Superfoods

awoftam, May 17, 7:16am
"A whole new catagory of food. made up by the false health prophets to flog us unusual foods at extraordinary prices"

David Gillespie.

The more I research the more I believe this to be true. Do you really look into what you eat - and buy because you are told it is new and great for you and contains heaps of nutrients we must have (although we have survived without them to date) and get on the fad wagon, or are you more circumspect? I used to be a faddy. I wonder now at the money I wasted.
kay141, May 17, 7:20am
So true. I know kale fits into that category. Latest research seems to find that Chinese cabbage and silverbeet have more of every nutriment that kale has for less cost.
lilyfield, May 17, 7:29am
Chia seeds
awoftam, May 17, 7:29am
Yea kay141. It's like goji berries - a stimulant like coffee or ginseng. The claims of other benefits are either already in food that we eat, or unsubstantiated. Like chia seeds, activated almonds and acai berries.
awoftam, May 17, 7:30am
Yarp. Very trendy tho!
village.green, May 17, 7:40am
I agree, however if they taste good and are not astronomical in price I will buy them. At last cacao nibs are cheap (well I've found a source) and I do like coconut oil as I buy in bulk and have also found a good price and use many ways. Goji berries overrated and overpriced, don't know about chia seeds and quinoa is ridiculous in price. but vegetarian daughter likes them so will buy occasionally. I like kale but won't buy it, have grown and been given some by a friend that had so much she couldn't cope with it. Would think broccoli packs quite a punch for a reasonable price and love raw and cooked cabbage.
awoftam, May 17, 7:42am
For sure village.green. I am not saying don't eat them - variety is the spice of life after all. I just wish I could think up a fad and make bazillions lol
wheelmann, May 17, 8:17am
Get one of those little processors from the company in morning TV and everyday foods become super. I would if my everyday morning tea of donut and chocolate digestive would count.
village.green, May 17, 9:32am
Yeah I think that too but who fancies cold liquidised fruit and veges for breakfast. I don't. I need a cup of tea, well two actually and then I can't eat until 11am ish at least. If I lived in a hot country I probably could though and do like those things but not as a meal replacement. Actually I made myself a smoothie last week ostensibly for lunch with spinach, berries, yoghurt, coconut oil, cocoa powder, banana and was still really hungry afterwards, so made an omelette. It felt like I'd just had a drink, not solid food.
awoftam, May 17, 9:39am
A handful of almonds may have helped. but I get what you are saying. Soon there will be a heap of fat people running around holding nutribullets wondering what went wrong lol
awoftam, May 17, 9:39am
Well,maybe not running.
patsprat, May 17, 10:15am
Oh dear, that gave me a giggle, Awoftam. You're right of course, if we just ate all those foods instead of cramming them in in concentrated form maybe we would be healthier? I'm no expert but I'm sure our systems were made to deal with all the fibre & bulk of fruits & veg over a slower timespan. ?
nauru, May 17, 12:25pm
Well I for one, would rather eat my fruit & veges than drink them.
awoftam, May 17, 8:27pm
Me too nauru and we shouldn't eat unlimited amounts of fruit anyway. I do believe veges are pretty much okay unless one went really pigola with them however fruit does contain a fair bit of sugar. My sister in law heard that you should cut down on sugar so in true uninformed style she stopped having it in her coffee and proudly told me she was making 'healthy smoothies' of banana, apples, feijoas, oranges, yogurt and water at least once a day.
buzzy110, May 17, 11:15pm
+1. awoftam gave me a giggle as well. Great message.
buzzy110, May 17, 11:16pm
Lol. reminds me of a friend who proudly told me the same thing about bread. When asked what she used instead she said she was eating bagels! Truly uninformed as you put it.
awoftam, Jul 27, 6:20pm
Bwahahaaaaaaaa. -
. how did you keep a straight face.