Alright, give me your best tips for removing seed oils from my diet. I realized today I’m getting a lot more of it than I was willing to admit.
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No more chips. Cook in butter, ghee, coconut oil, tallow. Snacks are cheese, beef jerky, pistachios etc. READ ALL LABELS- seed oils are in everything. Including roasted almonds and breads.
Already done haha
I primary cook with those already, so good there. I will have to double check the almonds I have though, I didn’t realize that 🥲
Read every label in your pantry. You will be shocked how many innocent things like roasted almonds have seed oils. Then look up non seed oil versions at health food type markets and replace them.
Or prepare all your own food from single ingredients.
One lesson I learned:
A lot of flavored nuts will likely have been sprayed by some form of seed oil to make the flavoring stick, I assume.
Plain salted pistachios- no seed oil.
But the flavored ones have seed oil listed in the ingredients.
I was living in a fools paradise for a while with my flavored pistachios.
Basically question everything because that shit is in almost every fucking thing.
Eat natural shit, cheese, beef, poultry, pork, eggs, nuts, avocados, butter, yogurt, veggies/legumes if ya want.
For me giving up Ranch dressing and mayo was tough. I use a lot of sour cream now. lol.
Also, obvs no fried foods unless you can find some niche place that cooks in tallow.
So basically no wings, fries, etc.
Wings were tough to give up, too.
Good luck!
Primal kitchen has a line of avocado oil mayo and salad dressings. Still somewhat processed but a lot better than the usual shit.
Indeed, and they’re pretty tasty! I just couldn’t keep dropping almost 10 bucks for a rather small jar of mayo. I did it for a bit though.
Yeah. It’s very pricey. Chosen Foods has a large size mayo with comparable ingredients that is all little more cost effective at the larger size.
Yes, I love their mayo! I panic checked if it had seed oil lol
One lesson I learned:
A lot of flavored nuts will likely have been sprayed by some form of seed oil to make the flavoring stick, I assume.
Plain salted pistachios- no seed oil.
But the flavored ones have seed oil listed in the ingredients.
I was living in a fools paradise for a while with my flavored pistachios.
Basically question everything because that shit is in almost every fucking thing.
Eat natural shit, cheese, beef, poultry, pork, eggs, nuts, avocados, butter, yogurt, veggies/legumes if ya want.
For me giving up Ranch dressing and mayo was tough. I use a lot of sour cream now. lol.
Also, obvs no fried foods unless you can find some niche place that cooks in tallow.
So basically no wings, fries, etc.
Wings were tough to give up, too.
Good luck!
Oh man, ranch is going to be hard for me too. My wife has a lot of allergies so she’s been making dressing of her own, so I’m gonna try that but including dairy.
And we’ve been making wings at home in our air fryer. Not quite the same but still hits!
I like to use tallow, lard, and ghee to cook with. Ghee is easy to make: take grassfed unsalted butter and boil it until it stops steaming and the butter fats are a little browned, slowly pour through a metal strainer, let it cool and you have ghee. You can save the ftied butter fats to add flavor to stuff. If you look up a guide that's more complicated than that, the author is a noob.
Some resources that helped me:
https://drcate.com/fatburnfix-book/
https://saifedean.com/podcast/107-deep-nutrition-with-dr-cate-shanahan
https://saifedean.com/podcast/127-why-we-get-sick-with-dr-benjamin-bikman
Going to restaurants is very hit or miss. Any fast food is out of the running by default. Read the labels on food, but you're gonna end up avoiding most things with a nutrition label. Find a place that sells raw milk. Get beef from a local rancher or the Beef Initiative.
