Food

DIY Soylent

Posted by abraham.williams@gmail.com on in fitness, Food, Health
Eating clean can be hard. Eating and measuring amounts so you can see food effects is also hard. It takes time. My daily life requires a lot of time and energy already. So, I’ve switched to a meal replacement plan that is pretty easy to manage. In today’s terms, it’s called DIY Soylent.

I got myself a NUTRiBULLET blender for convenience and spend about 10 minutes making my Soylent in the morning. Here’s my recipe that gets me a considerable portion of my calories, and I can knock out two meals with. I do my higher carb shake post workout. Note: the quinoa was key to feel satiated.

I also include the following in my protein mix…

High Carb Soylent

Protein Carbs Fat
Protein 2 scoops 40
Quinoa 1 cup 24 109 10
Carrot 6
Banana 27
Peanut butter 8 8
Total 72 142 18

Low Carb Soylent

Protein Carbs Fat
Protein 2 scoops 40
Quinoa .5 12 58 5
Carrot 6
Banana 27
Peanut butter 8 8
Total 60 91 13

Yet another natural food getting pasteurized…almonds

Posted by abraham.williams@gmail.com on in Food, Health

In case you haven’t heard, yet another wonderful and natural food is going to undergo pasteurization. It’s the almond.

Here’s the official word.

The unofficial story is that a 55,000 acre farm in California south of San Francisco spread fertilizer (chicken poop) just before the almond harvest. As almonds are harvested from the ground, fertilizer also made it into the year’s bounty. As a local almond farmer put it, they made a stupid mistake and now the rest of the large almond farmers have to pay for it.

I got this story second hand. It could be untrue (I’m checking with the California Almond Board). However, if this is true, then there should be a fine and some schooling on how to harvest almonds instead of some blanket policy that denatures yet another food supply.

The good news is farmers who sell directly to the public are exempted at the moment. So, if you want fresh and raw almonds, find your local farmers market.

More evidence against processed food…the additives

Posted by abraham.williams@gmail.com on in Food

Thanks to Art Bogie for sending me this link on food additives and uncontrollable children. As I have been limiting my children’s access to processed foods and sugar since they were born, I can see what happens to them when a neighbor slips them a Gogurt (a sugary concoction in a plastic tube that plays as yogurt…28grams of sugar!). My children are so sugar insensitive that when they’ve eaten something processed and filled with sugar, they go bazonkers. Even the smallest amount is evident.

This article calls out sodium benzoate and food “colouring” agents. Evidently, when sodium benzoate, asorbic acid, and potassium benzoate are combined the result is carcinogenic. The link to hyperactivity is even listed in wikipedia here. Yikes, check your food labels.