with you.
Hopefully so .
To be fair we haven’t seen nigella on I’m a celeb so we can’t compare what she would look like without the make up and hair dye, or the cosmetic dentistry and glam wardrobe.
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I haven’t eaten gluten for ten years (except by accident in contaminated foods). I don’t eat red meat. No takeaways, no deep fried food, no chips. So recently trying to cut down meat and eat plant based foods e.g veggie sausages, why do I feel less healthy?
It’s swings and roundabouts. I think rather than buy processed veggie foods eat lean meats and fish and severely cut down on carbs and white foods such as potatoes, white flour, white rice, cakes, pies, white sugar, pasta etc. Avoid processed food altogether if you can. Sweet potatoes instead of regular. A high balance of veg on the plate. Ideally not roasted or grilled. No crisps or biscuits.
I would not recommend anyone cuts out gluten unless you have a severe reaction to it. You can miss out on nutrients by doing so. There are very few brands of gluten free bread that are palatable. Schar can be ok, but better toasted, M&S do some ok sliced wholegrain bread, Bfree do a nice brown sliced loaf. But it’s expensive and for health reasons you’re better off eating rye bread or pumpernickel if you can eat gluten with no reaction.
What I have found is that it’s not the content but whether the food is processed that is bad for your health and wellbeing. But it all depends on your genes, so if you are sensitive to these things because of lacking whatever enzyme or gut flora that your pals have in plentiful supply you can likely not just eat anything and live to 110. (but they might)
NB I also have vegan / veggie friends who have suffered from serious illnesses in their late 40s to 50s despite their choices. It should be an ethical choice either for animal welfare or the planet, but it doesn’t guarantee long term health. I personally think we were made to eat meat /fish occasionally. But we were not designed to live to 110 or even more than 50.