I’ve gone non UPF, I just can’t believe the difference it’s made in a week

[LaurieFairyCake]

I feel like such an idiot. I can’t believe how well I feel, how much I’m ready for bed and how much better I sleep.

this shit is radical. I was eating 40% upf (a teenagers diet is 80% 😱) and I feel brand new.

i have zero pain in my joints, during the day loads of good energy

does anyone else do this ?

I buy the strong ones from Lidl. Keep them in the fridge. Two squares a day when I've some in.

Yes! It's from her book 'A Modern Way to Eat'
There are lots of very lovely sounding recipes but they are all so expensive! Pistachios, black sesame seeds, coconut oil/sugar.... however, I make this every week and it's a winner.

I'm sure that you could but you'd need to watch it for the rise rather than time it as rye goes a lot quicker than white or wholemeal IME. I prove it in a glass bowl so I can keep an eye on bubble formation, v helpful when it's so hot and timings are accelerated.

The clue is that it is made from buttermilk. That’s the watery residue left over when real butter is made.

On the topic of ready meals, there are a few providers who do low or entirely non-UPF ready meals and ones that aren’t laden with salt and sugar. I use Field Doctor to stock up freezer sometimes and their stuff is really nice and often low sugar, none of the meals I’ve ordered have UP ingredients in. Some Cook meals are UP-free too. Also Frive stuff.

I know but people on this thread are saying food that is processed is ultra processed.

Taming twins has a no knead bread that tastes just like sourdough. Mix all ingredients together then leave overnight then pop in a covered casserole dish and cook.
I would make it more but my DH only likes soft bread not crusty.

Do you have a go to recipe for wraps please? I can manage a normal loaf but would love to get into making my own wraps, flatbread, foccacia etc.

I wish - I am severely intolerant of almost all artificial sweeteners and some make me very ill indeed.

They have crept into many "non diet" foods as well. Even cider and wine isn't safe from them. Even worse, under alcohol labelling laws they don't need to be listed. Even with foodstuffs, stevia can be listed as a "natural flavouring". Luckily I don't react to that but I can certainly taste it - it has an unpleasant weird liquorice flavour. It's in a lot or premium foods now - Fentiman's is just one.

Which is incorrect, so not sure why you’d join in as it just adds to the confusion

You're right, infuriating.

Sorry.

Rocks Blackcurrant cordial use to be UPF free but now has UPF in it, costs to blame.

How do you know your inflammation nose dived?

https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/tortillas

@PeonyPatch The low sugar/salt ones are UPFs, as are most normal and low sugar/salt cheaper brands. It's only normal and organic heinz ketchup that are not (they're classed as 3 in the scale, so 'just' processed rather than ultraprocessed.

Interesting, thank you for clarification. I’ll bear that in mind when shopping!

I was going to say I see your Gold and raise you Marvel. However I’ve just googled and you can still buy it and it’s not as full of rubbish as I thought. It’s just skimmed milk fortified with vitamins.

which kind of proves the point that others were making which is many of us don’t have a clue and I include me in that!

What do you make your potato salad and egg salad with sauce wise?
With 200 cals of chocolate plus the nuts it seems a lot of food for 1000 cals?
I'm genuinely interested.