Links to traditional foods diet, part 5

[barleychown]

Another article to make you think:

http://nourishnetwork.com/2010/03/24/the-great-burrito-challenge-fast-versus-fresh/

[Tina]

Sometimes, food you don't prepare really, really appeals.

[barleychown]

I know...I fall into that trap all to often. I had doughnuts for breakfast. Then I felt like crap. 

[Dianna]

I love Taco Bell's Burrito Supremes...

I didn't realize how much sodium was in it, though...

[barleychown]

New study on HFCS by Princeton:

http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S26/91/22K07/index.xml?section=

[bestofour]

Well well.  Makes those new commercials saying it's the same as sugar look bad.

[barleychown]

Did you catch the part where the rats were given HALF the concentration of HFCS in soda, but the full amount as soda of sugar? Geez.

[bestofour]

I'm trying to ignore that part since I'm sitting her drinking Pepsi.

[barleychown]

For Sheri, who asked eariler in the week why I was sprouting pinto beans:

http://www.kitchenstewardship.com/2010/03/19/food-for-thought-the-health-benefits-of-sprouting/

[Tina]

I could only find one type of organic sprouted bread today. I may have to search further for more of varieties.

[bestofour]

I have always soaked pintos but have never sprouted any.  I don't plan 3 days in advance.

[bayou girl]

I have always soaked pintos but have never sprouted any.  I don't plan 3 days in advance.

i do good to plan 3 hours in advance.

[barleychown]

I could only find one type of organic sprouted bread today. I may have to search further for more of varieties.

I wish you luck. There is one brand here, with four to five varieties. I tried the multi grain one...it was pretty good. 

[barleychown]

I have always soaked pintos but have never sprouted any.  I don't plan 3 days in advance.

i do good to plan 3 hours in advance.

Here's the best part...you can sprout them and cook them in the crockpot in a big batch, and then freeze them in user friendly portions. 

[Dianna]

I will soak mine tonight, but I doubt they will be sprouted by tomorrow. I don't know if I would like bits of green stuff floating around in my beans, anyway. Or are you removing the sprouts to add to salads?

[landofoz]

I like some sort of sprouted bean.  I bought them at walmart once ...  They were really crispy and tasty - like a yummy lettuce, kinda.  I think all of us liked them...  Strikes me as it was Asian but I bought it in the produce section.  I'm thinking they were mung beans.  I've also had alfalfa and those were pretty tasty too!

[Tina]

Bean sprouts like those are good in salads and sandwiches. And they are very easy and cheaper to sprout your own.

[bestofour]

remember dodge?  She grows mung beans.

[Dianna]

So you sprout them and then eat them in a salad? You don't cook the beans as normal?

[Tina]

OK, Some mung beans and other small beans ot seeds you sprout for longer and that makes bean sprouts that you can use in the salads and such.
Sprouted beans (like pintos) or grains (like wheat berries) you most often just begin to sprout them and then cook like you normally would. They often cook more quickly though. They have the same good for you qualities as your regular unsprouted beans and they've added some additional nutrients because they have become a living organism. Like vegetables and things.
This  is what I've understood from reading. Also sprouting may make the digestion a little easier too.

[bestofour]

doesn't it help a little just to soak them too Tina?  That sprouting is time consuming and it seems to me they'll start smelling.

[Tina]

Smelling/rotting is why you rinse them and drain them again. I have not ever sprouted beans, Sheri. We will have to wait for Sarah to come tell us more. She has hands on experience.

[barleychown]

Tina's right...there are two types of sprouts. One you are sprouting for the top of the sprout, and it's used in salads, sanwiches and stir fries. WHen you sprout mung beans, you are sprouting them for the tops. All other beans, you are sprouting only for the health benifits, and you still cook and use them as normal.

I keep a quart jar with a screen top behind my sink with my current sprouting project in it. You rinse and drain morning and night, easy as can be.

[Tina]

I forgot stir fries

[barleychown]

Stir fries are a crazy awesome way to poke LOTS of veggies into dinner. We do one every 9 days or so.