Wonder How The Food Program Would Feel? Juicing Veggies/Fruits

[daycare]

Because we're the only creatures with the ability to obtain milk from other creatures.

I can certainly survive on a vegan diet. I have two vegan cookbooks sitting next to me in fact!

i dont really own any vegan cookbooks perhaps because everything i eat is raw....

I do have a palieo cookbook, but thats for my meat eating son and husband...

[Country Kids]

Its funny that everyone comes down on cow's milk when I know lots of people that drink goats milk also. Then I have friends that drink rice milk, don't know what in it but sounds very processed. They say it tastes like ice cream so it must be chock full of sugar.

The one question I do have here is-if we eleminate all dairy and such out of our diets where in the world do you get your calcium from. I know alot of people that will take calcium but to me that is no better than drinking milk.

I'm not saying you guys are this way at all but all the people though that I know who eat ultra healthy are either heavy in weight or so thin they look sickly.

Daycare do you have any dental issues. Not trying to be nosey but we have friends who eat raw and for some reason they have lots of problems with their teeth and the dentist seriously thought it was their diet.

Not sure just questions I had and was wondering about.

[TracyB]

@country Kids

There are other ways to meet your daily calcium requirements. I love milk, but when I think about where it comes from.. I agree with the others, why do we drink milk past infancy.

Here is an interesting article... I never realized that sesame seeds had way more calcium than milk... I love sesame seeds... I have a Pilipino friend who makes these chewy sesame seed bars with dried fruit...I love them... OMG they are so good!

http://www.healthaliciousness.com/articles/foods-high-in-calcium.php

[SilverSabre25]

Its funny that everyone comes down on cow's milk when I know lots of people that drink goats milk also. Then I have friends that drink rice milk, don't know what in it but sounds very processed. They say it tastes like ice cream so it must be chock full of sugar.

The one question I do have here is-if we eleminate all dairy and such out of our diets where in the world do you get your calcium from. I know alot of people that will take calcium but to me that is no better than drinking milk.

I'm not saying you guys are this way at all but all the people though that I know who eat ultra healthy are either heavy in weight or so thin they look sickly.

Daycare do you have any dental issues. Not trying to be nosey but we have friends who eat raw and for some reason they have lots of problems with their teeth and the dentist seriously thought it was their diet.

Not sure just questions I had and was wondering about.

Well, cow's milk is rather more common than goat's milk. Alternative milks include soy, rice, almond, coconut, hemp, multi-grain...and those are just the ones I can think of off the top of my head. They are mostly made by blending the source (rice, almonds, etc) with water, then squeezing the resultant liquid through cheesecloth or a strainer to catch the leftover mush. The liquid is what they call the "milk".

They aren't processed in quite the way most processed foods are processed. Here's a recipe for homemade almond milk. I would never describe ANY of them as tasting like ice cream, not in any way, shape, or form. They don't even really achieve creamy...not the way a cow-milk drinker thinks of creamy. You can get them in unsweetened or in sweetened versions, and the unsweetened honestly doesn't taste like a heckuva lot. The sweetened are better, mildy, just because there's more taste. Ice cream, ha, no. Only if you don't know what ice cream tastes like...

Calcium...it's mostly a myth that we need milk to get calcium. If that were true, then what did all the people do who didn't have cows for most of, well, forever? Most cultures around the world don't (or didn't until recently, meaning the past 100 years or so) drink milk, at least not with the frequency and in the quantities that Americans believe is necessary. Here is a list of non-dairy calcium sources. Here's an article, from Harvard, nonetheless, that explains in more detail.

[PitterPatter]

So a few weeks ago we purchased a juicer and LOVE it!!

As a family we're consuming so many more fruits and veggies that we've never eaten or haven't eaten that much of.

So today I decided to try it out on the dcks . With their breakfast I added a broccoli, ginger, pear, apple and orange juice and with lunch a huge bunch of brocolli, some spinach, some more pears, apples and oranges and a little more ginger.

The kids drank it up both times and LOVED it!! I'm definitely going to start including veggie/fruit drinks with the kids meals to get in those extra servings.

Just wonder what the Food Program would think if they showed up to a plate of whole wheat pasta and big glass of "juice".

Here we can't serve juice as a veg or fruit in a meal unless it's part of a snack so I say pour it in a bowl toss a spoon in it and call it cold soup! Don't forget the glass of 1% milk too!