Michigan Thread - all are welcome!

[Folly's place]

It's about balance! We need complex carbohydrates, and fats, and the right amino acids in our diets. And we crave fat, sugar, and salt, because these items were hard to find for most of the time our species has been here. Now that all these nutrients are so readily available we want to overeat them!
I've learned to love green tea, and iced unsweetened tea, rather than colas. It took time, but so worth it!
Now about chocolate; it's the fifth food group, right?!
Mary

 

[troyer]

Dream high fructose is your enemy, it turns into fat because it isn't natural, and your body doesn't know what to do with it and stores it as fat. My DH and son are addicted to Mountain Dew, can't get them to give it up either. It is an addiction

 

[Folly's place]

And of course fructose is 'natural'!!! It plus glucose = sucrose, the sugar in many fruits, etc.
Mary

 

[troyer]

It's about balance! We need complex carbohydrates, and fats, and the right amino acids in our diets. And we crave fat, sugar, and salt, because these items were hard to find for most of the time our species has been here. Now that all these nutrients are so readily available we want to overeat them!

I didn't know that, makes sense though.

I've learned to love green tea, and iced unsweetened tea, rather than colas. It took time, but so worth it!

When we became aware of how detrimental the regular sodas were because of the sugars, we had a dumping party and got all of it off the property. If it's offered at parties we tend to decline and ask for water instead. I have loved teas for all of my life and drink lots of it. It is very seldom that we buy pre-made tea, rather we buy bulk dry tea and make our own.

Now about chocolate; it's the fifth food group, right?!
Mary

We group it in right with all the rest of the food groups and we like to think that whoever made the food groups simply forgot about chocolate, so we handily add it ourselves. We DO NOT like Hersheys chocolate at all, in our opinion it ranks at the bottom of good chocolates. We eat a considerable amount of chocolate, but it is dark chocolate, usually 72% - 85% dark chocolate. For our chocolate drinks we get the cacao powder and add our own sweeteners if desired.

 

[Sally PB]

I read a book titled, The Case Against Sugar. OMG. What an eye opener. It is this century's tobacco, for the health problems it causes. And it's in EVERYTHING.

Like Ranch dressing. It's the 4th ingredient! I made some homemade, and both DH and I thought it was much better.

For our chocolate drinks we get the cacao powder and add our own sweeteners if desired.

Recipe?

I'm a card carrying chocolate LOVER! I told someone if DH ever leaves me, I still have chocolate. (He overheard me and said, "When Hell freezes over! And not the town in Michigan." Yup, I'm lucky. I got a good man.)

 

[Folly's place]

I too use 'real' tea, not that stuff in bottles. And home made hot cocoa is the only way!
I too like the darker chocolate, but any chocolate is better than no chocolate...
Mary

 

[Sally PB]

So glad I found kombucha! I can totally skip pop now.

 

[troyer]

Recipe?

1 T. of cacao powder per 8 ounces of water. I like raw honey as a sweetener, my wife likes raw sugar. A pinch of salt and 2 teaspoons of coconut oil. Mix all ingredients and put in the blender 10-20 seconds, this produces a frothy drink that we enjoy.

 

[aart]

I drink nothing but un-sweetened seltzer and coffee.
Ghirardelli 60% is my fav.
Have avoided most all white flours and rices for decades.
But I still eat a lot of junk too.<shrugs>


Just un-snowed a place where there was standing water, still not frozen under there.
Gonna take several days to get all the snow cleared away, gotta pace myself.

 

[snowflake]

never tried cocoa with water, I will try that.
And yes, I am all for chocolate dark is best, add a little sea salt and almonds