lesson 10 assignment.

In this nutrition course I have learned that in order to be healthy, you need to eat whole foods. By whole foods, I mean the foods that were eaten and prepared before industialized food came along, such as raw milk, grass fed beef, non genetically modified corn, bone broths and many others. The industrialized food system has created the illusion that nutrients added into the food make the food healthy when in fact, it doesn't. Nutrients taken in isolation don't help even near as much as the nutrients that are naturallly in the foods. Therefore, in order to get the nutrients that you need, you need to eat whole foods.
 
 Your body needs to be strong. One of the essential things you need to be healthy is proteins. Proteins are a macro-nutrient made up of amino acids, and are used in your body to build the tissues in your muscle, to hold the calcium that makes up your bone together, to holds our nerves together, and many other things that are essential for us to live. If  you don't get enough protein in your diet, consequences are: loss of vigor, impaired growth in infants and children, and a diminished immune response. You can get protein in your diet by eating foods such as dairy products, beef, ham, and other meats daily. To calculate the least amount of protein you need every day, eat about 1.6 grams of protein per 2.2 pounds of body weight.

 Of course, you must be wary of what you eat. MSG is a ingredient used in many industrialized foods that makes the food taste. But at a price. MSG has excitotoxins that make it so that there is an addiction of sorts to the food that the MSG is in. Also, it does damage to your brain, making foods that have MSG in them unhealthy for you. MSG also has many hiding spots on the ingredients list such as glutamate, aspartame, autolyzed yeast and caseinate. But there are many other hiding spots for MSG, making it difficult to pin a product that has MSG. So in conclusion, it is best to avoid processed foods as much as you can.

In short, I have learned from my nutrition course that I should: Eat whole foods as often as you can instead of the processed foods you might find at a store, don't believe ads about nutrients added in to the product to make it healthier, stay away from MSG and all its aliases found in the ingredient lists, eat grass fed meat and raw milk, and make sure you get enough protein in your diet.

lesson 9 assignment

This is the account of what I have had for 3 days.

Breakfasts: Toaster pastry, cheerios and banana cereal, banana.

Lunches: Pizza rolls, chicken sandwich, chicken nuggets.

Dinners: Chicken/vegatable soup, chicken and rice,

Snacks/sides/dessers: 4 apples, 2 oreo truffles, 4 mini Reese's cups, small bowl of chips, crackers, ice cream bar, cheese stick, chocolate bar.

...And a partridge in a pear tree! (just kidding!)

The Apple Starch Iodine Test

We tested three different apples for the iodine test, to figure out which apple was oldest.  The first apple was a Gala apple, the second apple was a JonaGold, the third apple was a Granny Smith.  

These are the pictures of the three different apple types that we tested using iodine. Don't worry, we didn't eat the sides that you are looking at!

Apple 1 - #6 on 1-9 scale
This apple was the middle-aged one

Apple 2 - #4 on 1-9 scale
This apple was the youngest

Apple 3 - #8 on 1-9 scale
This apple was the oldest

The three apples did taste the way you would expect them to.  The oldest apple was very tart because it is a tart kind of apple.  But it was also very mushy and grainy in the texture.  The middle aged apple was a little mushy, but not too bad.  It just was not very crisp and the flavor was kind of medium sour.  The youngest apple tasted fine.  It was crisp and delicious.

lesson 7 assignment.

 For this week's assignment, I decided to make a broth using some bison and beef soup bones. We prepared it by putting the bones on a roasting pan and browning them in the oven. Once browned, we took them out and placed them into a large pot and added a half cup of vinegar and filled it up to about an inch above the bones with water. Then we scraped the scum off of the top after bringing the mix to a simmer and then cut up carrots, onions and celery and then placed a lid on the pot. And that brings me to now. I added a picture of what it looks like in the present time. I don't know how it tastes but compared with the way it smells, I think it will be GREAT! It was very easy to make and I will probably do it again sometime in the future. I will probably use it in some of the meals that I make to make it a little more tasty and healthy. This is a picture of the finished product.

lesson 6 assignment.

pancake batter

This is a picture of the pancake batter I made for my assignment using soaked grain.

 I started by putting 2 cups of yogurt in a large mixing bowl. Then I added 2 cups of freshly ground whole wheat pastry flour to the mix and put it on our counter in the kitchen and covered it  with a dish towel.

 The next day, we uncovered it and mixed in  2 eggs,1/2 tsp of salt and 1 tsp of baking soda and enough water to make it have the desired thickness.                              

cooked pancakes

Reviews: My sisters both exclaimed, "YUM!" upon first taste of the pancakes and my brother tasted them later and said that they are much better that the pre-mixed kind that we used to make. As for me, I thought that they were DELICIOUS!!!

  Next time that I have a craving for pancakes I am definitely going to make them this way.


We didn't use any non-stick spray on the pan but if we had they would have to be called Pam-cakes.                                                  
                 Ha-ha!    (a little joke there.)