Prolapsed vent - am I getting it right?

[spott]

heya guys, its always good to try new foods, and live healthier, but you might want to check out the back ground before you spend lots of money. unsaturated fats are great, however they saturate when heated. some of them (olive oil) don't need very high temps at all before any health benefit goes away. so for cooking, frying, etc i simply use sunflower oil, cheap and has no additives. for salads you might want to try pumkin seed oil. it has a lovely dark green colour and all those essential fatty acids and is full of flavour so you don't need to make any dressing out of it... i am really not sure about the health benefits of rapeseed oil, my grandad was a farmer and grew rapeseed, and in germany it is only used as a foodsupplents for pigs (oh, and as a substitute for diesel fuel when supplies run low(, but never for humans, and germans are very health-conscious...

[PurpleHen]

. i am really not sure about the health benefits of rapeseed oil,

 

A lot of the GI books tell you that Rapeseed Oil is the best to use for cooking when aiming for a GI diet....

[CannyCat]

I always thought that Anchor was "from the dairy pure and simple" (dum de dum)

 

We use anchor because - judging from the back of the box - it has the least amount of additives compared to all the other spreads I could find in tesco - it's just butter and vegetable oil (I'd have preferred something healthier than vegetable oil, but hey you can't have everything )

[CannyCat]

It's a good market for food - there are stalls selling bread, cheese, salami, wholefoods, etc - and some good clothes stalls too

 

For meat and fish, though, it's hard to beat the Covered Market in Oxford...

 

I really envy people who live in cities and have good food markets! In Swindon centre there isn't a single butcher, fishmonger or greengrocer - what a poor state of affairs. There is a farmers market every sunday though, which I'm going to try out this weekend.

 

Where I used to live, on the outskirts of bristol was exactly the same. We just had masses (literally) of card shops.

[Eyren]

I always thought that Anchor was "from the dairy pure and simple" (dum de dum)

 

That's the "Country Life" butter ad, surely:

 

(to the tune of "D'ye ken John Peel")

 

"It's Country Life, it's English too,

From the cows to the dairy, from the dairy home to you,

It's pure and fresh and creamy through and through,

So spread it on your toast in the morning!"

 

[CannyCat]

I always thought that Anchor was "from the dairy pure and simple" (dum de dum)

 

That's the "Country Life" butter ad, surely:

 

(to the tune of "D'ye ken John Peel")

 

"It's Country Life, it's English too,

From the cows to the dairy, from the dairy home to you,

It's pure and fresh and creamy through and through,

So spread it on your toast in the morning!"

 

 

Anchor definately use the slogan too, or have been recently (although I haven't seen any of the recent moo adverts!) - http://www.anchorsunshine.co.uk/collect/howToClaim/

[Chicken on a mission]

Any sort of fat makes you fat and the essential fats the body needs can be found naturally in oilly fish and nuts and seeds and you don't need much.

 

I actually don't bother with any sort of spread for sandwiches etc because a low fat cheese such as quark or similar has far less fat than even Diet Flora and adds that bit of wetness that a sandwich needs IMHO.

 

Try considering going butterless and adding mustard, chutney, low fat cheese or something else instead. Much tastier and much healthier although the sugar in chutney should be watched too

[Guest]

I always use hummus instead of butter or marg now - it's much nicer.

[Fleata]

we use an organic dairy free spread called Pure which is soil association certified is this any good for you?? made from sunflower oil.

 

we use it not cos we are vegans, but we try to cut down on the dairy stuff. i am a vegatarian so i like to keep the dairy intake down. But i just cant give up my Racheal organic milk from dancing cows

[Happymama]

Rape oil is the lowest in cholesterol than the other oils that remain stable at high temperatures, so you can fry your eggs and omlettes in confidence that the oil will neither burn nor contribute to your early demise.

 

Olive oil burns at high temps in the frying pan, as does butter but you can at least add a bit of rape oil to the butter to help prevent that.

 

I use Goldenfields too, but don't fry much, apart from the odd corned beef hash it's just eggs in one form or another. I put it on spud wedges in the oven to help them go brown. It's relatively tasteless, too.

 

The problem with Lurpak for me is the food miles involved. I'd rather buy something made in the next county and not use much.

[Eyren]

I hadn't thought about food miles for butter - though at least Lurpak is from the EU and not from New Zealand like Anchor!

 

We've gone back to a local organic veg box scheme that sources its produce from local farms for most of the year - they only supplement it with items from further afield when there's not much in season (mainly late winter - spring)

[bunee1]

Does anyone know where to get hemp oil or seeds? I read in Organic Life that they are very nutritious

 

Hi claret...try the yorkshire hemp company...apparently this is where gillian watsit buys hers which is then re labeled as her own we stock it in our shop (with the yorkshire hemp label) and it's lovely if not rather addictive Izzy (my daughter ) eats the seeds out of the pot with a spoon !!! if you can't find any i'll post you some its pretty light.

[The Dogmother]

Thanks Hannah, I'll do a websearch for them, but have now found some locally too

[lightworker01]

I'd like to point out, if it hasn't already been said.

 

ALL oils are bad for you, but some aren't as bad as others.

 

Rapeseed is one of the best.

[Chicken on a mission]

That's not strictly true.

 

The body does require some essential fats but it is true to say that fat=fat so have too much even of the essential ones and you are in trouble.

[lightworker01]

Yes, but nearly every cooking oil doesn't have them..

 

I have to be caerful with what I eat due to my heart.

[Happymama]

Rape oil is the lowest in cholesterol than the other oils that remain stable at high temperatures, so you can fry your eggs and omlettes in confidence that the oil will neither burn nor contribute to your early demise.

 

Olive oil burns at high temps in the frying pan, as does butter but you can at least add a bit of rape oil to the butter to help prevent that.

 

I use Goldenfields too, but don't fry much, apart from the odd corned beef hash it's just eggs in one form or another. I put it on spud wedges in the oven to help them go brown. It's relatively tasteless, too.

 

The problem with Lurpak for me is the food miles involved. I'd rather buy something made in the next county and not use much.

 

I've also discovered that Lurpak is the only dairy spread you can buy without hydrogenated fats in, because the stuff's been banned in Demark, where the stuff is made, for ages.

 

So it's food miles V health.

 

Fabulous.