What Way of Eating are you currently doing?

--Vegan

--Plant-based

--Mediterranean

--Just Whatever

--Keto

--Carnivore

Do you eat this way for a reason, or just habit?

I’m on a bit of a mission to remove all seed oils and ultra-processed foods (UPFs) from our baked goods at my family bakery.

Back in the 1960s (before I was born!), lard was the go-to fat—great for baking, readily available, and widely used. Then vegetarianism gained popularity, so we switched to palm oil, which, at the time, seemed like a perfect alternative due to its similarity to lard. However, concerns about deforestation and the impact on orangutans led us to adopt “sustainably sourced” palm oil—whatever that really means. It made us and our customers feel better, at least for a while.

As the movement to remove palm oil gathered pace, new products emerged, including palm-free baking fat, which is essentially a mix of rapeseed oil and emulsifiers. We transitioned a lot of our bread recipes that contained fat to this new product. Then I discovered Bitcoin, and from there, fell down the rabbit hole of learning about everything—including seed oils!

So now, we’re making the shift away from seed oil-based fats toward something better. We already use a lot of butter, but since we also cater to vegans, it’s not always a viable option. Olive oil, while great, can be too strong for certain breads. That led us to testing coconut fat, and I’ve been pleasantly surprised by how well it works—it doesn’t make everything taste like a piña colada! It’s a single-origin ingredient, and hopefully, a step up from rapeseed oil.

My hunch is that, in time, the market will shift again, and we’ll find ourselves back at lard. That might be a step too soon for our customers right now, but it’s where I see the best long-term solution.

The food industry is a fascinating place to work, but it has its fair share of bad practices that don’t always put customers first. At our bakery, we’ve always tried to go against the grain (pun intended!), and I’m incredibly grateful to the Bitcoiners who opened my eyes to better alternatives. I’ll do my best to steer our family business in this direction! 🫡

Just posted what we are doing about seed oils in our bakery. Not simple but steps in the right direction

Bread is 100%British wheat, butter, sourdough, yeast, egg, salt, linseeds. 🤌🏻

Delicious burger made by the legends The Beefy Boys. New site in Bath UK. We make their buns and boy are they good!

Understanding how a #cashu ecash mint works.

🥜 🥜

Animated slides coming soon TM, as part of my explorations into unidirectional channels connecting to ecash mints.

Looking for a name for my boat after bitcoin slang that only maxis would understand… Ideas?

Honestly one of Nostr’s best features is that every client breaks every now and then.

Forces you to log into another one and - boom - suddenly you’re like damn, things got way better over here.

Feature not a bug.

I woke up this morning from a dream in which I noticed I had re-sprouted a full head of hair. In fact, my hairline was actually too low, like encroaching on the eyebrows.

What does it mean.?

Will zap all interpretations.

i should move the bitcoin standard on top of crypto assets 🫣

They can only control and rob you because you use their money. #Bitcoin is your hedge against government tyranny.

Is this the same pura vida permaculture? I am in the ecoversity online school and they mention pura vida a lot

Reasons to spend bitcoin (incl. Lightning):

1/ It's more secure and private than filling out a form with personal information (e.g. credit card payment on some websites) or 1a/ handing over *credentials* to a waiter, or a POS machine that you don't trust. 1b/ The UI is therefore better (it's smoother)

2/ It's cheaper *maybe* for you, but specifically for the merchant, than credit cards

3/ It (quasi)-settles immediately in LN case and in 10 min on chain; card payments often take 60 days

4/ It has cash like properties but you can pay remotely and immediately

5/ It cannot be blocked by a payments provider

6/ There is no (realistic) limit how small or large the payment can be

7/ Every transaction, especially the more p2p ones, e.g. between friends, but also to companies, adds and improves bitcoin's privacy overall - consider that if we did nothing but move bitcoin to and from KYC exchanges, there would be zero privacy, independent of advanced cryptography. More business or personal transactions without KYC, the less information is in the onchain tracing.

8/ There is no global systemic downtime when some backend fails (this one is more debatable)

9/ Actually using bitcoin is how you learn its mechanics and will give you necessary expertise to not lose it, even if your primary goal is only saving.

10/ Using bitcoin makes it a better money, as you are participating in the process which makes it a viable form of money for others.

#spedn