Fast-5 Diet and Lifestyle: Re: [fast5] OT (Heather

Tuesday, August 25, 2009

Re: [fast5] OT (Heather - Cooks magazine/website

Cooks comes out once a month, or maybe even once every two
months. So you'd need to do something else for a daily meal.
Maybe have them plan meals, put the ingredients in SparkPeople
or some such to see what the actually nutrition levels are.

I don't subscribe to any other food magazines. I have a bunch
of old cookbooks and LaVrenne Practique, and a couple of books
on "science in the kitchen" (which are awfully fun: they have some
food experiments in "how to fossilize your hamster" too).

Food science and nutrition are two different topics though, and
each deserves it's own unit. Most of the "how too" books are divided
up logically, and you could just follow the book layout. I
haven't found a good food nutrition book though, and
most of the current ones I highly disagree with. (Like, for
starters they want you to eat 3-5 small meals a day ... ).
Science doesn't seem to have the recipe for "how to
feed a human" yet.

My daughter went through a nutrition class though, and it was interesting.
The teacher found, when analyzing her diet, that she wasn't
eating enough calories to sustain a person her size and weight ...
she does IF too (albeit not on purpose) and she is not skinny.
She is very muscular and a good athlete. Also the teacher found
that she couldn't improve on my daughter's food choices. She
mostly eats meat, fruits, vegies and some homemade desserts,
but I look at what she eats and can't figure out how it sustains
her either. She must be incredibly good at absorbing nutrients.

Anyway, my daughter is in "alternative schooling" and so is home
much of the time. I have her make meals a lot, and now she is
very proud that when friends come over she can cook for them,
while most of her friends couldn't boil an egg. Basic stuff
like "how to make hash browns", or "carmelizing onions",
or "chicken soup" or "steak". I guess if I was organizing a lesson
plan I'd do something like:

1. Cooking in water (boiling, braising, soups).
2. Cooking over fire (that one is really fun!)
3. Cooking in oil (sautee, etc)
4. Cooking in an oven
5. Eating raw (salads, sashimi ... pros and cons, dangers and
advantages. Raw lettuce is a big possible source of food illness, and
also nice to eat!).
6. Fermented foods (how do they make vinegar, cheese, yogurt, kimchi, kefir?).

Then go through ingredients: what are the nutrients in pastry flour?
In an egg? In a fish? In an apple? Potato? Different kinds of oil?
How do the different methods of cooking affect the nutrients? Antinutrients?
(solanine in potatoes? Gassiness from eating cabbage?).

Then I'd go through food history: How did people cook 50 years ago?
100 years ago? In China? Japan? Germany? Whatever your heritage is?
Ask grandma and grandpa what THEY ate when they were kids.

Anyway, I think when a kid leaves home, they should be equipped
to feed themselves something besides TV dinners and chips.

On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 1:45 PM, Karen<laurvick@charter.net> wrote:
> Thank you!
>
> I'll have to see what the GFCFNN forum is all about (as if I have more
> time!).
>
> The Cook's magazine doesn't come out once/wk, does it? Or do you have OTHER
> magazines you subscribe to?
>
> I was sharing with Ellen that I'd like to work up a nutrition unit study for
> my two remaining home schooling kids.
>
> Do YOU have any suggestions (books, etc)?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: fast5@yahoogroups.com [mailto:fast5@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of
> Heather Twist
> Sent: Monday, August 24, 2009 2:10 PM
> To: fast5@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [fast5] (Heather - Cooks magazine/website (GFCF baking mix)
>
> Their website has good recipes, but I spend too much time online
> anyway. So I just go thru one magazine a week. As a school project,
> going the the recipes in one month would be a good one! Some are
> difficult to do GF, but a lot of them are about stuff like pot roast,
> cuts of meat, etc. They sell a yearly summary too, which
> is nice (or you can get the recipe books). But I like having it
> "dosed out" so I don't go overboard.
>
> I haven't tried their forum. For cooking advice I tend to stick to the
> GFCFNN forum, where people understand where I'm coming from.
>
>
> On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 10:21 AM, Karen<laurvick@charter.net> wrote:
>> Thanks, again, for this great input. I really appreciate it!
>>
>> Sounds like I need to spend time at your website! May be just like
> sitting
>> in your kitchen, eh?
>>
>> I'd missed your rec. to get the Cooks magazine. Just ordered a free
> sample
>> from them. If it end up like I'm hoping, my DD and I will make a school
>> course out of cooking! Would you recommend joining their web site forum
> (it
>> is a paid forum)?
>>
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