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I don’t eat sugar anymore but I noticed that after dropping soda and sweets I still eat a lot sugar. It’s in everything. Even tomato sauce and stuff that you’d

by gotem 6y ago

I don’t eat sugar anymore but I noticed that after dropping soda and sweets I still eat a lot sugar. It’s in everything. Even tomato sauce and stuff that you’d think is healthy. I’m not sure it’s even possible to have a full diet without any sugar at all. You can do sugar-free waffles but then it’s for nothing if they’re doused in syrup (very sugary)

fach 6y ago
It is but you need to shop at the outside edges of your market and pay the labor cost of making most meals from scratch, both of which make nutrition more expensive.
- iridium_core 6y ago
  If you're worried about labor, cook using a pressure cooker eg. instant pot. You prepare your ingredients, throw it into a pot, and press a button - coming back to perfectly cooked food with zero monitoring. I work from home and so use mine daily.
  - gotem 6y ago
    Me too. You can even go faster by sealing the food with some insulator (e.g. plastic or tinfoil) to make it retain heat and cook faster in the microwave.
    - criddell 6y ago
      Tinfoil in the microwave? Doesn’t it arc?
      - knicknic 6y ago
        That’s what the government wants you to believe.
      - Geezus_42 6y ago
        I believe that depends whether it's actually tin or instead aluminum.
      - smichel17 6y ago
        I don't know the answer to this, but my grandma has an old microwave with a metal grill that your food rests on (like a rack in a conventional oven). I am not sure if it is the type of metal or the shape (it has a squiggly bend on each side, in the middle[0]), but it's definitely possible for metal to go in the microwave without sparking. [0] very similar to this https://i.redd.it/7nakjihppwy11.jpg https://i.redd.it/7nakjihppwy11.jpg
asddubs 6y ago
yeah I do the no-sugar thing from time to time and I noticed that pretty much all products will have at least 2 - 5% sugar in them, so I ended up just trying not to buy anything that exceeds that.
worik 6y ago
I have pretty much stopped eating processed foods. I am also a avid reader of nutrition labels. Not sure it has made much difference to me, but it lowered my food bill. The advice I follow, not sure where it si from: Eat food. Mostly plants. As unprocessed as convenient.
- brianush1 6y ago
  > The advice I follow, not sure where it si from Michael Pollan famously said, "Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants."
- 11235813213455 6y ago
  exactly, I eat a lot raw leeks (the green parts are the best raw of course, for the white part, I let it a few days so it gets less 'spicy'), raw spinach, raw onion leaves, raw green cabbages or kale cabbages and a lot of fruits (clementines, oranges, pears, persimmons, and figs/medlars when it's the season). I find this food either in the nature (you gotta search a bit) or at local farm I used to eat a lot of honey, completely stopped, not even talking about other stuff like chocolate, or other processed products/meals, I stopped a long time ago, the cooking is done is my belly, no need for fanciness!
hobby-coder-guy 6y ago
Syrup is sugary. Lol
watwut 6y ago
Tomato sauce we are buying have tomatoes and salt in it, nothing else.

by gotem 6y ago

fach 6y ago

It is but you need to shop at the outside edges of your market and pay the labor cost of making most meals from scratch, both of which make nutrition more expensive.

iridium_core 6y ago
If you're worried about labor, cook using a pressure cooker eg. instant pot. You prepare your ingredients, throw it into a pot, and press a button - coming back to perfectly cooked food with zero monitoring. I work from home and so use mine daily.
- gotem 6y ago
  Me too. You can even go faster by sealing the food with some insulator (e.g. plastic or tinfoil) to make it retain heat and cook faster in the microwave.
  - criddell 6y ago
    Tinfoil in the microwave? Doesn’t it arc?
    - knicknic 6y ago
      That’s what the government wants you to believe.
    - Geezus_42 6y ago
      I believe that depends whether it's actually tin or instead aluminum.
    - smichel17 6y ago
      I don't know the answer to this, but my grandma has an old microwave with a metal grill that your food rests on (like a rack in a conventional oven). I am not sure if it is the type of metal or the shape (it has a squiggly bend on each side, in the middle[0]), but it's definitely possible for metal to go in the microwave without sparking. [0] very similar to this https://i.redd.it/7nakjihppwy11.jpg https://i.redd.it/7nakjihppwy11.jpg

asddubs 6y ago

yeah I do the no-sugar thing from time to time and I noticed that pretty much all products will have at least 2 - 5% sugar in them, so I ended up just trying not to buy anything that exceeds that.

worik 6y ago

I have pretty much stopped eating processed foods. I am also a avid reader of nutrition labels. Not sure it has made much difference to me, but it lowered my food bill. The advice I follow, not sure where it si from: Eat food. Mostly plants. As unprocessed as convenient.

brianush1 6y ago
> The advice I follow, not sure where it si from Michael Pollan famously said, "Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants."
11235813213455 6y ago
exactly, I eat a lot raw leeks (the green parts are the best raw of course, for the white part, I let it a few days so it gets less 'spicy'), raw spinach, raw onion leaves, raw green cabbages or kale cabbages and a lot of fruits (clementines, oranges, pears, persimmons, and figs/medlars when it's the season). I find this food either in the nature (you gotta search a bit) or at local farm I used to eat a lot of honey, completely stopped, not even talking about other stuff like chocolate, or other processed products/meals, I stopped a long time ago, the cooking is done is my belly, no need for fanciness!

hobby-coder-guy 6y ago

Syrup is sugary. Lol

watwut 6y ago

Tomato sauce we are buying have tomatoes and salt in it, nothing else.