Your mission, if you choose to accept, is to relax about animal fats.
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Level of Commitment: Baby Steps (“Making Strides” emotionally for some of you)
Believe me, I know this is a tough one. I used to spend a LOT of time cutting off every single little tiny bit of fat from every [...]
Tags: fats·lard·saturated fats·tallow
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Coconut oil is perhaps one of the more divisive fats/oils out there, because the mainstream puts it at the very top of the “bad fats” list, while the traditional foodie folks seek it out as the healthiEST of fats (or so it feels at times, but maybe it’s because we’re engaging in an [...]
Ah, the French know their fats. When my husband worked with a Frenchman, he reminisced about this time of year in France: “Fall is the best time of year because the food is so wonderful: the fish are fatter, the cream is plentiful, and the vegetables being harvested are some of my favorites.” Yep, he [...]
Tags: dairy·Fat Full Fall·fats·homogenization·oxidized cholesterol·saturated fats
Are you having a Fat Full Fall? If not, let’s consider switching something to full fats. Maybe your milk? Your sour cream? Your cottage cheese? Are you ready to get the flavor of real cheese back after living with 2% or (eeek) fat free cheese?
Your mission, if you choose to accept, is to consider full [...]
Tags: dairy·fat·Fat Full Fall·saturated fats
In case you’re not yet convinced to sign off of the fake butter revolution, here’s a little breakdown of your options with some links to further resources.
Butter
I could write a list of butter benefits here, it’s already been done: 20 Health Benefits of Real Butter (Thanks to Kelly for posting [...]
Tags: butter·Fat Full Fall·interesterification·margarine·saturated fats·trans fats
Your mission, if you choose to accept, is to start putting butter on your toast. And your potatoes, vegetables, in your baked goods…and anywhere else you might use margarine or a “spread” that makes some health claim or another.
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Level of Commitment: Making Strides
This might be incredibly difficult for some of you, [...]
Quick quiz: Where have you heard this phrase before?
“…as part of a diet low in saturated fat and cholesterol…”
If you ever catch a TV commercial for food or drugs – um, pretty much all of them that are low-fat or cholesterol related – you’ve heard the voiceover say this. Our culture is pretty much brainwashed [...]
Tags: saturated fats
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