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I don’t eat sugar anymore but I noticed that after dropping soda and sweets I still eat a lot sugar. It’s in everything. Even tomato sauce and stuff that you’d think is healthy. I’m not sure it’s even possible to have a full diet without any sugar at all. You can do sugar-free waffles but then it’s for nothing if they’re doused in syrup (very sugary)

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I have pretty much stopped eating processed foods.

I am also a avid reader of nutrition labels.

Not sure it has made much difference to me, but it lowered my food bill.

The advice I follow, not sure where it si from: Eat food. Mostly plants. As unprocessed as convenient.

> The advice I follow, not sure where it si from

Michael Pollan famously said, "Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants."

exactly, I eat a lot raw leeks (the green parts are the best raw of course, for the white part, I let it a few days so it gets less 'spicy'), raw spinach, raw onion leaves, raw green cabbages or kale cabbages and a lot of fruits (clementines, oranges, pears, persimmons, and figs/medlars when it's the season). I find this food either in the nature (you gotta search a bit) or at local farm

I used to eat a lot of honey, completely stopped, not even talking about other stuff like chocolate, or other processed products/meals, I stopped a long time ago, the cooking is done is my belly, no need for fanciness!

It is but you need to shop at the outside edges of your market and pay the labor cost of making most meals from scratch, both of which make nutrition more expensive.

If you're worried about labor, cook using a pressure cooker eg. instant pot. You prepare your ingredients, throw it into a pot, and press a button - coming back to perfectly cooked food with zero monitoring. I work from home and so use mine daily.

Me too. You can even go faster by sealing the food with some insulator (e.g. plastic or tinfoil) to make it retain heat and cook faster in the microwave.

Tinfoil in the microwave? Doesn’t it arc?

That’s what the government wants you to believe.

I don't know the answer to this, but my grandma has an old microwave with a metal grill that your food rests on (like a rack in a conventional oven). I am not sure if it is the type of metal or the shape (it has a squiggly bend on each side, in the middle[0]), but it's definitely possible for metal to go in the microwave without sparking.

[0] very similar to this https://i.redd.it/7nakjihppwy11.jpg

I believe that depends whether it's actually tin or instead aluminum.

Tomato sauce we are buying have tomatoes and salt in it, nothing else.

yeah I do the no-sugar thing from time to time and I noticed that pretty much all products will have at least 2 - 5% sugar in them, so I ended up just trying not to buy anything that exceeds that.

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