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Healthy Living Photo Thread v. What did you cook today?

^ Drooooooool.

I like grilled/roasted asparagus best, but short of boiling it I don't think that there's a bad way of cooking it. Little, young, tender, spears are awesome even raw. Mmmmm.
 
I love asparagus, it always seems so decadent. I buy it every week in Spring - I generally saute mine in butter but also make a pasta dish with asparagus, swiss brown mushrooms, cherry tomatoes and avocado which is one of my favourite things to eat.
 
I love asparagus too, but unfortunately can't get it organic around here. Believe it or not, I can taste when food isn't organic--It doesn't taste very pleasant. So, until I start to grow my own (my parents had a patch of wild asparagus on their property in the sticks--Said it was very easy to maintain), I'm SOL.
 
^^ I agree, I buy organic also. The only problem with organic is missing out on certain fruit and vegies (I can never find blood oranges for example) so I get where you're coming from.

Good quality produce is so important.
 
Simply_Live said:
^ I can actually feel the difference now, too. I went into Wegman's to buy "organic" apples and found them to be oily and generally coated with SOMEthing. I had to make sure there was an "organic" sticker on them. I ended up not buying them. My money goes to Feel Rite now.
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Most produce, esp. apples, even organic, are coated. Come on, didn't you know the wax is healthy for you?! 8( 8( 8(

(When will people realize that just because something is not unhealthy, that doesn't make it healthy? But I digress.

I'd take a picture of the oatmeal cookies I made last night but they're burnt and generally not too delicious looking. :P
 
Anyone notice that your pee smells weird after you eat asparagus? lmao
I didnt even notice it til my ex bf told me about it.
 
addictivepersona said:
Most produce, esp. apples, even organic, are coated. Come on, didn't you know the wax is healthy for you?! 8( 8( 8(
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It seems to me that this isn't done for the apples arriving at Feel Rite. I have never felt any oil on them.

It's pretty disgusting. If I wanted wax on my apples, I'd put wax on them. Of course the grocery stores are going for preservation, though.
 
Preservation and aesthetics. Did you know that something like 70-80% of fresh food fit for human consumption doesn't even make it to the supermarket shelves? It wouldn't be bought. It's either outright ugly or just not "aesthetically pleasing" enough to be bought. (Source: Either "Food Inc." or one of the other numerous documentaries on the subject of food I've seen.)

It probably is not done at Feel Rite since they get their stuff from local farmers, correct? I haven't bought much fresh produce at Feel Rite (about to change that, probably), but what I have bought (garlic and onions mainly) has touted the local farm it's from.
 
Well, during the winter, I doubt it's local, but it's still fucking delicious!

Those percentages make me very upset. I've noticed it on Daniel's farm, too, though. If we pull it out of the ground and it's not big enough or if it has animal bites or whatever, onto the ground it goes.
 
In last year's floods in Australia a lot of our state's bananas were thrown around, on the ground and about the place and in the past, fruit like that wasn't able to be sold to the public even though it was perfectly safe to eat and tasted nice. They changed the law after the floods so farmers could sell produce like this and wouldn't lose a lot of money.

Crazy how much food goes to waste in our world ...
 
Simply_Live said:
Well, during the winter, I doubt it's local, but it's still fucking delicious!
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I know there are a couple hydroponic green houses around EA, so I don't doubt there are a few that could supply to Feel Rite. When I'm in there today/tomorrow, I'll look--Still debating going frozen or fresh. 8)

Miss_vanilla said:
In last year's floods in Australia a lot of our state's bananas were thrown around, on the ground and about the place and in the past, fruit like that wasn't able to be sold to the public even though it was perfectly safe to eat and tasted nice. They changed the law after the floods so farmers could sell produce like this and wouldn't lose a lot of money.
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Wait, what happened? The floods caused bananas to drop from trees and therefore not be able to be sold? If so, that makes some sense since bugs/animals are more likely to get at the bananas when they're on the ground, but if they're on the ground for like... An hour or something before someone can get to them, I don't see why they couldn't be sold. They might be a bit bruised from the initial fall, but otherwise I'd assume they'd be perfectly edible.
 
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Ingredients: broccoli, onion, mushrooms, black beans, brown rice, garlic, and EVOO. All from fresh/dried and organic, minus the mushrooms that were just dried. ;)

I had forgotten how much better organic fresh broccoli tastes than frozen. :D

Had the choice between plastic-encased "product of USA/China" frozen broccoli and fresh, most likely more local, not-in-plastic, organic broccoli. Was a no-brainer, really. :P


(Also, just wanted to say sorry for whoring out this thread--Post moar of your tasty meals!)
 
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