It never fails to shock me how people feel like crap and I did for ever and then I find the source and I do research and about this neuro toxin they call MSG or carageenan or maltodextin or dextrin or the many many names it goes by this additive that they are adding to our food that is making so many people feel like crap yet they have no idea why and then to make matters worse if they do attempt to take this toxin out of their diet they then are misled by the food industry its sickening!! I was checking a person out at the register the other day and I saw lays kettle cooked salt and vinegar 'all natural NO MSG" on the label!!! I was doubtful but wanted to take a look since I can not have anything with any flavorings they automatically add MSG or whatever they call it that day. So a few days later when I had a moment I looked at the label maltodextrin is listed on the label .....SERIOUSLY???? What is wrong with these companies and why are they allowed to get away with this? Oh thats right MSG is a "natural" substance therefore not regulated so well however it I read some where its outlawed in Europe they realized the link to autisim and brain leasions and all the other health issues I am not 100% on the accuracy of the banning it was only one story that I read and I do not know how accurate it was but it would be nice if it was true. I also heard yesterday that in Peru that they are very safe with their food supply with their pesticides and wont import any thing anything from any country that does the crap to their food that we do. My son told me that if you buy cheap flour they add chicken feathers to bulk it up!!!!! OH MY! Sickens me what they do to our food and I am just getting so that when I sell like the danishes I see the long list of ingredients when I make them they just do not have all that crap i am just getting so I don't want all that junk in my body. We were looking for a recipe at the store yesterday for sloppy joes we looked at the can green peppers, onions, sugar, chili powder, tomato, then of course chemicals for manwich not terrible gwar gum what is that? A filler I assume. So we made it got a recipe off all recipes tasted so much better! No fillers no chemicals no Manwich does not have msg its not that bad chemical wise but why add all the junk if you dont have to? Making it didn't take long at all and tasted soooo much better!
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I did say something yesterday about not having a headache that made me tired and knocked me out well....today is the day. Went to bed with one last night and woke up with it still in the morning. Though it STILL was not as bad as in days gone by bugger was making me tired I came home from work and had a good old fashioned hour and a half nap. I feel dragged out now but heads better. I can not escape them they are part of who I am but I can make them more tolerable and this is what I have done.
Most of the people I know get that the MSG reaction is real see the change in me and are happy for me I think my husband feels the same way has paid for countess things to help me, massages, accupuncture, chiropractors, ect. yet i think he in some ways thinks this is hokey or somethng I don't know. Same with the nitrates or other things that are triggers he just does not get it. We own a store so the other day brings home a CASE, did a say a CASE of chicken cordon bleu OMG I cant eat the ham because of the nitrates and they have dextrose in them!! Ok really this is not helping here! Then yesterday brings home bagels forgets that I said that the cranberry have msg I ate them they tasted weird to me btw because I am getting used to all natural. Well this whole thing is hard I wish people around me Yesterday I had a migraine and that was the bad but the good was that I could get rid of it at a certain point not right away I had to take a fiorinal then it just wouldn't leave so I had to take a maxalt. It wasn't knocking me out or making me so tired at all but I just got sick of it. I had a night where I very vivid dreams and this seems to be quite often the precursor to a migraine at times. Here is the thing Thanksgiving was allot of work so was the next day I worked my tail off cleaning up from the mess of the day before and then getting decorations out and then we bought a new TV so that was a ton of work leading up to me steaming up the living room carpet at 10pm. I have now gone for about 2 weeks I think with out a headache this is big for me but the ones that I have had they do not kill me. And the best thing is I never need naps any more and that is incredible I get so much more done. Makes me feel like such a better person. I got most of my Christmas presents wrapped today have to figure out what else I need to get done but I am way ahead of the game and its an incredible feeling. So I just need to stay this course. Problem is some thigs take much more time and much more clean up so this is a bad with the good.. This week I am trying a recipe for blueberry baked oatmeal you then can cut it and warm up pieces for breakfast great antioxidants and filling
