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sillyma
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Posted: 4 January 2006 09:06 pm |
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I'm come from a culture that is centered around food. (South Texas, Hispanic ethnicity) Any time of the year, holidays or no holidays. Coming from that type of heritage (diabetes on both sides of my family) really makes me conscious of all that I do eat. I'v lost two aunts and a grandma from health complications due to obesity and diabetes. I don't want to fall into that trap. What are the best ways to teach myself and my children what to eat. We have gone, as a whole family, without junk food in the house for two weeks. Even through Christmas. The problem lies in going to friends and relatives houses where everyone is eating tortillas, enchiladas, refried beans(in bacon grease no less) and all that other fine Mexican food. I'm guilty of making it myself. These are the foods that I have grown up with all my life and it's time to change that. Any ideas would be great.
Thanks,
Daphne
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Peter
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Posted: 4 January 2006 09:26 pm |
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I think to a degree all cultures are centered around food. Or more specifically, all social activities. If we want to get together, it's around lunch or Starbucks or... always food!
This is an important topic and it is mentioned in a number of the newsletters, only one of which is Beware the Food Pushers.
I don't have time to look for it now but there is another topic which discusses this, too.
The bottom line is chosing your priorities, and asking those in your life to support you.
Oh, and here's something I said about it:
http://www.caloriesperhour.com/forums/forum25/57.html
Peter
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NevD
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Posted: 4 January 2006 09:56 pm |
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Like Peter suggested, you need to tell people what your food priorities are.
Those who support your efforts are real friends.
NevD 
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Peter
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Posted: 4 January 2006 10:32 pm |
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NevD,
You said it even better in another post but I can't find it!
Oh well...
Peter
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lynnie171
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Posted: 21 January 2006 04:40 pm |
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Sillyma....you are so not silly. It is important to start your kids off right from day one...BY EXAMPLE, not nagging. I am Jewish, and our traditional holiday meals are equally drowned in fat and everything bad. I have trained my brain to think healthy. When you are invited out, if you all eat something before you go then you can be choosy when you get there without making an issue of it. I have a friend (obese and an obese husband and obese kids) who frequently invites me for a traditional Fri. nite dinner. It always starts with chicken soup dripping with fat and goes downhill from there. I have convinced her that my favorite food in the entire world is boiled chicken and that I don't like soup. So I get the boiled chicken, take off the skin, while they eat the fried fatty everything else. If you cook healthy at home and you and your family take that for granted you are way ahead of the game.
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Sian
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Posted: 21 January 2006 08:07 pm |
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I think having unhealthy foods once in a while when you go to friends and relatives houses isn't something you should worry about. As long as you try to eat healthily the rest of the time.
I think one of the best ways to get yourself to eat healthy food is to read about the disgusting ways in which the food you crave is made. For example, reformed ham and sausages are made from the leftover bits of meat that can't be sold in another way. Yuck! And once I read cheese described as "fermented cow mucus". I love cheese as well, how disgusting!
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Peter
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Posted: 21 January 2006 09:10 pm |
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Sian, I agree about eating foods you wouldn't normally choose once in awhile. Problem is, some of us are with others very often. And some of us are like alcoholics with food... if we get a little and we can't stop.
I agree about how disgusting foods can be, but I'm not sure I'd say cheese was from "cow mucus." It's made from milk which relates to what came from your mother's breasts.
(This latter point comes to mind because I just spent a week with my daughter and her newborn.)
Peter
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Sian
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Posted: 28 January 2006 12:52 pm |
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Peter wrote: Sian, I agree about eating foods you wouldn't normally choose once in awhile. Problem is, some of us are with others very often. And some of us are like alcoholics with food... if we get a little and we can't stop.
Oh absolutely, I suppose it depends on what each person can handle. If having problem foods now and again brings on cravings, then it perhaps may be best not to have them at all.
As for cow mucus, I believe this is what the rennet taken from the cow's stomach to harden the cheese is. I still love cheese though!
Last edited on 28 January 2006 12:55 pm by Sian
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NevD
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Posted: 28 January 2006 01:07 pm |
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As for cow mucus, I believe this is what the rennet taken from the cow's stomach to harden the cheese is. I still love cheese though!
There are some vegetarian cheeses that use non-animal rennet, in case you're interested..
NevD
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Sian
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Posted: 2 February 2006 08:41 pm |
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nevd wrote:
As for cow mucus, I believe this is what the rennet taken from the cow's stomach to harden the cheese is. I still love cheese though!
There are some vegetarian cheeses that use non-animal rennet, in case you're interested..
NevD
I bet they don't taste quite as good though :p ...actually I think I tried some a while ago that tasted alright.
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NevD
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Posted: 2 February 2006 08:59 pm |
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I could never taste the difference... They're just harder to find.
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Roxann
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Posted: 16 April 2006 03:28 am |
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I know exactly where you're coming from. My husband is half spanish and we use to eat a lot of the same things you listed. Now it's a treat. I only make a spanish dinner maybe once a month or two. I just limit myself. It's hard to do because it's so yummy but like the saying goes "A moment on the lips,forever on the hips.I beleive you should continue eating spanish food but limit yourself.If you have to make a smaller amount ,do so,everybody in the household could benefit from having smaller portions.
Roxann
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chris302
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Posted: 18 April 2006 09:43 pm |
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I would suggest learning to lighten up your favorite ethnic foods (when you are the cook). Almost anything can be made in a healthier version. That, along with portion control will help you eat reasonably and enjoy food without giving it up or gaining weight.
When I go to my MIL's house, I bring a vegetable dish that is healthy. Then, when we eat, I take small dabs of the fattening foods and a big spoonful of my veggies and lots of salad, and nobody notices because my plate is full.
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Roxann
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Posted: 19 April 2006 03:07 pm |
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I have to agree with you that when we cook we do have a chose of better foods.We also have a lot of gathering and if I don't have my plate full it makes people feel as though there food isn't good enough. I hear that all the time.I don't want to hurt there feelings so I tell them I've eaten a little something before coming so I'm not very hungry, being hypoglocemic I had to eat something.Usually that works.I need to ask ya something? Is I natural that the spanish has gatherings for everything.I noticed my husbands family does.
Roxann
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