[gotem]

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)

[worik]

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.

[brianush1]

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

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

[11235813213455]

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!

[fach]

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.

[iridium_core]

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.

[gotem]

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.

[criddell]

Tinfoil in the microwave? Doesn’t it arc?

[knicknic]

That’s what the government wants you to believe.

[smichel17]

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

[Geezus_42]

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

[watwut]

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

[asddubs]

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.