Thanksgiving is over time to get all the Christmas stuff up. The nice thing about this year is that I feel so good that I have the ENERGY to want to do all of this and that makes all the difference in the world. All of the food that I made yesterday was of course MSG free I added no extra broth or bullion to anything because remember that the bullion has MSG in it. Let me tell you my gravy came out wonderful I added wine and seasonings and it was so good! The turkey came out the best I have ever made but I will say that is shear luck I was not thrilled with my homemade rolls I will work on that I think I rolled them in to much flour. I also made cranberry orange and blueberry muffins for breakfast. I really wanted to pick up both muffins and brown and serve rolls to make my life easier I cooked for two days but as I real every label geez...high fructose corn syrup in the rolls not that it is a headache trigger but just not that good for you and then when you add the preservatives mine are flour yeast, milk, and an egg wash I can read these ingredients. I am not saying I will never go the easy route ever again but I really am leaning I like feeling this good and then as I read all the chemicals in these foods ugh makes me think!! I saw a friends post on FB about how she has to sleep after her thanksgiving meal every year this year she drank allot of water first but still did I did not at all feel tired this year and I ate ALLOT!! Makes me wonder if she had allot of chemicals in her food and especially MSG because that is how I always felt before. I just do not feel that way any more I got my kitchen cleaned up dishwasher ran like 4x and you know before that would have exhausted me I would have given up and not have done that last unload and reload but this year it was easy. I used to think I was lazy but now I just think all those chemicals just drained me of so much I had nothing left to give. I am thinking now that getting the christmas stuff out should be a breeze since it always used to be so hard for me before. Life is good now and I certainly am not taking it for g Almost thanks giving I feel a bit like I am on little house on the prairie making all my things from scratch with no chemicals and I am loving it!! I feel so good I have very few headaches and the ones that I have go away so easy this is just a new life for me!! I made home made butter nut squash today froze it for thanksgiving so I would have less dishes to do on Thanksgiving. I am currently in the middle of making peanut butter, banana, oat chocolate chip breakfast cookies to have for me and my husband for work I know yum right!! I found this recipe on pintrest the reason I am blogging in the middle of making this is that it calls for applesauce and I don't have any so I am making it waiting for the apples to cook down, hence the little house on the prairie feeling for me!! These seem like they will be yummy and filling and for any one that needs it they are gluten free. I froze the rest of the apple muffins I made this will be handy to have a stash of stuff for breakfast to grab and go. I am making homemade salt scrub for my friends for christmas presents so easy coarse sea salt olive oil and essential oil no bad chemicals!
So at the beginning of this blog I said that I was going to talk about cleaning products. It seems to me that we are wrecking our environment and wrecking our bodies with all the additived in our foods so lets try some easier on the environment cleaning products. My reason for using them is simple I touch them there fore what touches your skin goes into your bloodstream. I am not perfect some chemicals just plain work better! I'm honest here!! BUT I try to use homemade things when I can, this is what I use, I use in the kitchen...a mixture of alcohol, a few drops of dawn dish soap and water I fill up a spray bottle mostly to the edge of the part where it curves (yea I know real scientific) add alcohol to the top and then a few drops of dawn dish soap. It cleans stainless so well windows with out streaking counters especially granet very well. Plus it kills germs. I use vinegar allot as well it works well as a substitute for jet dry in the dishwasher put a bow of it in your microwave and heat it and you will wipe it clean with no problem!! I use it just about straight in my bathroom I add very little water shines sinks and tubs very well!! I clean the bathroom floor with it. I use Murphys oil soap on my hard wood that is all natural and shines my cupboards so well!! Have to say I am so happy how good i have been feeling!!! I feel like one i say it out loud I am going to curse myself but I know its all the things I am doing and the better I feel the more i want to not eat the stuff that makes me feel like crap. I discovered a makeup foundation that I can use that I like as well that has no parabens and no MSG in it its netrogena also Almay looks good too both are around $12-$15 much cheaper than the $30 at Ulta though I am sure I would like the kind at Ulta much better it is just not in my budget right now. Though I have had headaches they are dull and annoying they are from my neck BUT this is the difference they don't make me tired spaced out and generally suck my energy like before. They are just an inconvenience and this I can live with. The muscles in my neck get terribly tight my husband gave me a really good neck massage and it did help so much I need to get ahold of my massage therapist I try to get one about every other month or so again its a matter of cost. Peppermint oil helps a great deal i can put it on my neck before bed or even before work and it will make the pain go away for a little while. I really need to do yoga I have tried this before and it has helped finding the time or MAKING the time will help also meditating helps but I do not do this often enough.
