Sugar Is Toxic

[piskieinboots]

I don't keep hens (sadly not allowed to in this MQ), I do keep the shops in money though!!

I do eat spuds so long as they look like spuds, what I mean is a jacket spud coming out of the ground looks pretty much like it ought'a whereas a plate of chips doesn't - however mostly I eat celeraic or JAs for spuds, parsnips chips are also yummy

My main aim (which I mostly achieve easily) is to not eat any processed foods for approx 85% of the time

If we were to go back 2 million years wheat would probably be fine - sadly what they produce now is so far removed from what it organically was that it is a nasty piece of work - IMHO

[Hilary B]

Near here there is a farm producing organic bread wheat, and in a couple of local shops you can buy bread made with this. It is no longer easy to buy the flour, if it was I would be making a lot more of our bread (as I used to do 26 years ago when we lived not-so-far-away and they sold both the flour and the bread on the actual farm)

[binley100]

Just been and bought a big bag of toxic ready for a jam making session ........

[veggiechicken]

Toxic & Lyle I presume?

[binley100]

Naw t'other one........septic spoon

[mothhawk]

here's a question then - my grandmother always said cane sugar was much better for cooking (and especially for jam) than beet sugar and only ever bought T&L sugar. She reckoned she could tell the difference in the finished product. Has anyone else noticed a difference?

[Thelma Sanders]

Nah all taste like poison

[binley100]

but some has a better carbon footprint .........

[Thelma Sanders]

Does it matter - if we're all gonna die from killer jam

[binley100]

Well as I figure it .......we've all gotta go at some point so might as well enjoy ourselves first.

[Hilary B]

I believe that when beet sugar was first available it wasn't as good for cooking etc as the cane sugar. These days the refining process means all white sugar is pretty similar, and has been for decades....

[Madasafish]

Yep

Beekeepers used to tell the story there was a difference.. but there in not..
Except beet sugar costs more to make:-(

[Two_Sheds]

Except beet sugar costs more to make:-(

British jobs though

[Alison]

Don't know about anything else but the smell of sugar beet processing used to make me feel sick

[di]

I loved that smell...the Ipswich factory closed a few years ago though.