I also read food labels avidly - avoiding products with more than 5 ingredients or those with seed oils. But the best way to health via food is to eat foods that don't have labels! I.e., (organic, if possible) meats, eggs and produce.
How funny you should mention Janie's Mill. I buy wheat for my hens from this mill, have done now for about a year. I like their Organic Red Fife Heirloom wheat, it has high protein. I buy bulk Wheat Montana for my sour dough bread. I haven't bought store bread for about three years now. Cheers.
Thanks NancyLee, I will investigate Sunrise flour mill. I have been lately baking with einkorn flour, grown, milled by Mennonite regent ag farmers in central Pa,. brought to me in Phila suburbs by my raw milk delivery truck.
I have bought them at Christmas, or right after when the clearance prices show up, and stocked up for the year, as the budget allows. And the cans are worth saving if you're in to that. :)
Thank you for that. We love shortbread and usuaĺly buy from Cost Plus. I forwarded this to my daughter who is the baker in the family and bakes for everyone for the holidays.
Thanks for that tip. I eat mostly paleo, the non-mostly part sometimes includes cookies. My wife is gonna be on the lookout for Walkers. I'd love to find some where I'm happy with one or two!
Don't get me wrong, I can eat more than one or two, lol.
But I take supplements that should be eaten with food, and sometimes I just grab a couple Walkers cookies, and that keeps me from eating more when I'm not really hungry.
Occasionally, I eat FOUR at one time, lol.
But I buy the biggest tins with the most cookies (volume discount) and they last me longer than if I sit down with a smaller pack where I'd probably just eat the whole thing...
My family hosted a foreign exchange student from the Faroe Islands (way back in 1973!). She tasted our chocolate (must have been Hershey's!) and was NOT impressed! She felt bad for us, having to eat that nasty stuff!!
When I was in high school in the 1960's, I loved Crunch Bars. They're still around....I tried one a few months back and it was horrible, I threw it out after one bite. Maybe it was always that bad....
Bioengineered typically means GMO, but genetically modified organism sounds creepy & scary. In candies, it's the sweetener, mostly -- granulated sugar made from sugar beets, corn sweeteners, soy oils, canola, and of course all the artificial colors and "natural" flavors may be GMO origin. Note that CANE sugar, made from actual cane sugar plants hasn't gone GMO. Yet.
Stevia doesn't need sugar's downsides -- it has plenty of its own. Not the least of which is that its sweet flavor triggers the body to flood insulin into the system ... which isn't needed to balance out what the body perceives as sugar. That insulin circulates, dropping the existing blood glucose level and thereby triggering hunger. Eat more, gain weight. Extra 200 calories a day, one cookie, means 10 pounds gained in a year
If you want something sweet, eat a real cookie. Or if you want to lose weight, try a sour pickle or try several pats of butter instead. Sugar cravings may actually signal a need for animal fats.
I am not most of the time, although I should be, except when I shop for my mom. She is allergic to red dye #40 and it's amazing how many products have that in there. Including a calcium supplement. It's a white pill!?
I'm a food label reader, and I buy European produced foods at Aldi. It's eye opening.
I also read food labels avidly - avoiding products with more than 5 ingredients or those with seed oils. But the best way to health via food is to eat foods that don't have labels! I.e., (organic, if possible) meats, eggs and produce.
Buy organic from people you know eg CSAs. Too many commercial companies slap the label on foods that are not truly organic.
"Organic" is what we used to call "food".
I try to buy chocolate and cookies only from Europe.
We lived overseas for years and when we moved back my kids wouldn’t eat bread 😅 and I won’t touch American wax, I mean chocolate .
There are very good small craft chocolate makers here in the US but the mass produced stuff (except maybe Ghirardelli) is mostly crap.
The HU brand is so good, and void of garbage. Fairtrade + organic!
Yes! And there are many, many others! Castronovo, Dick Taylor, Amano, Letterpress, to name just a few…
I read it was listed as very high in heavy metals.
Was that from Consumer Reports?
Would you believe Consumer Reports?
😳
High lead levels found int he HU brand
Equal Exchange chocolate rocks!
Same. When I visit home... OMG, the bread is so delicious, and the cheese, I won't get started on the cheese...
Can you not bake your own? Janie's Mill is a regen. ag. farm in Illinois, growing and stone-milling their (many and varied) grains. www.janiesmill.com
How funny you should mention Janie's Mill. I buy wheat for my hens from this mill, have done now for about a year. I like their Organic Red Fife Heirloom wheat, it has high protein. I buy bulk Wheat Montana for my sour dough bread. I haven't bought store bread for about three years now. Cheers.
Shayne are you in Montana? I’m in SW Montana.
No Karmy, I'm in NE Kansas.
and sunrise flour mill https://sunriseflourmill.com
which raises and grinds the same heritage wheats still grown in Europe which the US abandoned in the 40's.
nancylee--There is still a concern since both wheat and corn pollinate in the air. Non organic could easily affect [infect] organic crops.
Thanks NancyLee, I will investigate Sunrise flour mill. I have been lately baking with einkorn flour, grown, milled by Mennonite regent ag farmers in central Pa,. brought to me in Phila suburbs by my raw milk delivery truck.