So its back to the food I am making most things my self processed foods are not an option any more. Gosh when you look at a list of all the ingredients on so may foods holy chemicals! Msg aside I don't know if any of those other things are bothering me and what the heck they are! So my husband will kill me for saying this but he has gotten scarry overweight in my opinion so we are trying to eat healthy so since we own a grocery store you would think it would be easy but its not because we are in an area that people want high fat high calorie foods and this is what I sell. He eats a banana for breakfast and this is good but he gets tired of it so today I made a healthy muffin to take to work for us her is the recipie... 1/2 cup butter 1 1/2 sugar 1 egg 3 egg whites 4 cups flour 1 cup oatmeal 1 1/2t baking powder, salt 2 tsp cinn. 2 cups apple cider 2 cups chopped apples set oven at 375 cream butter and sugar add eggs and cream thoroughly sift dry ingredients add apple cider stir in apples and oats bake for about 15 min So no matter what I do I can not get rid of the "monthly migraine" this I am learning. Though the steps I am taking have made them much more bearable and I can function through them unlike times in the past. I have had a nagging dull headache that erupts into worse since my period started on Friday BUT I have not had one day when I am down for the count and honestly have not even needed really long like hour or more naps like if I needed one and I dont think that I have since Friday they are like 10 or 15 minute. So this is HUGE. The progesterone cream is one of the best things that I have done for myself and again I got it at www.vitacost.com this site has saved me so much money for things like that. The kind that I get is source natural progesterone cream of course its paraben free. I use 1/2 tsp 2x a day for 21 days and then I also take chasteberry extract 2x a day, and of course all my dietary changes it all helps. Of course with me nothing seems to take these terrible things away but if I can ease them and stop them from ruining my life then this is at least something. I think for me it will be a sweat pants day!! This place is trashed and I need to clean and I will I dont feel 100% so I won't be kicking off any big exercise plans like I wanted but I will walk the dogs and that is something. I will make sauce and then lasagna and of course laundry and I hope to get a movie in with Jake. I guess that is much better than what it would have been like before for me I would have been on the couch all day. So here is
As I have discussed before I saw that the foundation that I bought that I liked so much the physicians formula has dextrose in it yet another code word for MSG i thought since I have been feeling very good this week I would give it a test whirl . (The Tuesday headache went away fast after all w a bit of fiorinal ) I have been very good with my diet all week no missteps now a thing to consider and this is something to think about for the Tuesday headache as well is that we have had this big bad hurricane come through did not affect us here to bad but they also said that they recorded the lowest low ever for the barometric pressure and that does effect my head today its raining and just yucky out and sometimes that does affect them. So I am not completely sure but its not storming so I am thinking its the makeup. I guess I will buy the kind at Ulta because its worth the $30 not to be guessing what is causing today's pain.
So we make bread at our store and today I was looking at the ingredients and in one kind I was shocked to see dextrose listed in the ingredient list!!! REALLY!! Its the tunnel bread like sub rolls OMG why? This is so hard to keep up on. All in all I am very happy with the new shampoo and conditioner and LOVE the Paul Newmans salad dressings and the nice thing I was talking to my sales man and he said that they come in packets I would like to see if we can get the instead of Ken's at the store better for you and NO MSG!! I would rather support a company like that. Upon looking for Halloween candy I saw that just snickers and 5th avenue so far in my looking do not have carageenan or dextrose or anything msg code words to my sadness Reecess does and payday does!! Damn!! Working on solving my mystery and I hope that if anyone else reads this it may help them I know that even though I have a headache today it is still not as bad as they used to be and this is a much needed improvement, I look forward to days and weeks when I do not need to nap to get rid of one but the time is coming I can feel it!! |
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