Do you know what’s on your dinner plate tonight? Your salad? In your breakfast cereal? If you’re eating like most Americans, there’s an awful lot of corn and soybeans. Since we’re looking at fats this fall, here’s your mental challenge over the weekend:
Find all the places in your cupboards (just scan as you cook/eat) where corn oil (also called vegetable oil) and soybean oil are found.
Come on back on Monday for a mission to help you figure out what to do about it.
Don’t forget to hop in the Nina Planck Real Food giveaway to get a book that will help you understand these issues even better than I can. You don’t even have to go to another site for this giveaway; just leave a comment. Good luck!
There are over 35 Super Food recipes at the October Fest Carnival – will you try a cauliflower pizza crust? Pumpkin Pancakes with Pears? Use all your leftovers in a vegetable hash? Or check out the four bloggers who linked up MANY fabulous recipes in their posts: Sarah’s Musings, Titus 2 Homemaker, In This Season, and Finding Joy in my Kitchen.
What a great idea for a blog post! I was just reading my salad dressing bottle tonight wondering why I didn’t have any homemade dressing on hand and why the only good tasting commercial ones are full of the worst ingredients.
.-= Melodie´s last blog ..Super Foods Recipe Round-Up =-.
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It took me a long time on my ‘journey to better eating’ to get the soy and GMO corn out of our diet. It was hard for me to get in the habit of doing that, but now that I am, it’s easy enough. I’ve found it’s more about finding things that we can eat and like rather than a list of everything we can’t. For instance, sometimes I don’t want to deal with the solid coconut oil, so I have grapeseed oil as an alternative when I need it, rather than ‘vegetable’ oil. And Costco sells ‘real fruit’ fruit leather that’s a quick snack for the kids w/o corn syrup (though pricey, we just use it in ‘emergencies’)
We still have corn syrup solids in our hot cocoa mix, guilty pleasure that I need to find a replacement for.
.-= Cara @ Health Home and Happiness´s last blog ..Imitation: Spinach Artichoke Parmesan Dip =-.
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Katie Reply:
October 16th, 2009 at 10:57 pm
I absolutely don’t have all these out of our diets, yet, either. Just being aware helps to make baby steps away! Great tips, thank you Cara!
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Thanks for the second link, Katie!
And I love the comment you made on my blog!
Soy is in everything these days, it is so hard to avoid. I think we do a very good job by not buying pre-made products, and those we do buy are organic (therefore avoiding GMO corn and corn syrup – things like ketchup, etc. is easy to swap out) but it is still hidden in certain foods that are nearly impossible to avoid. Soy lecithin and soy oil are in so many things, even if you do buy the “purest” of the pure (i.e. buying pure hot chocolate, like Ghiradelli, it’s still made with soy lecithin, or even buying an olive oil pan spray – still has soy in it! I have one of those misto’s, but it tend to clog or empty more often than it really works well so I occasionally cheat and buy the olive oil cooking spray instead.) ANYWAY . . .
Looking forward to Monday’s post!
Best,
Sarah
.-= Sarah´s last blog ..Best of the Best =-.
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Standard American Diet to Real Food- What I did « Health, Home, & Happiness // Jun 28, 2010 at 6:31 am
[...] Cut out corn syrup: There’s nothing good in corn syrup. In addition to containing GMOs (in non organic) it’s much more processed than sugar. Jam, fake syrup, and ketchup are some sources of corn syrup that were the last to leave my house. It still makes its way in every once in a while, but I’m generally not the one bringing it in ~grin~ [...]