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Can you clarify a little more, everything is processed to one degree or another. Unless you grow and raise your own food.
I was thinking something similar. I can't truely imagine an entirely non processed meal. I guess if one did nothing but steam a bunch of veggies from the garden it would be totally natural...
To me, a totally natural meal is one that is fixed from scratch. We have a lot of them, but we still have to use oils or something to keep whatever from sticking, or some cheese or maybe sour cream, whatever;; they are not 100% natural. I consider what we are having tonight close to natural. The chicken will be grilled, the potatoes and beans steamed, but I will add a light white sause so there goes the completely natural and we will have avocado on top of lettuce with lemon and probably cottage cheese.
I was thinking something similar. I can't truely imagine an entirely non processed meal. I guess if one did nothing but steam a bunch of veggies from the garden it would be totally natural...
To me, a totally natural meal is one that is fixed from scratch. We have a lot of them, but we still have to use oils or something to keep whatever from sticking, or some cheese or maybe sour cream, whatever;; they are not 100% natural. I consider what we are having tonight close to natural. The chicken will be grilled, the potatoes and beans steamed, but I will add a light white sause so there goes the completely natural and we will have avocado on top of lettuce with lemon and probably cottage cheese.
Nita
Exactly the only meat I can get now that is not processed is wild fresh caught seafood or wild game I harvested my self.
Like the deer steaks I have thawing in the fridge for BBQ Wed. Even the salt and pepper I put on the steaks is processed.
Nearly everything. I seldom used processed foods, unless you count all-purpose flour, which I do not mill myself, and my milk is pasteurized, nothing I can do about that. I do use instant couscous and other pastas. I buy the cheapest chicken I can get (69c a pound) so I guess some would call that not natural, but I'm pretty sure it was a live animal once, and is still shaped like a chicken when I buy it.
A typical meal would be onions, peppers and celery cooked with chicken parts in it, well seasoned with paprika, served with nokedlis (made myself from flour and egg) and sour cream, which according to the label, is pure cultured cream.
As for definition of "natural", even cooked food is no longer natural, having been processed by unnatural exposure to high heat.
Make your own spaghetti sauce, easy, and cheaper than in the jar, and all natural.
A 6 ounce can of tomato paste---it's all tomato, nothing else, not even salt, so you'll have to add a pinch.
A can of water.
A couple of onions, cut up.
A green pepper or two, cut up. (I use the semi-hot poblanos)
A few cloves of crushed garlic.
Put them all in a blender and let 'er rip.
Put the blended mixture in a saucepan and cook it long enough to thicken and get rid of the raw veggie taste, maybe 30 minutes or so. While cooking, add whatever else you like. Mushrooms, a bit of meat (I just put in a cut up strip of raw bacon), any necessary spices, a dash of red wine, and a squirt of olive oil for body. I never measure anything, so just wing it.
It's all natural, and even the kids will love it, as long as they don't see you putting the veggies in.
Make your own pasta sauce, easy, and cheaper than in the jar, and all natural.
A 6 ounce can of tomato paste---it's all tomato, nothing else, not even salt, so you'll have to add a little.
A can of water.
A couple of onions, cut up.
A green pepper or two, cut up. (I use the semi-hot poblanos)
A few cloves of crushed garlic.
Put them all in a blender and let 'er rip.
Put the blended mixture in a saucepan and cook it long enough to thicken and get rid of the raw veggie taste, maybe 30 minutes or so. While cooking, add whatever else you like. Mushrooms, a bit of meat (I just put in a cut up strip of raw bacon), any necessary spices, a dash of red wine, and a dash of olive oil for body.
It's all natural, and even the kids will love it, as long as they don't see you putting the veggies in.
Hmm never had pasta sauce made that way. I make about 6 quarts of Marinara and freeze it. I'll post it in the recipe section
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