Comments on: Organic Mushrooms http://www.leyton.org/diary/2008/03/02/organic-mushrooms/ Thoughts. Comment. Opinion. Fri, 05 Sep 2008 11:24:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Slutty McWhore http://www.leyton.org/diary/2008/03/02/organic-mushrooms/#comment-23118 Slutty McWhore Thu, 06 Mar 2008 05:36:55 +0000 http://www.leyton.org/diary/2008/03/02/organic-mushrooms/#comment-23118 <p>I'm a vegan, and have been so for about eighteen months. In other words, I don't eat any meat, fish, dairy, eggs or honey. I also make sure to buy beauty products and household cleaners that are vegan/animal friendly.</p> <p>I'm also an endurance runner, by the way (just finished my second marathon a couple of weeks ago, and I'll be doing Boston in April) so that just goes to show that a vegan diet can definitely give you enough calories to do serious sport! Carl Lewis is a vegan!</p> I’m a vegan, and have been so for about eighteen months. In other words, I don’t eat any meat, fish, dairy, eggs or honey. I also make sure to buy beauty products and household cleaners that are vegan/animal friendly.

I’m also an endurance runner, by the way (just finished my second marathon a couple of weeks ago, and I’ll be doing Boston in April) so that just goes to show that a vegan diet can definitely give you enough calories to do serious sport! Carl Lewis is a vegan!

]]> By: mrs k http://www.leyton.org/diary/2008/03/02/organic-mushrooms/#comment-23111 mrs k Tue, 04 Mar 2008 18:35:31 +0000 http://www.leyton.org/diary/2008/03/02/organic-mushrooms/#comment-23111 <p>Bet you were not living in Glasgow on the west, wet, windy coast - try again</p> <p>get two - we put one outside and one in the bathroom - the bathroom was the most productive - do not ask me why.</p> Bet you were not living in Glasgow on the west, wet, windy coast - try again

get two - we put one outside and one in the bathroom - the bathroom was the most productive - do not ask me why.

]]> By: Richard http://www.leyton.org/diary/2008/03/02/organic-mushrooms/#comment-23108 Richard Mon, 03 Mar 2008 12:47:26 +0000 http://www.leyton.org/diary/2008/03/02/organic-mushrooms/#comment-23108 <p>Had two Shittake logs a few years ago:</p> <p>http://www.leyton.org/diary/2005/12/30/a-yule-log-with-a-difference/</p> <p>Unfortunately, it didn't produce many mushrooms. I must have been doing something very wrong :-(</p> Had two Shittake logs a few years ago:

http://www.leyton.org/diary/2005/12/30/a-yule-log-with-a-difference/

Unfortunately, it didn’t produce many mushrooms. I must have been doing something very wrong :-(

]]> By: mrs k http://www.leyton.org/diary/2008/03/02/organic-mushrooms/#comment-23107 mrs k Mon, 03 Mar 2008 12:44:27 +0000 http://www.leyton.org/diary/2008/03/02/organic-mushrooms/#comment-23107 <p>Meant to add, Richard try a shittake mushroom log and grow it - they do taste different.</p> Meant to add, Richard try a shittake mushroom log and grow it - they do taste different.

]]> By: mrs k http://www.leyton.org/diary/2008/03/02/organic-mushrooms/#comment-23106 mrs k Mon, 03 Mar 2008 12:43:45 +0000 http://www.leyton.org/diary/2008/03/02/organic-mushrooms/#comment-23106 <p>Apart from not buying things out of season, which are mostly tasteless anyway.That also includes tomatoes so when I buy them out of season its mainly for sauces or smothered in something. </p> <p>For the rest, I buy what I like the taste of - so that means no intensively reared animal, no eggs that are not 'organic' because they look like and taste like the ones I ate as a kid. Don't trust supermarket free range eggs but the ones from the farmers shop or markets are great.</p> <p>Hate farmed fish - tastes funny - if not wild, eat it out of a tin - still love it. But have discovered that Sea Bass and Bream which were not on our menu as kids and which I like are 'farmed'.</p> <p>Super foods, super twaddle, a little of what you like and a little of what you fancy and a varied diet. And a great deal of roughage or what is called now 'high fibre'. Each week the powers that be change their minds about what's good and what's bad.</p> <p>All I ask is that</p> <p>a) supermarkets stop asking for uniformity in fruit and vegetables as this leads to bad husbandry and educate their customers that fruit, veg, chickens etf all come in different shapes and sizes and sometimes with muck on them</p> <p>b) farmers cut down radically on the use of pesticides</p> <p>I believe the rise in illnesses like, all cancers, all auto-immune diseases, CJD, the autism spectrum, AHD and a whole host of others is down to chemicals of which we are not aware of and started out with DDT immediately after the war, been consumed by us and as a consequence is comprising the human race.</p> <p>The only piece of advice believe in is the 'five portion's per day' and a bowl of proper porridge every day. Oh and a wee noggin or two when the fancy takes you. </p> <p>Maybe I am a 'nutter.</p> <p>.</p> <p>supermarkets stop insisting on the same size and shape of vegtables and frui</p> Apart from not buying things out of season, which are mostly tasteless anyway.That also includes tomatoes so when I buy them out of season its mainly for sauces or smothered in something.

For the rest, I buy what I like the taste of - so that means no intensively reared animal, no eggs that are not ‘organic’ because they look like and taste like the ones I ate as a kid. Don’t trust supermarket free range eggs but the ones from the farmers shop or markets are great.

Hate farmed fish - tastes funny - if not wild, eat it out of a tin - still love it. But have discovered that Sea Bass and Bream which were not on our menu as kids and which I like are ‘farmed’.

Super foods, super twaddle, a little of what you like and a little of what you fancy and a varied diet. And a great deal of roughage or what is called now ‘high fibre’. Each week the powers that be change their minds about what’s good and what’s bad.

All I ask is that

a) supermarkets stop asking for uniformity in fruit and vegetables as this leads to bad husbandry and educate their customers that fruit, veg, chickens etf all come in different shapes and sizes and sometimes with muck on them

b) farmers cut down radically on the use of pesticides

I believe the rise in illnesses like, all cancers, all auto-immune diseases, CJD, the autism spectrum, AHD and a whole host of others is down to chemicals of which we are not aware of and started out with DDT immediately after the war, been consumed by us and as a consequence is comprising the human race.

The only piece of advice believe in is the ‘five portion’s per day’ and a bowl of proper porridge every day. Oh and a wee noggin or two when the fancy takes you.

Maybe I am a ‘nutter.

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supermarkets stop insisting on the same size and shape of vegtables and frui

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