True Lemon

mocame · August 2008

Has anyone tried True Lemon, True Lime or True Orange? They are supposed to be 0 sugar, 0 calories, no artificial sweeteners and from all natural ingredients.

They say you can use it to flavor water, tea, yogurt, chicken, veggies, popcorn and more.

Is it actually okay to use and does it taste good?

Harborwitch · August 2008

"Ingredients: Citric acid, Lactose*, Lemon juice, Lemon oil, Maltodextrin, Ascorbic acid (vitamin C). *A milk derivative"

I have been using the lemon and the lime - they are great for adding a zip to foods and drinks. There's nothing in it that is harmful - as far as I know.

mocame · August 2008

Thank you! I guess I'll give it a try.

I'm just starting this whole process of figuring out I should or shouldn't eat or drink and it can be very confusing and frustrating.

I never realized how much junk is in the food we eat. Even the "healthier" foods have corn syrup, sugar, hydrogenated whatever. And I can't have soy! If it doesn't have the fructose corn syrup or the hydrogenated whatever, it has soy. Frown

I wish somewhere there was a list of foods we can eat. It takes me a very long time to get through the grocery store when I'm looking at every label! Wink

Harborwitch · August 2008

I wanted Thousand Island dressing the other night. Grabbed a new "light" version; 2nd ingredient was high fructose corn syrup! Grabbed a full fat version - way down the list was sugar. I'll take my chances with the fat over the HFCS!

My daughter and I were in Costco the other day - they had a new catsup that is "organic" no HFCS! That will be on our grocery list. We're really trying to watch what we eat - and really buy very little processed food. I bake all of our bread and rolls, make soup from scratch, and I'm thinking of really getting ruthless about it.

althea · August 2008

I recently read "In Defense of Food" which has a lot of information about the 'food-like substances' that fill our supermarkets. You might find it interesting also. I found it very enlightening. And maddening. The food companies are just as bad as the pharmaceuticals when it comes to weilding their power to suppress opinions contrary to their profit margins.

althea · August 2008

Harborwitch, I started baking my own bread again this year also. With all good intentions, I went to the library for vegan cookbooks and a shaker cookbook caught my eye. Now I can't figure out which is the lesser of two evils -- the milk and butter in the shaker recipe or the 'buttery sticks' butter substitute which tastes ok to me, but it's manufactured from soybeans.

nixieschaos · August 2008

Althea, have you tried Earth's Balance? it is a vegan spread that tastes so much like butter. it is fabulous for baking as well. The milk and butter is pure evil...:) Earth's balance has it's regular product and a soy version as well. I haven't tried the soy. As far as bread goes...we need to stay away from the white flour...I buy Ezekiel sprouted bread. It is so good...Toasted, with Earth's balance on it is sheer heaven As far as dressings go, Whole foods has a Lemon Tahini that is amazing. I also make dressing out of avocados.

There is info on the right foods to eat...one of the sites is http://www.cancertutor.com it is overwhelming at first, but I found what I believe saved my life on this site...so it's worth reading through. Basically, the foods we need to eat are the foods that god put on this earth before the processing plants were invented. God's food will heal us. We all just need to treat food as a lifesource.

Daffodil · August 2008

Is there a vegan substitute for eggs?

mocame · August 2008

Thank you Althea and nixieschaos for the book and website information. I will check them out.

I wish the healthy whole foods weren't so expensive. I did see the Ezekial bread in just one of our local grocery stores but it was $5.99 a loaf! I will have to keep searching around and see what I can find in the area that might be cheaper and stock up. How is it that the junk food with all the additives and perservatives are cheaper than the good healthy food? I might have to get another part-time job to pay for the healthy food I need to keep me alive! Laughing

althea · August 2008

pansy, yes, there are a couple of egg alternatives, for baking anyway. I developed a vegan molasses cookie over the summer, and it's just as tasty as the butter and egg version. Maybe I should start a new thread, since this one started with a different topic.

nixie, yes, I have tried the earth balance buttery sticks. I really didn't think I would like it, but I'm happy to say I do. In fact, I haven't bought butter for two months. Cookies are what I like best and the buttery sticks work great in place of butter. And it's not made from genetically modified soy beans either, which is good. I like it on toast also. Thanks for the link. I'll check it out.

Anonymous · August 2008

I mix True Lemon, True Lime (1 packet each), 1.5 tbs sugar, and 1/8 tsp salt into 20 oz of water (a Rubbermaid water bottle size), mix well, for my own version of Gatorade. Tastes much better to me.

True Lemon and Lime rock. Don't care for the Orange as much.

nixieschaos · September 2008

Uncle Eddies Vegan cookies are amazing. Wild Oats and Wholw foods sells them.

Mocame. Check out the co-ops in the area. Makes it easier to afford organics. Organics and vegan/natural foods are less expensive in the larger specialty stores like wild oats, whole foods and mother's

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