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Confiote – Jam Recipe
The higher the quality of the ingredients, the better the dish will be for both your taste and your health. It’s important to choose your ingredients carefully: from your garden, a community-supported agriculture (CSA) program, the market, an artisan, a permaculture farm, etc. — preferably organic, free of pesticides and fertilizers (avoid industrial organic products…
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Ça m’épate à pizza
“Ça m’épate” is an expression that means something impresses, amazes, or surprises you, often in an admiring way. “La pâte à pizza” means pizza dough. Don’t buy industrial dough from supermarkets. It doesn’t taste good and is full of preservatives and carbohydrates (sugar). The better the quality of the ingredients, the better the food will…
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Tasty and healthy
“Food is our first medicine”. Hippocrates There’s too much sugar and water in low-quality food. The community pays for the care associated with the illnesses this causes, while the agri-food industry are subsidized with community money to be cheaper. Poor-quality food costs the community far too much. We should be subsidizing good-quality, environmentally-friendly and worker-friendly…
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Looking for fat
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Homemade drinks – Hot or cold but not as sugary
Yes, yes, still water is healthier, from the tap when you are lucky or bottled water. And yes, yes, breastmilk is better for babies and Moms (except in serious cases). (WHO recommendations on infant feeding: https://www.who.int/nutrition/topics/infantfeeding_recommendation/en) But when you want to indulge yourself… and especially for cold drinks, industrial products add tons of sugar. On…
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Qu’est-ce que gaspiller?
Qu’est-ce que gaspiller? Croquer deux fois dans une pomme et la délaisser parce qu’on est rassasié ou manger deux paquets de gâteaux industriels et d’en acheter un quatrième parce qu’on a encore faim? Was bedeutet es, etwas zu verschwenden? Oder zwei Packungen industriell gefertigten Kuchen zu essen und eine vierte zu kaufen, weil man noch…
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Great Fruit
There isn’t any grape in it ! But there’s juice… The higher the quality of the ingredients, the better the dish will be for your taste and health. Couper le pamplemousse en deux: https://fr.wikihow.com/découper-un-pamplemousse#Couper_un_pamplemousse_en_deux_sub Pousse mousse, tu pousses et ça mousse – 1983: https://youtu.be/G00mgaKFn-E?si=XJ29GbACFRortCXC Cutting up a melon or a pineapple or an avocado or a tomato…
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Le mon coeur
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That Sugar film (2014)
Ultra-processed’ products now half of all UK family food purchases – The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/feb/02/ultra-processed-products-now-half-of-all-uk-family-food-purchases?CMP=share_btn_tw Thailand moves to cut sugar in popular drinks amid health drive – The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/feb/22/thailand-moves-to-cut-sugar-in-popular-drinks-amid-health-drive
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Sugar Smart
When talking about sugar, the difference between table sugar you use when you cook and industrial sugar that is used in ultra-processed food is striking. Unless you have a real disorder, too much sugar tastes bad. Industrial sugar like glucose syrup or HFCS (high fructose corn syrup) will not taste sweet. You won’t tell when…