What's important to you and your healthy ea... - Healthy Eating
What's important to you and your healthy eating habits? this is a multiple choice and please say what other is.
103 VotersPlease select all that apply:
Avoiding ready made foods.
Cooking from scratch and speedy meals
Avoiding processed foods and those which have been pumped full of antibiotics and chemicals.
Fantastic poll, Hidden !😀👍
I think I agree with lollipop, it’s more about what you leave out. I’m thrilled to see organic so highly rated as I’m an organic farmer!
Thank you for letting us know! Organic is good.😀👍
How are you and bunny the cat getting on?
Doing great. I just had a Greek yogurt for snack this morning (2nd yogurt for the day).
Organic seems quite low on the vote to me - less than 30% doesn't seem great. I can't see how anyone can NOT vote that organic is important in the scheme of healthy eating - eating foods that may have been grown using pesticides etc even if wholefood or seasonal doesn't seem healthy to me and yes I understand that a lot of people can't afford to eat everything organic but surely it should be an aspiration...
It certainly is an aspiration for me but a couple of things get in the way for most of us, price and availability. Box schemes are helpful but not universally available and supermarkets cherry pick what they supply.
I think it would be an interesting challenge to work out how many different 100% organic meals could be made from what anyones local shops supply. I bet most would be confined to eggs, bread and bananas.
Hi jpijw, I think an organic challenge would be a great thing to do on HE so thanks for suggesting this. As you're right about supermarkets and how much control they have of market place.
Its disturbing that supermarkets are so similar whether they are in Cornwall or Scotland and I wonder if they only give the impression of offering more choices...
I think the choices given was enough for me really.
Herbs & Spices for health.
Low trans fats
Is that your kitty in the pic as its very handsome!
She is very beautiful, feral when I took her on, she is my shadow, I adore her cat girl.x
My colleague has a brown tabby called Louis who she took in as a stray along with a brown and white tabby called Percy and a grey and white Tom called fella. Percy is 15 and wasn't happy when she was displaced in the family by the new arrivals!
Cooking fresh each day, eating vegetarian foods 5x per week. Lots of pulses and beans of all variety.
My other was “enjoyment” because on previous attempts to eat healthily, not totally enjoying the diet meant it consequently failed.
Avoiding processed food, cooking from basic healthy ingredients and living a vegan lifestyle
Only ever using the microwave to defrost things!
Quick wholesome meals made from scratch plenty of seasonal veg and fruits
Like to eat seasonal products, as they tend to compliment the weather. And organic, as I don’t like to eat pesticides.
I am Gluten-Free and vegetarian, it's not easy having to cook separate meals and it's expensive.
Me too beaton. 😊
For me 'Other' sadly means 'low carb' these days as I'm on a daily dose of steroids and a low carb diet is advised to prevent excessive weight gain. I stopped eating added sugar and white carbs last October. Normally the only time I break this is when I go to hospital for blood tests at the beginning of each month and I have a hot chocolate in the cafeteria - it's become part of the ritual. Also once or twice I've had a small amount of potato or white rice when eating with friends as I don't want to make life difficult for other people. I do find it hard to take things to a more extreme level, i.e. to reach a low of 50-70 g of carbs per day as I've been advised, which means avoiding most whole grains and root vegetables and keeping fruit to a minimum. I'm finding various ways of compromising, such as buying brown rice pasta from Tesco. I find it much more palatable than most kinds of gluten-free pasta, but more importantly for me, the carb content is much lower than standard wheat pasta, and I make sure I only have a small portion.
Other - Mine is value for money. If I was rolling in I,t I wouldn't worry too much. But there always has to be a money element somewhere.
Starting from scratch with all cooking
Seasonal and fresh !
Cooking from scratch with healthy basic unprocessed food to create gluten free food. If I prepare my own meals I know they are gluten free and healthy for me as I have hashimoto thyroiditis (an autoimmune condition involving the thyroid gland where if I eat gluten my body produces antibodies to attack the gluten and my thyroid gland at the same time as it's attacking the gluten in food).
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This sounds my cooking style pamela22 and you're so right that if gluten does affect you going GF and naturally GF you feel so much better for it. So I'm glad it works for you. 😊
Oh yes i cook everything from scratch at home, but its not so easy to eat food out of the house which you can be confident is gluten free. Saying that I have noticed that more places are offering GF food on menus which is great.
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Excellent poll Jerry😀
Thanks Alicia 😀
I chose quite a few things like animal welfare, organic, cooking, baking and while foods. 😀
I voted for animal welfare, cooking from scratch, whole foods, and my other is reducing sugar and low fibre carbs because of prediabetes.
