Guest guest Posted September 3, 2007 Report Share Posted September 3, 2007 Thanks Thea, It's NOT true that it takes LESS time to MAKE a Butter substitute than to Buy it! I'm already IN my Dean's Natural Food store and it takes all of 45 seconds to pick up another product! Besides, I did find Earth Balance, Non GMO, which the Owner himself recommended highly (And it was on Sale). People who have almost unlimited time don't REALIZE how much another half hour or hour per week makes to us busy people. One hour times 52 would lose me over a week's work helping the Poor here! Plus, that extra half hour could push one " Over the Top " when they're already severely stressed, and cause more HARM through Stress than GOOD! I love good food and cook myself, but don't have the TIME to make every ingredient, only to combine them in the cooking! If I wished to eat honey butter, I would make it, because they no longer SELL it anywhere! But I don't even do that. I love tortellini and other pastas, but with that I don't even have the time to make a fully " Home Made " sauce. So I start with a jar product and maybe add fresh onions & mushrooms ... Or canned mushrooms. I run a Non-Profit to help the poor, and could literally use 50 hours a day doing it, and come up short! But thanks VERY much for the information, I do appreciate your thoughtfulness, Thia! Good luck in the Group! Steve , Thea Hardy <thea wrote: > > Hi, I am new to the group. I am fighting cancer, diabetes, asthma, > fibromyalgia and you name it. Conventional medicine has not helped me > much, and I am very into alternative answers, still looking for > solutions, but having some success with some things. > > I used to make what I called butter-oil much like Mary's mixture. I > added a little liquid lecithin to it. Nowadays, I make ghee, which > doesn't taste exactly like butter, but like browned butter. But I > often use coconut oil which has lots of good, healthy fats that are > part of a balance. I use them together. But for a spread, I think > Mary's recipe is great - if you want it to taste less fatty, you can > add quite a bit of milk as long as you use the liquid lecithin - it's > not good for frying with then, but good on things, vegetables, and > useful in most cooking. > > Steve, it's not really all that hard to make and it lasts well. You > could make it faster than you could go to the store! :-) It doesn't > taste as fatty as a lot of commercial products, and with the liquid > lecithin (which is good for you) and milk, it's really quite mild > from a fat standpoint. The easiest way to make it is to just let it > get scootchy (the butter), add the oil and stuff, including a little > salt if you do salt, and use a stab blender in a deep cup. > > Likewise, homemade mayonnaise, also made with the stick blender, is > pretty darned easy and sooo good. It does take some time to make > these things, but they are so much better for us. > > Just my two cents (or was that twenty!) > > Happy to find this group - I need you folks! > > Thea > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 4, 2007 Report Share Posted September 4, 2007 I wanted to point out, as a cancer survivor (and still fighting) myself, I own two businesses, and I am also very busy! We all just choose to spend our time very differently. Helping the poor and homeless is wonderful, they are struggling to survive, but someone fighting " fighting cancer, diabetes, asthma, fibromyalgia " as Thea stated, is also struggling to survive, and if I were her (and in some ways I am) I would not feel as if I had " unlimited time " . That being said, Earth Balance is a fine product. If I had unlimited money, I might buy it occasionally! In the meantime, I will forgo adding one more piece of plastic to the landfill and spend less time and energy than these emails have taken adding three or four ingredients together to make a healthy product. And thanks, Thea, for the lecithin suggestion! I will add it to my recipe. On 9/3/07, Steve <AsburySteve1952 wrote: > > > Thanks Thea, > > It's NOT true that it takes LESS time to MAKE a Butter substitute than > to Buy it! I'm already IN my Dean's Natural Food store and it takes all > of 45 seconds to pick up another product! > > Besides, I did find Earth Balance, Non GMO, which the Owner himself > recommended highly (And it was on Sale). > > People who have almost unlimited time don't REALIZE how much another > half hour or hour per week makes to us busy people. One hour times 52 > would lose me over a week's work helping the Poor here! Plus, that > extra half hour could push one " Over the Top " when they're already > severely stressed, and cause more HARM through Stress than GOOD! > > I love good food and cook myself, but don't have the TIME to make every > ingredient, only to combine them in the cooking! If I wished to eat > honey butter, I would make it, because they no longer SELL it anywhere! > But I don't even do that. > > I love tortellini and other pastas, but with that I don't even have the > time to make a fully " Home Made " sauce. So I start with a jar product > and maybe add fresh onions & mushrooms ... Or canned mushrooms. > > I run a Non-Profit to help the poor, and could literally use 50 hours a > day doing it, and come up short! > > But thanks VERY much for the information, I do appreciate your > thoughtfulness, Thia! Good luck in the Group! > > Steve > > > --- In <%40>, > Thea Hardy <thea wrote: > > > > Hi, I am new to the group. I am fighting cancer, diabetes, asthma, > > fibromyalgia and you name it. Conventional medicine has not helped me > > much, and I am very into alternative answers, still looking for > > solutions, but having some success with some things. > > > > I used to make what I called butter-oil much like Mary's mixture. I > > added a little liquid lecithin to it. Nowadays, I make ghee, which > > doesn't taste exactly like butter, but like browned butter. But I > > often use coconut oil which has lots of good, healthy fats that are > > part of a balance. I use them together. But for a spread, I think > > Mary's recipe is great - if you want it to taste less fatty, you can > > add quite a bit of milk as long as you use the liquid lecithin - it's > > not good for frying with then, but good on things, vegetables, and > > useful in most cooking. > > > > Steve, it's not really all that hard to make and it lasts well. You > > could make it faster than you could go to the store! :-) It doesn't > > taste as fatty as a lot of commercial products, and with the liquid > > lecithin (which is good for you) and milk, it's really quite mild > > from a fat standpoint. The easiest way to make it is to just let it > > get scootchy (the butter), add the oil and stuff, including a little > > salt if you do salt, and use a stab blender in a deep cup. > > > > Likewise, homemade mayonnaise, also made with the stick blender, is > > pretty darned easy and sooo good. It does take some time to make > > these things, but they are so much better for us. > > > > Just my two cents (or was that twenty!) > > > > Happy to find this group - I need you folks! > > > > Thea > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 6, 2007 Report Share Posted September 6, 2007 Thanks, Mary, Yes, as a business owner working more than full time, fighting cancer, helping raise a child, growing an organic garden, maintaining a vineyard and making wine, and adding making raw milk goat cheese to the roster lately, I can definitely say I am busy. Until you have cancer, you don't realize how much time cancer can take up with doctor visits, dealing with stress, researching, taking treatments, you name it. Even if you choose alternative treatments, which I have, it is time-consumptive. But I still have to think about my choices. And it's a process. I have to keep reprioritizing all the time, choosing my alternatives. Recently I have had to think about how I am going to deal with the time it takes for self-care and come up with solutions for streamlining. If there is a product you can buy and you can afford it (I can't always), that can be a time saver. But there are a lot of different ways to look at time, to try to reprioritize, to come up with streamlined systems. Even things like cooking for multiple meals at once and freezing so that you have a quick but tasty and healthy meal on weeknights can be a huge change. Some meals are almost as easy to make bigger batches of than just a single batch. Some are not. I am not done with alternatives for solving the problems of being busy. I would love to see what people have done to maximize their time use. It's always an issue. So Steve, I am not down on you for your choice - just personally find making the butter oil takes about five minutes max. Not seconds, but made with fresh organic butter, it's great. I am going to try including some coconut oil in this because of its health benefits. I think it will taste better, too, with some butter flavor added. Thea Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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