what DON'T you eat?
Posted by owalkerjillo on Apr 16, 2007 · Member since Oct 2006 · 428 posts
Obviously we all obstain from eating animals and a good number of us from animal products. But other than that, what don't you eat? I know that a lot of people don't eat gluten for health reasons or other reasons but I'm just wondering. What do YOU not eat and why have you decided not to? was it an allergy or was it a choice you made for some reason?
I try my best to avoid hydrogenated oils...
I'm glad there's a lot of companies out there starting to make their snacks/products without it (Nature's Promise, Newmans, etc).
I've left behind industrially made cakes, cookies, and other junk-type foods: the chips, cheese curls, and other crud. I just don't buy them anymore. I have reached the point where I can walk down those aisles in the supermarket and the "treats" simply don't make any impression. I started out trying to lose weight and soon lost interest in them at all. My DH still buys some cookies for his breakfast (ugh!) but I've learned to think of them as "his", as if they were nothing to do with me. Once in a great while I will crave chocolate but not as often as before. I've learned to ignore anything that comes in a large, brightly-coloured plastic bag with BIG CAPITALS all over it! ;D
Last week I bought DH a package of commercially-made "madeleines" (UK fairy cakes) and tasted one...and it tasted stale to me. DH said they were fine. I guess I've gotten so far away from those flavours that I could actually taste the preservatives and junk.
And soda. I will sometimes buy it if someone is coming over for a meal and I know they don't drink wine, but I object strongly to buying coloured sugar water! And I have discovered it upsets my stomach no end, since I stopped drinking it.
Margarine that isn't melted. (yucky!)
Ketchup (aka Catsup) (Just don't like it)
Gelatin (I only mention this because the huge number of people who have said "Oh, you're vegetarian? I don't know if we have anything vegetarian . . . ? Oh, yeah, we have Jell-o!" ::))
I try to avoid hydrogenated stuff.
That's about it - if it's vegetarian, I usually like it!
I try to not eat anything with high frutose corn syrup in it. But it's in almost every kind of commercial product! I also try to avoid trans-fats. So that eliminates most commercial bakery goods and junk food. My DH loves to make bread. He's been making the Vegan wheat bread recipe from here and it's so much better than any whole wheat bread we could buy at the store. I'm trying to lose weight so cookies, cupcakes, brownies :'( and other cakes are off my menu for the immediate future. When I get down to "goal weight" (50 pounds gone, 40-50 to go!), they'll be severly limited in my diet.
I try to not eat anything with high frutose corn syrup in it. But it's in almost every kind of commercial product!
I hate to show my ignorance, but how is HFCS worse than say, rice syrup which is also a sugar concentrated from a starch? Is it metabolized too fast, has chemicals? I'm sorry, but I'm clueless on this one.
Thanks :)
HFCS is like supercharged sugar, and it has many potential health detriments, like heart disease and high cholesterol. Here is an article: http://www.thenutritionreporter.com/fructose_dangers.html
I'm not sure about the source of this article, but I've heard this from many different sources.
I avoid it like the plague. I also like to avoid trans-fats, and anything with an ingredient that has more than five syllables.
I eat them, but I try to avoid white floured breads and pastas and go for the whole grain. Usually it's' only when I eat away from home that I eat the whites.
hydrogenated oils
I've also completely weaned myself off artificial sweeteners. I realize now that I had built up a tolerance for sweet because I was using Splenda so much. Now that I am off it, I like stuff WAY less sweet than before. I actually can't believe I was putting that stuff in my body! :P
As a rule I try not to let anything with HFCS or partially hydrogenated oils into the house. I am not perfect but I am pretty damn close.
BUT - my son is a freaking juice hound. My rules are it has to be JUST juice and we always cut it 50/50 with water and we limit how much he can have a day. Today we were at the store and he wanted white grape juice but they didn't have any without splenda so I bought white cranberry peach. I didn't read the ingredients because DUH I figured it was JUICE although I thought cranberry juice always contained SUGAR so I did glance at the calorie info and it was lower than grape juice. Sugared juice with lower calories = maybe better than no sugar. Maybe. So I get home and pour him a glass and then he wants another and I was going to show him the label and say "See, this says SUGAR so you shouldn't drink too much" and THEN I saw the label said HFCS.
On the one hand I feel like the dumbest person on the planet because I always, always, always read labels and this time I didn't!
On the other, I can't help but wonder, it has THE EVIL and yet it has, like, 50 calories less per cup.
So now I don't know what to think!
Sometimes it is just easier not to think which I guess is why most of the developed world eats according to just that principle. ;)
Other than THAT I am picky about pastas, breads, and so on that contain all or mostly whole grains, although we do occasionally indulge in pure white but so yummy crusty italian bread... or white pasta. But if they made WW pasta in my favorite shape (radiatore) we'd probably never buy white pasta.
HFCS, hydrogenated oils, white bread, and olives and cilantro because I find them repulsive.
veganaise.
if i'm checking out recipes and i see the word veganaise, i automatically go to the next one
i dont eat anything with hydrogenated oils in it, and i try to avoid salt at all costs...for personal reasons. also, i prefer to have all whole grains at all times just because theyre better for you.
HFCS, Trans fats, Non-Organic ingredients (as much as possible), Non-Organic produce, hydrogenated oils, any artificial sweeteners, any overly processed foods, basically ANYTHING with too many ingredients listed on the package/can/box....other then that, I still find plenty of great stuff to eat. I probably eat more of a variety of things now that I'm vegan then when I was an omni, or for that matter even when I first became a veggie.
HFCS, Trans fats, Non-Organic ingredients (as much as possible), Non-Organic produce, hydrogenated oils, any artificial sweeteners, any overly processed foods, basically ANYTHING with too many ingredients listed on the package/can/box....
Ditto!
I completely or near-completely avoid: Hydrogenated fats, artificial sweeteners, soda
I try to avoid: any product by a multinational company with no ethical values (Kraft, etc.)
and I keep these things in moderation: refined/added sugars, double/triple/quadruple-packaged food, processed foods, unnecessary additives, coffee/juice/teabags/etc, and ready-to-eat foods.
Other than that I just don't eat what I don't like (capers, licorice, fennel, caraway, mushrooms, dates, etc.)
No soda, or artificial sweeteners. I also try to avoid processed foods.
Thanks a bunch for the HFCS info! That was a great article! 8)
I forgot to mention- I also don't eat (if I can avoid it)
Canned Peas
Canned Corn
It's a childhood thing - they still taste as yucky to me as they did in gradeschool! Actually, all my vegetarian "don't eats" are gradeschool holdouts!
Anything that is a white glob or liquid (veganaise, plain soy yogurt, the vegan equivalent of sour cream, I don't add vegan "butter" to my toast, and I don't like to drink plain nut milks (okay for baking).
I've always disliked whitish globby stuff :P
I've always disliked whitish globby stuff :P
I love whitish globby stuff! 8)
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