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[JMJ]

Here are some funny quotes from my parents' visit. They tend to eat real foods most of the time, but they really try for a low fat diet.

Me: You're microwaving my raw milk cheddar.
Mom: I wanted it melted.

Mom: Your yogurt is so delicious and creamy. I love the texture and taste. Can I take some home with me to make my own? (It's strained whole goat milk yogurt.)
Me: Sure, but you know that a lot of the taste comes from the fat. That's a pretty high fat food.
Dad: No, yogurt's not high in fat.
Me: Umm... I make it with whole milk...

They think the only reason I'm eating so much fat is because I'm trying to keep the weight on while nursing...

[ramlita]

It's so hard to let go of a lifetime of conditioning

[witchygrrl]

I made pumpkin muffins with, among other things, pastured butter and raw honey. My MIL wanted to believe me that they were healthier muffins, but you could tell she just couldn't make the leap. She wanted me to make muffins with applesauce and powdered milk from Weight Watchers. But mine were too good to be really healthy. Sigh.

[ramlita]

Reminds me of the time a friend complimented my whole wheat, coconut oil, pastured egg, etc, pumpkin cake, and asked,
"So you make it with a regular mix, and add pumpkin flavoring?"


Same planet, different norms

[Smokering]

A friend who works at the hospital recently said "You know, it's ironic that the hospital's supposed to have this new policy of healthy food, but the cafeteria sells stuff like chicken and mashed potatoes... oh, I guess I'm talking to the wrong person here".

[my_baby_love]

That makes me think of my MIL when I reminded her to not feed my DS sugar because he is sensitive to it and we were trying to eliminate it completely from his diet. So she assured me that everything she had given him had been sugar free (as in, made with artificial sweetener), so it was completely fine. I think I spluttered out something about it not being all that good for him either and just shook my head. How are you supposed to work through that?

[painefaria]

we have similar issues with DP's parents. Sometimes people just don't get it

[witchygrrl]

I hear that one about the artificial sweeteners, too. The thing about my MIL is that she ties to get employees on health regimines so they can be healthy and lower their insurance costs. But she doesn't seem to know how to filter crap info from the good...or much else for that matter. She means well, though.

[JMJ]

How did our society ever get to the point that everyone thinks that if you that if you substitute fake ingredients for real foods, it will taste better and be more healthy?

[sarah_bella1050]

I had a friend bring over some cranberry bread. I said I was on a diet and she says "it's actually really pretty healthy, it's even fat free. It does have a lot of sugar though." I was good though I just "Oh OK". Sometime it's just not worth the fight.

[BeagleMommy]

Very well said, JMJ!

[laohaire]

My mom does the sugar-free thing too. Drives me bonkers.

Last time MIL visited, I made a nice dinner for everyone but whipped up a few baked fries for DD since there weren't a whole lot of foods she liked. I didn't intend them for everyone else - wasn't trying to be stingy, lol, there was a lot of other good food but I only had a couple of potatoes - but I caught MIL eating them. I informed her I used bacon fat for them and her eyes just about popped out of her head. I was just really amused, however, to see that even while she was reacting, her hands never stopped moving from the plate of fries to her mouth Later, she shared her Irish mother's recipe for pan-fried potatoes in bacon grease, she said that even though they ate fish on Fridays and she didn't like it, she still loved Fridays because of the "chips."

[JMJ]

Originally Posted by laohaire

I informed her I used bacon fat for them and her eyes just about popped out of her head. I was just really amused, however, to see that even while she was reacting, her hands never stopped moving from the plate of fries to her mouth Later, she shared her Irish mother's recipe for pan-fried potatoes in bacon grease, she said that even though they ate fish on Fridays and she didn't like it, she still loved Fridays because of the "chips."

Haha! That's because real food is SO GOOD! It's a healthy diet without depriving yourself.

[organicmidwestmama]

omg these are so funny. for dd's first birthday i made a soaked nut-based 'cheese' cake using almonds and butter and coconut oil for the crust, and strawberries and soaked cashews and very little honey for the filling. my mil loved it and asked what it was, so i explained it was a no cheese cheesecake made with nuts. her response was "oh, its so good, and must be lower in calories!". lol, i just nodded. this cake is made with the most nutrient-dense ingredients, coconut oil, butter, nuts, and is not even slightly low in calories.

[organicmidwestmama]

Originally Posted by JMJ

How did our society ever get to the point that everyone thinks that if you that if you substitute fake ingredients for real foods, it will taste better and be more healthy?

ugh. for real. in a nutshell, our society got to this point because we were told for the last 50 years, since the advent of widespread margerine use and Ancel Key's lipid hypothosis, that fat is causing all the new heart/diabetes/obesity probems so we better eat something else instead of the real foods that are supposedly killing us.

[TeriAnna]

organicmidwestmama Would you mind sharing that "cheesecake" recipe?? That sounds so good!!

[organicmidwestmama]

Originally Posted by TeriAnna

organicmidwestmama Would you mind sharing that "cheesecake" recipe?? That sounds so good!!

the recipe i used was (very) modified from this book http://www.amazon.com/Sweet-Gratitud.../dp/1556437447 .

i didnt use agave, i used local honey and i used 1/4 the sweetener called for and it was still very very sweet. also, i subsituted part of the coconut oil called for with butter because, well, i love butter!
also i didnt use raw nuts as i dont think theyre terribly digestable.

[JMJ]

I had another funny happen yesterday. I was at a moms' group and fed DD (13 months) a snack of carrots sauteed in ghee. There was a mom there who was horrified that I fed my baby carrots with "something on them," especially when she found out it was fat. She asked why DD couldn't just eat them raw or eat apples instead. I think it was a mix of thinking that fat is bad, that babies shouldn't eat anything with taste, being such a new mom that she has no idea the variety of foods eaten by a 13 month old, and I couldn't tell if there was a hint of thinking that it is crazy to actually cook for your baby. She did accept my explanation that DD doesn't have enough teeth to handle raw carrots yet, and another baby there who is good friends with DD has an apple allergy, but I could still tell that she thought my choice of snack was crazy!

[witchygrrl]

Mmmm, carrots cooked in ghee sounds delightful. Why wouldn't babies want to eat fat anyway? I just don't get it...I'll be spending the weekend with the ILs so I'm sure to have some funny comments. I'm bringing some of my own food because I can't trust them...

[Razmatazz]

the other day i was with my friend for the day as we had lectures. She was coming down with something, probably a cold, and wanted to buy some food. (by the way almost every day the kind of food i see her eat is chocolate, mcdonalds burgers and chips, frescatos or frappucinos from starbucks, etc etc..)
one of the things she bought was a carton of orange juice, and i dont remember what i said but i remember her saying "but it's healthy! it's got vitamin C!"
And then i told her that sugar depresses the immune system and she didn't believe me at all! lol...she was just like "yeah right!"