LOLOL alas my raw milk truck only brings milk and delish cream
Wax. You're right! Hershey's bars taste like those wax lips we used to eat at Halloween.
And don't get me started on "Fun Size."
It's supposed to be "fun" to get LESS candy?
I wasn't born yesterday.
Right about the wax, IMO. Tastes like that to me. Family brings us lots of Lidl chocolate when visiting from UK
There is Lidl in USA, and there are products made in Europe.
I know this. A Lidl not far from me. But cost (exchange rate being figured) is much greater. Tariffs perhaps?
So you don't find paraffin delicious?
/sarc-off
Fine & Raw chocolate. Check them out.
My favorite cookies are Walkers shortbread.
I can eat only one or two and be satisfied now.
I have bought them at Christmas, or right after when the clearance prices show up, and stocked up for the year, as the budget allows. And the cans are worth saving if you're in to that. :)
Yum.
True Scottish shortbread: proportions of 4,2,1. Nothing else.
When I ate wheat I made those all the time. Yummy, the buttery taste….
If you want to try making your own, here's a recipe ... Reminds me of "Biscuits With The Boss" from Ted Lasso ....
https://cravingsjournal.com/scottish-shortbread-cookies/
Thank you for that. We love shortbread and usuaĺly buy from Cost Plus. I forwarded this to my daughter who is the baker in the family and bakes for everyone for the holidays.
Thank you!
I love the title with "better than Walkers" in parentheses.
:)
Thanks for that tip. I eat mostly paleo, the non-mostly part sometimes includes cookies. My wife is gonna be on the lookout for Walkers. I'd love to find some where I'm happy with one or two!
Don't get me wrong, I can eat more than one or two, lol.
But I take supplements that should be eaten with food, and sometimes I just grab a couple Walkers cookies, and that keeps me from eating more when I'm not really hungry.
Occasionally, I eat FOUR at one time, lol.
But I buy the biggest tins with the most cookies (volume discount) and they last me longer than if I sit down with a smaller pack where I'd probably just eat the whole thing...
INGREDIENTS: wheat flour, butter, sugar, salt.
C&C could also be for coffee & cookies...
just saying, so.
TJ Maxx, Marshall's, and Publix are just a few of the stores I know of that carry them..
I found them at Krogers!
My family hosted a foreign exchange student from the Faroe Islands (way back in 1973!). She tasted our chocolate (must have been Hershey's!) and was NOT impressed! She felt bad for us, having to eat that nasty stuff!!
Everything made by Hershey’s now has ‘bioengineered ingredients’
Good luck even finding what that means….
M&Ms also...I always used to have a small bag of peanut M&Ms to stave off hunger pangs...no more.
Bio-engineered ingredients now.
When I was in high school in the 1960's, I loved Crunch Bars. They're still around....I tried one a few months back and it was horrible, I threw it out after one bite. Maybe it was always that bad....
Bioengineered typically means GMO, but genetically modified organism sounds creepy & scary. In candies, it's the sweetener, mostly -- granulated sugar made from sugar beets, corn sweeteners, soy oils, canola, and of course all the artificial colors and "natural" flavors may be GMO origin. Note that CANE sugar, made from actual cane sugar plants hasn't gone GMO. Yet.
GMO
Watch out for cadmium and lead. It’s in the soil all over the world. I’m simplifying but they can’t do anything about it.
There’s a list, google it. Ghiradell’s 86% is on the current sorta ok list. It’s not great tasting nor does it have great texture. 😢
Karen. Want to read about testing of chocolates. mamavation.com
Thanks!
Fine & Raw chocolate.
They have a healthy Nutella product as well as other items
Yes! Yummy.
Lol
European sugar less harmful than American sugar?
I never saw high fructose corn syrup on the ingredients of a European chocolate bar.
We don’t really have anything here in Australia with HFCS either.
No, me either. Just the regular sugar is sufficiently unhealthy.
Of course...but chocolate would taste terrible without it.
Do you know about Stevia? It sweetens nicely without the downsides of sugar.
Stevia doesn't need sugar's downsides -- it has plenty of its own. Not the least of which is that its sweet flavor triggers the body to flood insulin into the system ... which isn't needed to balance out what the body perceives as sugar. That insulin circulates, dropping the existing blood glucose level and thereby triggering hunger. Eat more, gain weight. Extra 200 calories a day, one cookie, means 10 pounds gained in a year
If you want something sweet, eat a real cookie. Or if you want to lose weight, try a sour pickle or try several pats of butter instead. Sugar cravings may actually signal a need for animal fats.
Stevia has had its share of problems. It was originally banned by the FDA in the 1990s.
I don't like the way it tastes.
Because they taste better, and are less sweet?
More flavor...less nasty ingredients.
I am not most of the time, although I should be, except when I shop for my mom. She is allergic to red dye #40 and it's amazing how many products have that in there. Including a calcium supplement. It's a white pill!?
Yeah, but the right shade of white is crucial… 🙄
Buying pasta made in Italy means it's non GMO. Mexican made crackers as well.
Trader Joe's pasta is made in Italy...it's the only kind I buy.