food

[familytree64]

I wonder what is in our food, I love chicken but ive noticed every time I eat chicken now it makes me ill light headed sick so no more chicken.

ive had other foods but its only the chicken.

[starveycat]

I was talking to a farmer many years ago and he showed me a colour chart for which colour you prefered Egg yolks to be. He just fed them with different feeds makes you think.

[bantam12 in reply to starveycat]

My chickens are mainly fed on corn so the egg yolks are a deeper yellow, nothing suspicious about giving chickens different foods that effect egg colour.

[Hidden in reply to starveycat]

I too know about that starveycat. I was working in a building shared by my company and a chicken farmer. Every so often he'd come into my office to call the feed company and say that the eggs were 'going pale again', and they'd put in an additive in the feed to make them brown! It's not that there's anything suspicious in doing so, only that the public do insist on brown eggs that would be exactly the same eggs if the shells were white. And in several countries I've lived in, white eggs were deemed preferable. And yet, I still like my boiled egg at breakfast to be a nice 'healthy' brown.

[Hidden]

Hi familytree64

So sorry to hear you are experiencing this, especially if you liked chicken before, but whatever it is that associates your eating it with your feeling unwell, I'm sure it's the best decision just to cut it out of your diet. I think that, happily, we have some fairly stringent rules about the production of chickens for meat in UK, but even so, eating it isn't wise if it makes you poorly.

Very best wishes.

[FredaE]

May depend on where the chicken comes from. Some of the very cheap birds from places in the far east are not reared to the standards we would like. If you want to keep eating it you might try a small portion of organically reared from a source you trust. Or if you are eating it in a ready prepared form it may be one of the other ingredients in the sauce. I knew a woman who was so sensitive to anibiotics in some animal feed that when she went on holiday she had to dose herself up with anti histamines for a week beforehand unless she knew exatly what her dinner had been fed on,

[FredaE]

I knew anotherperson who was totally allergic to black pepper and had terrible diahrea if there was even a small amount in his food. Since he also had a stoma it made life pretty awful for him

[oldwomaninpain]

being allergic (potentially fatal I've been told) to dairy, egg, in fact most any animal protein, I spend sooo much time reading ingredients labels on things I buy; can't wear wool either - had to offend my daughter who forgot and bought me a lovely pashmina for my 70th...ah well!

Mostly I start from scratch if/when I have the motivation/energy

Even something as simple as baked beans, some manufacturers use whey or milk powder in the sauce, others don't, I did read somewhere that, although Heinz beans are vegan friendly their reduced sugar ones aren't - not sure if that is true

I tried making my own, what a hoo-ha, what a failure, despite soaking the haricot beans for 12 hours, boiling as per instructions, simmering the required time, I still ended up chomping on bullets, my sauce was great though, a huge waste of a day!

Anyone out there with a good, easy b/bean recipe please let me know

[Yatzy]

I use tinned haricot beans...no soaking! Drain them and add them to a saucepan with chopped tomatoes..,,again a tin makes it easy. Season well, warm through thoroughly and serve on the usual toast. Lovely.

[oldwomaninpain in reply to Yatzy]

I will give that a go thanks