Sometimes I feel like I'm in an alternate universe. I can probably name ten meals in the past month that are corn-free even by this schizo's insane standards (ahh but did you know that chicken you ate breathed the same air molecule that once touched corn haha checkmate).
Every meal in the past year contains corn? The past decade? What the fuck are you people doing, drinking Coke and eating Fritos all day every day? Cook a goddamn steak, jesus fucking christ. Anyone who thinks this is an even remotely reasonable thing to say has some major problems, and diabetes is almost certainly one of them.
I regularly eat steak with butter, salt, and pepper. Green beans, asparagus, maybe some Brussels sprouts, all cooked and seasoned by me. That's probably five meals in the past month right there. Swap out the steak with chicken and the butter with nothing, there's another three or four. I make almost everything myself, and if I don't make it I personally vet the ingredients.
So a conservative estimate for the last month at this point is eight, and I've just described two mainstays for dinner. I also regularly make soups, always from scratch, except for the stock which I always buy as low ingredient as possible. If it has anything other than salt and meat in it, I don't want it.
For snacking, I've had mixed nuts, some tofu with unsweetened soy sauce, hard boiled eggs with salt, rice with meat and beans, oatmeal with agave syrup, or smoked fish on crackers, just to name some of my favorites. The crackers contain no corn. I just checked.
I hate to burst your bubble, but most factory farmed animals are fed a grain diet. This means they're probably fed lots of corn. The crap those animals eat affects their products (meat, fat, milk, and eggs). To get truly corn free animal products, you need to buy the ones that specifically say they're organic, naturally raised (free graze) and fed, without hormones or antibiotics.
The original tweet specifically says that an animal that ate corn doesn't count as "eating corn". If it does, we might as well just say that corn touched the same planet as our food and therefore everything we eat is corn, because there is essentially no material in or on this planet that hasn't interacted with corn, or any other plant, in some "six degrees of schizophrenia" way.
The guy might be going full schizo paranoid, but for most people "steak" isn't a meal. Its part of a meal. You know, sides and centerpieces and drinks all add up to "meal" instead of any individual piece counting. Very rare is a meal entirely compassed of one singular ingredient with zero other anything at all.
Even a steak is almost always marinated or seasoned, which would now qualify easily.
I checked my seasonings and dry rubs. None of them contain corn or corn products. Even my Worcestershire sauce, which I was sure would, doesn't.
It's sweetened with molasses. None of my vegetables or sides contain corn. As far as drinks go, I drink water.
My argument isn't that there isn't a lot of corn products everywhere, it's that if you're eating something containing corn syrup for literally every single meal of your entire life, then the problem is ultimately you. I don't even go out of my way to avoid corn syrup, and I still barely ingest any because I just don't like things that are sickeningly sweet.
Just eat simple and you'll break this rule a thousand times without even trying.
It's not Monsanto's fault that so many people think that unless food is smothered in ketchup and hot sauce then it's "boring".
Its not impossible to avoid, but it also isn't easy. If you like any drinks that aren't just water, or enjoy any plethora of foods that reasonably shouldn't have corn syrup in it then you are shit out of luck unless you can buy local or find the specific things that don't. Which is the point, how many things that reasonably shouldn't have it in them, that nobody asked for it to be, but still does.
You've taken his extreme, and jumped to the opposite. That everyone is a ketchup smothering addict to sweetness that are all going out of their way to ingest corn syrup whenever they can.
Meh, steak is a meal unto itself. I used to have a steak for lunch pretty regularly when I was working from home. No sides, no drink, just a steak slathered in butter, salt and pepper. It was a good meal. You gotta get the fatty cuts though, then you'll really get that satiation.
Sometimes I feel like I'm in an alternate universe. I can probably name ten meals in the past month that are corn-free even by this schizo's insane standards (ahh but did you know that chicken you ate breathed the same air molecule that once touched corn haha checkmate).
Every meal in the past year contains corn? The past decade? What the fuck are you people doing, drinking Coke and eating Fritos all day every day? Cook a goddamn steak, jesus fucking christ. Anyone who thinks this is an even remotely reasonable thing to say has some major problems, and diabetes is almost certainly one of them.
I’m honestly curious, name the ten meals.
I regularly eat steak with butter, salt, and pepper. Green beans, asparagus, maybe some Brussels sprouts, all cooked and seasoned by me. That's probably five meals in the past month right there. Swap out the steak with chicken and the butter with nothing, there's another three or four. I make almost everything myself, and if I don't make it I personally vet the ingredients.
So a conservative estimate for the last month at this point is eight, and I've just described two mainstays for dinner. I also regularly make soups, always from scratch, except for the stock which I always buy as low ingredient as possible. If it has anything other than salt and meat in it, I don't want it.
For snacking, I've had mixed nuts, some tofu with unsweetened soy sauce, hard boiled eggs with salt, rice with meat and beans, oatmeal with agave syrup, or smoked fish on crackers, just to name some of my favorites. The crackers contain no corn. I just checked.
I hate to burst your bubble, but most factory farmed animals are fed a grain diet. This means they're probably fed lots of corn. The crap those animals eat affects their products (meat, fat, milk, and eggs). To get truly corn free animal products, you need to buy the ones that specifically say they're organic, naturally raised (free graze) and fed, without hormones or antibiotics.
The original tweet specifically says that an animal that ate corn doesn't count as "eating corn". If it does, we might as well just say that corn touched the same planet as our food and therefore everything we eat is corn, because there is essentially no material in or on this planet that hasn't interacted with corn, or any other plant, in some "six degrees of schizophrenia" way.
Try organic, it has more pesticides :)
The guy might be going full schizo paranoid, but for most people "steak" isn't a meal. Its part of a meal. You know, sides and centerpieces and drinks all add up to "meal" instead of any individual piece counting. Very rare is a meal entirely compassed of one singular ingredient with zero other anything at all.
Even a steak is almost always marinated or seasoned, which would now qualify easily.
I checked my seasonings and dry rubs. None of them contain corn or corn products. Even my Worcestershire sauce, which I was sure would, doesn't. It's sweetened with molasses. None of my vegetables or sides contain corn. As far as drinks go, I drink water.
My argument isn't that there isn't a lot of corn products everywhere, it's that if you're eating something containing corn syrup for literally every single meal of your entire life, then the problem is ultimately you. I don't even go out of my way to avoid corn syrup, and I still barely ingest any because I just don't like things that are sickeningly sweet.
Just eat simple and you'll break this rule a thousand times without even trying. It's not Monsanto's fault that so many people think that unless food is smothered in ketchup and hot sauce then it's "boring".
Its not impossible to avoid, but it also isn't easy. If you like any drinks that aren't just water, or enjoy any plethora of foods that reasonably shouldn't have corn syrup in it then you are shit out of luck unless you can buy local or find the specific things that don't. Which is the point, how many things that reasonably shouldn't have it in them, that nobody asked for it to be, but still does.
You've taken his extreme, and jumped to the opposite. That everyone is a ketchup smothering addict to sweetness that are all going out of their way to ingest corn syrup whenever they can.
And whats the deal with glycerol esters of rosin? is that more corn starch byproducts? and just as bad, or some lab made sugars?
Meh, steak is a meal unto itself. I used to have a steak for lunch pretty regularly when I was working from home. No sides, no drink, just a steak slathered in butter, salt and pepper. It was a good meal. You gotta get the fatty cuts though, then you'll really get that satiation.