Cooking From Scratch

RE: Cooking From Scratch Post by caraing (40) | (10/09/2006) Profile | Contact Here! Here!! Great big cheers for natural cooking. My dh will not eat anything with preservatives. I cook everything from scratch. He has learned to cook as well and we make some fab meals. I too click off the recipe as soon as I see the ingredient listed that is a prepackaged food. People it is easy to cook. I even make my own rice a roni type dish and it comes out excellent. keep on cooking and enjoy! RE: Cooking From Scratch Post by lyndagayle62 (92) | (10/08/2006) Profile | Blog! | Contact AMEN, Nancy!!! When I married, my husband seemed so PICKY about my relying on "Helper" packages/boxes, and it took me YEARS to finally agree with him, but he was SO-o-o-o-o RIGHT. ALL of my life my mom had "smoothered" and "slathered" my foods with every possible thing from the shelves/advertisements/"new" recipes by food mfrs. trying to increase their profits, even to the detrement of human health!! (She meant well in trying to present "new" dishes). Once I submitted to his requests to just let the food be "natural", it was the difference between black and white for me. It was a SHOCK to see what each food tasted like. He used a little lemon ju. on salads, a tiny amount of jelly in peanut butter sandwiches(I'd been taught as a young girl to "drown" the taste of peanut butter with jelly). I became overweight at a very early age and realized too late that this contributed to it and health issues I had to recover from. The high SALT and even the MSG (monosodium glutamate)in such "helpers" caused severe headaches, possibly contributing to my severe ongoing chronic Migraines even to the present, and to all sorts of vascular/blood disorders I had to overcome, by the grace of God, and better choices in food/drink. People perish from lack of knowledge too often. Often the contents of "helper" packages are so full of things that are not only unhealthy but inferior in quality and added as "fillers" to boost the mfgrs profits ! We just can't improve upon what God planned for His Creation to eat/drink! We must reason, be reasonable, and come to the knowledge of the truth of a matter in order to be set free from our wrong beliefs, even if passed on from previous generations. It was a GREAT blessing to resist the temptation to purchase all that junk, which might please the taste buds, get rave reviews, and entertain the eyes, but which can slow our body down and even KILL us with all sorts of disorders and lowered resistance. Medical doctors everywhere are now starting to listen to their conscience and speak out about these things, previously remaining silent since our ignorance too often paid their salaries/fees/vacations, etc., but who know of the validity in what SOME alternative medicine, and background information is being poured out to the public, exposing the outright LIES and greed involved. It is the opinion/goal of alternative information to inform us of how this society got so "off track" and how to get back "on track" to better physical, mental, emotional and spiritual health through truths/logic/proofs. Many sites, such as Dr. Mercola.com, offer understandable technical advice about why we should change our wrong beliefs in order to improve ourselves. Many of these doctors offer MUCH better alternatives than prescriptive medicines. I was slow to accept them but have come to understand that MUCH of what they are telling us is so very true. God bless you for this truth!