A non-processed diet, where to start...?!


Question: A non-processed diet, where to start...?
I would like to start dramatically cutting out processed foods from my diet. I probably wont go all out, I mean I will eat a few processed items every now and then, it's just bound to happen and I don't want to end up obsessive about every little thing but i'd like to reduce the amount significantly.

I'm sixteen, I obviously live at home and with 5 other people who aren't on the same diet, I'd have to make separate meals or make one for my entire family - so I'll need recipes. Are there any recipe books or websites that would help? Also what kind of bread is least processed? Is it better to make it at home? (I have a bread maker)

I guess i'm just a bit clueless. Any advice or a point in the right direction would be appreciated.

Answers:

You’re sixteen and obviously live at home?
That is not so obvious to me.
I got a good job at 16 and left home...so...
(I furthered my education through the work/study banking system).
My mother was always talking about leaving home at 17 so I guess I just wanted to shut her up about this.
She started working at 12 and needed 5 years to save enough money to finally move away.
I started working at 16 and did not need any savings to squat a house with no hot water or electricity. I used camping gear (butane gas cartridges) to heat some water for my bath and to get hot milk for my breakfast and I used candles for light in the evening (not really romantic, more like spooky and old movie chandelier theme).

And then I moved on to a nice apartment with an older woman who just wanted somebody else to be there, just in case.

You might still live at your parents’ house just because you’re on the internet so you have electricity and internet connection.

In the meantime, while you’re stuck at home, you don’t have to make separate meals for other people in your family. Make a healthy meal for yourself, and they can add seconds and third (twice/thrice the calories you’re having), appetizers before (nuts and such), cheese, desert (ice cream) and booze.

If you have a bread maker, make your own bread, so you can make it exactly the way you like it...I like to add half a banana to my bread and some fruit pulp (I press my fruit juices and keep the pulp for my bread) or some raisins. But it is not processed so you’re not using conservatives and it won’t last more than a few days...but it’s good if you have 5 other voracious people to eat it. Make your own jam too. A bread maker usually has a setting for jams and the combination of homemade jam and homemade bread is awesome. Awesome enough to be eaten in a few days as it will not last much longer because you’re not using preservatives.

Make sure to use bread flour and the right kind of yeast. You have the active dry yeast and the rapid rise yeast...follow your bread machine instructions depending on the kind of bread you want to make.



I was about to say that is impossible. You cannot cut out processed foods out of your diet completely but you can minimize how much you consume. The best way to eliminate over half of the processed foods you eat is to shop on the outside of the store instead of the Isles. Pretty much every single product on those shelves are processed. The lest processed type of bread is the darkest whole grain breads. The lighter they are the more bleached and processed they are. By baking bread at home you won't eliminate the processed element. This is because you have to buy processed ingredients to make the bread.

Organic stuff can be processed and often is but the only difference is that it wasn't grown or fed with hormones, antibiotics and pesticides.




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