Common Sense need not apply

[chainedbarista]

The woman proceeds to ask me if our products contain sulfites or nitrates...

best bet, since sliced meats are served on your sandwiches (if they come from a larger 'hunk' of meat with any form of processing) is to say, most likely, since most processed meats (not sure about cheeses, they may or may not have nitrates/sulfites) tend to use them as preservatives for flavor and the like.

sulfites, that i don't know; i know that some wines contain them, but as far as other foods go, i'm not sure.

if she's that concerned about additives, she needs to make her own food at home, starting with raising the beasts for meat herself.

[Igorina]

Um
I have to get the recipe, but a friend of a friend makes brownies with no flour.
Yep. No flour. She makes em with beans Low GI! Woot!

*reminds self to get recipe, dammit!*

I have a gluten-free brownie recipe that uses about 7 eggs and two cups of ground almonds.

I said it was gluten-free, not that it would help you lose weight....

They're delicious plain or topped with raspberry jelly.

[chainedbarista]

THem HFCS Can kiss my fat white ass.

#1 almost blown...

good thing i just swallowed my tea, otherwise...

[Tee]

If you want to cut out high fructose corn syrup, you need to drink basically only water or homemade drinks
<ontopic>

I'm allergic to corn, and that stuff is in EVERYTHING.

...

I miss my Mountain Dew.

If ya want something healthy, either make it ya self, or go someplace that specifically serves that type of food!

[Rapscallion]

Ah, good old HFCS. It was in a minority of our products, and a scare hit the UK about a year ago about intolerance to this product. Message boards full of people desperate to find something else wrong with themselves were buzzing with the condition.

We had a few calls from people convinced they had this intolerance. Our Customer Services coordinator pointed out a few salient factors. There are no medically proven cases of adult-onset HFCS intolerance. The tests involved to determine the condition involve liver and gut biopsies in an invasive procedure. Oh, and anyone with the condition if it's undiagnosed and not treated dies by the age of three.

He shut quite a number of them up dead with that. He enjoyed himself immensely.

In the meantime, I was in the department on Thursday and talking to a customer who wanted to know the provenance of certain items. One of the main things she needed were products that were free from lactose, wheat, yeast, nuts, and gluten. Her business partner is apparently afeared of anything that people can be intolerant to. I sympathised as she told me that the partner in question expected assurances that the products were able to be guaranteed free of any hint of these products.

"Tell him what I tell people expecting that from us."

"What's that?"

"There's no such animal. In short, the products are picked in fields where they are grown near other crops. They are transported on lorries to places where they are treated and packed, and they are then sent overseas on huge superfreighters with other products, especially those you wish to avoid. In this warehouse, they are stored in racking near each other, but there is no guarantee that particulate matter from something up in the racking won't contaminate anything below."

"..."

"In short, if someone could track the products from source and ensure complete freedom from contamination, then they could name their price. In the meantime, nobody will give the sort of assurances you seek because of liability issues, and you know how interested people can be in money when they think their life has been endangered."

"I'll ... think about using that."

Always fun.

Rapscallion

[Imogene]

If you want to cut out high fructose corn syrup, you need to drink basically only water or homemade drinks

*blinks at all the info from everyone on avoiding HFCS* Well, thank you everyone. I've been paying close attention to ingredient labels when I buy stuffs for drinking. So long as I go for the higher end, organic juices, I've avoided HFCS as far as the ingredients say. If anyone can tell me of any other ingredients that are used on labels that are HFCS, but are not listed as such...?

I can't hardly eat a lot of the things I used to shovel down my throat... Chocolate? Only dark, organic chocolate interests me, everything else tastes wrong.
Milk? Even skim tastes too fat.
Soda? I can drink maybe a quarter of a 20 oz bottle before getting sick in my head...
Donuts don't even call out to me any longer.
Pizza's an ocassional thing, but it's fairly rare as well.

[BookstoreEscapee]

If anyone can tell me of any other ingredients that are used on labels that are HFCS, but are not listed as such...?

I'm not sure there are alternate names for HFCS, but there are plenty of different names for sugar in general. Here's some other info on HFCS, though.
http://www.wikihow.com/Avoid-High-Fructose-Corn-Syrup

[CrazedClerkthe2nd]

Good grief.

I eat smart, but when I do junk food (which is not that often), I at least do it right. Which is to say I take it as it is because I go in expecting non-healthy stuff.

[Sliceanddice]

there is such a thing as baked donut, there is no tranfat, using shortening free oil or peanut oil (why there is such a thing as baked donut because though people like me love peanut oil [ i swear to god, i love it in an unhealthy way] some have siver enough allergys to be unable to eat it) but seeing as low carb would be a bagel... she was weird..... now i want a peanut oil fried sugar donut...

[Andara Bledin]

[ i swear to god, i love it in an unhealthy way]

..... kinky.

^-.-^

[Metody]

Um
I have to get the recipe, but a friend of a friend makes brownies with no flour.
Yep. No flour. She makes em with beans Low GI! Woot!

*reminds self to get recipe, dammit!*

Black Bean Brownies


Ingredients:

1 box any commercial prepared brownie mix
1 15.5-ounce can black beans

Directions:

Open can of beans
Place can's contents, including liquid, in blender. Blend.
Mix thoroughly with brownie mix. (No eggs, oil or other ingredients needed.)
Place in oiled baking pan.
Bake according to package directions. Cool and serve.

Approximately 100 calories per brownie, which are also low-fat and high fiber.

Taken from http://www.foodfit.com/ffcommunity/t...?TOPIC_ID=1178

Or, if you prefer to make them from scratch, try these: http://www.101cookbooks.com/archives...es-recipe.html


I've made the first recipe for my roommates. As of yet, they don't know the secret ingredient, and they like them just fine. Gas won't be a problem, provided you're eating only a serving or two of the brownies at a time.

[iradney]

Metody, I love you so much right now.
In a completely non-creepy way of course...

[FuzzyKitten99]

Black Bean Brownies


Ingredients:

1 box any commercial prepared brownie mix
1 15.5-ounce can black beans

Directions:

Open can of beans
Place can's contents, including liquid, in blender. Blend.
Mix thoroughly with brownie mix. (No eggs, oil or other ingredients needed.)
Place in oiled baking pan.
Bake according to package directions. Cool and serve.

Approximately 100 calories per brownie, which are also low-fat and high fiber.

Taken from http://www.foodfit.com/ffcommunity/t...?TOPIC_ID=1178

Or, if you prefer to make them from scratch, try these: http://www.101cookbooks.com/archives...es-recipe.html


I've made the first recipe for my roommates. As of yet, they don't know the secret ingredient, and they like them just fine. Gas won't be a problem, provided you're eating only a serving or two of the brownies at a time.

the problem is, commercially prepared brownie mix contains flour... but the recipe that is in the link doesn't.

[Metody]

the problem is, commercially prepared brownie mix contains flour... but the recipe that is in the link doesn't.

They're not the same recipe - one's made with brownie mix and a can of beans, the other contains a whole variety of from-scratch ingredients. You won't end up with the same results - but you wouldn't end up with the same results anyway, if you're comparing from-scratch and from-a-mix brownies.

But really, that first recipe is great. Just make sure you blend the beans thoroughly. THe last thing you want is someone announcing they've found part of a bug in your brownie. It's very hard to explain that no, no, it's fine - that's just a bean skin. Trust me, people are not understanding.

[Primer]

Oh, and anyone with the condition if it's undiagnosed and not treated dies by the age of three.

He shut quite a number of them up dead with that.

Sounds like they had the condition after all...