Dear lentil-weavers......

[SauerKraut]

Can I just ask- what kind of meals do you give your kids? And how often do you give them whole grains? And what about red meat? And how much milk? I think I may be weaving a little too assiduously and possibly depriving mine of the right balance of nutrients.

Oh and totally agree with the two huge giants of global scale worry, the millions they each spend in propaganda is obscene!
Would never consider giving my kids cows milk tho', evil stuff imo. I'd rather they had Haribo .
Meant to ask Filly (sorry completely OT) are you 'doing' Imbolc?

hmm but how do we then get around it, sorky? I mean, I personally have to buy most of my soy products...

oh also the other difficulty I have-soy products eg the yoghurts are often full of real shite.

I do feel a bit like the soy giants are saying, wow, vegan hippies, how can we sell over-processed shite to them.

but wow you are knowlegable. am impressed. have been out-geeked

oh btw the imbolc thing is hardly irrelevant is it? cos of her being the goddess of fertility=milk=oh crap we've done another HE thread thing haven't we...

yeah probably. We do it as groundhog day really. Would love some input and thoughts on it.

Sorky,yes you have summed up how I feel re so many Western style soy products.
They are just vile.

sorry, mrsnosh was a typo
i agree about the crap in some soya products, lots of sugar in the yogs etc but as i said before, i struggle to find other alternmatives in germany. i am hopoefully moving back to uk soon so i will then be able to hit the health food shops.

re soya formula, i have a midwife friend who has been issued with instructions not to prescribe or reccommend soya formula anymore, she is going to give me more details when she is back off her hols. i was given soya formula for ds and when i queried it with paed about the phytoestrogens he said it was rubbish, but then again this is the man who refuses to beleive that ds has aanaphylactic egg allergy and wont give me an epipen (ds has hives, stomach pain, vomiting, goes floppy, purple tinged lips and diarrheoa within minutes of a tiny bit of egg being ingested).

i never gave him the formula as i was breastfeeding and when i read the ingredients the first two listed were glucose syrup and veg oil! i thought no way am i giving ds that

Outgeeked! NEVER!!!
Surely as the bunch of resourceful woman that we are, we can figure out a way to successfully knit them into a yummy food .
I'm not sure what the answer is I'll be honest with you. We haven't done dairy for 10 years or so now but were never big dairy do'ers anyway. I compromise a little, buying Colombus eggs or stealing half a dozen from my mum's chickens when we visit (free range and organic) fed better than my dad to hear him, because my kids like eggs. No cheese, soya milk for cereals but that's about it.
I'm planning to EBF this babba to avoid the formula issue.
Will post re Imbolc on HE thread later on when these damn BH have gone

But this is gorgeous and is not full of shite

Can I ask... what is a lentil-weaver??

Somebody whose lifestyle generally involves lentils/real food cooked from scratch/organic food/wooden toys and maybe the odd bit of tie-dye clothing.

ta.

there is, however, debate on the crystal fondling.

do lentil weavers need to fondle crystals? it is not clear.

keep meaning to start a thread

tick-corn syryp, corn syrup though, my friend...

(says filly, in no way eating an entire large bar of cotons chocolate)

LMAO at the 'Cholorophyll can oxygenate your bloo' what utter, utter bollocks!

There is a plant version of haemoglobin BTW called (and I shit you not) leghaemoglobin. It is used to 'soak up' oxygen in the soil so that nitrogen fixation can happen. But you could eat tonnes of the stuff and it wouldn't oxygenate your blood.

That is what your lungs are for

The good 'Dr' don't half talk some shit!

Hmm,I dpn't fancy that yoghurt either.Corn syrup and thickeners. Yuck.

Give me a pot of Onken anyday.

Okay, but it's better than supermarket shite. And preferable to the Alpro ones which do have too many ingredients. Oh, in an ideal world I would be making my own. Well, I do intend to.

I think you can eat pretty much anything without too many ill effects. Trans-fats are BAD though. They're used a lot in the food industry. I loathe Gillian Mckeith. I think she's an odious cock-eyed lunatic. She's very litigious. Basically she's a bully who gets paid a lot to tell people to eat their greens. If you google 'BAD SCIENCE' you can find her. I think it's important that children eat enough fat. It makes everything taste so much better! There are all sorts of different oils out there. You can also get really yummy soy sauce coated dry roasted seeds.

I think I'll hurry out and get a takeaway!