what do I put on my potato and rice now?
I have gone dairy free. I read about canola and how it is actually an oil made from the rapeseed plant and can cause lots of health problems. I used to live in NC and didn’t eat organic or necessarily healthy. Back then I put slabs of Parkay Margarine on my baked potato or my rice. Then I went mostly organic, but could never find a spread I liked, so i was using something called Canola Harvest… then I did the research on the canola…. so then I bought Horizon butter. Then I went dairy free altogether…. so at the natural store there was a vegan spread called Earth Balance, so I bought that. Now I see it also has canola oil in it… what to do? what is a good replacement for margarine that does not contain milk or canola? does anything like that exist? I do not buy things made from GMO anymore (so most soy is out) or palm oil which is collected in a way that is damaging to the forests…. so any suggestions?
It sounds like you are eliminating items from your diet based on ethical arguments. It also sounds like you are eliminating items from your diet based on scientific arguments.
Consider that there is an argument; (ethical, scientific, specialized health regimen, etc.) for anything you could eat. Some people eat a lot of soy as a substitute for unhealthy stuff. Some people avoid soy because of its health effects.
Be careful on this journey to balance your search for knowledge and justice against the importance of a healthy diet and a reasonable amount of attention paid to food and food alone. You will want some time and energy to spend on other things in life.
I do not read that you are a vegetarian. I discovered this by accident and found it delicious. Boil turkey wings as if you are making broth. Season them to taste.
After you eat the turkey wings, save the juice and refrigerate or freeze it. This will separate into several layers. One will be the fat. One will be the soupy seasoning that did not dissolve with heat. One will be broth. There will be a layer of jelly.
I find this layer of jelly goes well with rice or potatoes in place of butter.
Americans going vegetarian are weighing a lot of conflicting advice on how to find a good diet. Too much of the advice comes from advertisers each trying to sell their supplement as the most important supplement, the one that does 30 duties instead of just one or two. We often miss out on something and you can tell by looking. They often have an imbalance that shows in dry skin, a boney quality etc.
Try talking to people who come from a long standing vegetarian culture. Shop, cook and eat with them. This will be a culture with centuries of vegetarian eating who have developed time tested techniques for balancing a diet. In this way you get good nutrition and variety in your eating habits.
Don’t convert religions quickly in the process. Friendship is a good trade for friendship.
Normal Borlaug is an agricultural scientist and the father of the Green Revolution, directly responsible for saving over a billion lives from starvation in the third world through the spread and advance of genetically modified crops and technology. He’s spent his life saving people and improving the world. This clip is from the Penn and Teller: Bullshit! episode Eat This! from Season 1, on diets and world hunger. He’s truly a great, great person, and I wanted to share the word, as far too few people know about Borlaug and his work.
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