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mmm - with flavours like that it could catch on. The pepsi and coke companies had better watch out, they could have some fierce competition on their hands:p

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I buy a lot of frozen veggies and use them in soups and casseroles as a sneaky way of getting my kids to eat more veggies.:)

http://www.chow.com/stories/10983

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I'm with you. However, I still can't haven't found a whole grain pasta that I can stomach.

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That's what I have to do with DH! The other night I made a "healthy" chicken pot pie and he just kind of snickered as I was cutting up the veggies. But once he tried it (the veggies )he decided they weren't too bad. He did suggest I make a bit of mash with it next time.

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My wife has decided that her favorite food is kale. It's a bit like cabbage but less exciting. She's buys pounds and pounds of the stuff, boils it up, eats the kale & drinks the water it was boiled in. To me, the stuff tastes vile, but to each, his own..

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The one I like is Hodgson Mill wholewheat with flax. I don't know if the flax has anything to do with it but it doesn't taste as "cardboardy" as some others.

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I'll grab a box next time I'm at the grocery. I seem to forget about flaxseed in the winter but I do put the meal in our breakfast smoothies that I make in the summer. My cholesterol is a little high so I'm trying to get it down naturally (but I hate fish!).

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Try going against common wisdom. Reduce the carbohydrate you eat, especially processed carbohydrate, and increase the amount of fat you eat, specifically unsaturated fat. You may be quite surprised at what happens.

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something like that, though you are not supposed to eat what they call nightshade veggies such as potatoes, peppers, avocado, and limited fruit too as apparently these contain some funky toxin and nicotine.

Unfortunately my DH is more like Dan Connor in that he likes 'man food' brightly coloured snacks and food on sticks, not a veggie in sight....not that I give him that kind of food.

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These diets might be better if they gave them a better label. Every time I see "Macrobiotic Diet" I imagine somebody cooking up a hamburger made from a clump of E. coli.

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If you follow it strictly, keep an eye on yourselves. I swear, the sickest *looking* clients I had were the strictest MBs.
You should def. read the part of the wiki on cancer. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macrobiotic_diet

You also need to take the philosophical part in, and eat a lot of unfamiliar (but not bad) things.. just thinking about those pickled plums makes my mouth water now! OK, some of them are bad. I never got on well with all the seaweeds.

I personally think Duncan Roberts is on top of it. :thumbup:
If I could get HIM to cook for me, I would!

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I don't follow a macrobiotic diet but I rarely red meat, nor chicken (unless it is hormone or antibiotic free). I do eat lamb and pork but perhaps once a week. I consume whole grains and unrefined grains. I love fruit and veggies and try to eat produce when it's in season.

I try to avoid cow's milk products (cheese, yoghurt, etc.) and consume rice milk and goat and sheep cheese.

I make vegetarian and/or vegan meals at least twice a week. I consume soy too.

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IMHO I think its just common sense.

I know people who only ate food that was grown within 20 miles of where they lived. Thats all well and good if you can live like that but the world is too commercial and we're all to contempt with sliced bread.

It all went down the pan after WW2, everything was mechanized including how food was produced and delivered to the people.

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When I was growing up we rarely had storebought fruit/veggies. We had a large garden and my papaw grew things that we didn't (usually things that took up more space but were fun for the grandkids) and we shared. We also always bought our beef from someone we knew in the area that raised it on their farm....no antibiotics back then.

I can remember many a summer day helping my mom prepare fresh produce for the freezer or cupboard...happy days. I eve

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Thats how I grew up too. Dad grew all the veg and there was an orchard just down the road for the fruit.

There is so much junk in food nowadays. I know I fourght a long battle with my step kids cuz I threw out all the cereal that was coloured or frosted. Unfortunately they tend not to eat cereal now and I think it's because they actually have to chew it. Same deal with bread. I stopped buying the sliced white bread (because to me it was basically sweet fluff) and started buying wheat bread from the bakery....costs a lot more but they don't eat nearly as much cuz it actually fills them up. Then I have a juicer, but I could go broke buying all the fruit I need to make juice for my lot even though its only one glass a day.