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Top Dog · Site Moderator Joined: 06 Jun 2007 Posts: 1574 Status:

What are your food habits?
Is it important to you that you only buy organic?
Does the lifestyle of the animal you are eating matter?

Local lass · Calnetalk Oracle Joined: 05 Jun 2007 Posts: 2606 Status:

I must admit i dont always buy organic.and my meat is meat i dont really look if its free range.If im honest i go for what ever is on offer or what i fancy.I find organic far to overpriced for my liking.

Bear · Bentlian Oldboy Joined: 13 Jun 2007 Posts: 822 Status:

If I like the taste then I will buy it again and it matters not what it is or where it's from. The price will matter because none of us have unlimited wealth but that is the only criteria.

Kizzy · Posted: Fri Aug 17, 2007 1:00 pm Post subject:

I would like to eat more organic and free range but the cost can be quite high compared to the non. If it was only a penny here and there then yes I would make more of a concious effort to eat organic and free range.

For example eggs - if I am in sainsburys I will buy their basics 15 for £1, their free range is something like £1.75 for 6. That's a difference of 22p per egg. If I am in the vicinity I will buy the 12 for £1 free range eggs from the market stalls or veg shops.

I would like to shop more at local farm shops and butchers, but I would have to travel alot more to do my shopping. So I only go to them if I am in the area shopping for something else
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Clunk · Ejected Joined: 29 Jul 2007 Posts: 935 Status:

I dont care what I eat providing it isn't spaghetti bolognaise.
I couldnt care less where it came from. I dont think it is really important. All this organic rubbish that has been brought in over the past few year, I think, is just hype. What have we been eating for the past several hundred thousand years? 4,000 years ago, we used to eat nothing but raw meat. 500 years ago, we drunk nothing except mead. We have survived this long. What does it matter now?

God I'm on my soap box today

Local lass · Calnetalk Oracle Joined: 05 Jun 2007 Posts: 2606 Status:

effort to eat organic and free range.

apart from cost kizzy why else do you want to eat organic and free range?

Kizzy · Posted: Fri Aug 17, 2007 6:16 pm Post subject:

It does taste better.
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Local lass · Calnetalk Oracle Joined: 05 Jun 2007 Posts: 2606 Status:

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Durgan · Posted: Fri Sep 28, 2007 1:07 am Post subject:

My main source of protein is soy beans. Every ten days I cook 6 cups of dry beans. I boil gently for 7 hours in water and add a bit of molasses for colour and about a cup of sugar to improve the taste for me. The mixture is then blended to a smooth texture and put in liter jars. I get four jars from 6 cups of dried beans. This lasts me for about 8 days.

Each morning for breakfst I eat a cup and a half cold from the refrigerator. For starch, I eat a l bowl of large flake oats cooked for two minutes in the microwave. I have been doing this for 30 years.

I am not fanatical about food, but must have my soy beans and oats to start the day. Usually later in the day I will have whatever is offered, but usually only two meals per day. I drink the "juice" described at various times during the day.

To get a large variety of fruit this depicts my procedure. This is just one sample each mixture is different.

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The product may be consumed as a liquid or simply eaten with a spoon depending upon the consistency of the mixture. Some people prefer to masticate, but I prefer to simply drink the end product.

Select RAW; pineapple, peppers, oranges, grapefruit, carrots, bananas, mellon, cranberries frozen or fresh, strawberries, raspberry, blueberries, lettuce, spinach, peaches, kiwi, nectarine, plums, broccoli, grapes, tomato, pear, and in the summer I utilize any garden vegetable available. Bean sprouts are not particularly suitable, since the end product is overwhelmed by its flavour.

Skin thinly (I don't trust using the skin, since I am somewhat concerned about herbicide and pesticide residue) and, cut into reasonable size pieces and put into the common blender, add the necessary amount of water to blend to an even consistancy. Usually I make a one or two litre quantity at one time, and wrap the remaining fruit and keep in the refrigator until needed.

I have been doing this many years, and consume far more fruit and vegetable than I ever would were the fruit eaten individually. Also, the variety is much greater. Usually I eat or drink a litre of the mixture daily. The taste takes on the flavour of the prominent fruit used; in my case, usually pineapple or mellon, and the colour varies considerably from red, green, brown, blue, and all shades between. For a refreshing cold drink in the summer, sometimes I throw a few ice cubes in the blender with the mixture. Over the years I have added most fruits or vegetables, whatever is available at the time.
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