off to buy a meat grinder attachment for my kitchen aid at bed bath and beyond with my 20% coupons it should come to $40.
I can't wait to start using it.
I read all the articles you guys posted (thank you sharon) and I was convinced and grossed out.
My stop and shop always has turkey tenderloin on sale (with coupons attached) and I never buy it b/c I have no clue what to do with it...but now I'll buy it and make turkey burgers and meatballs! :)
I went to my butcher and priced out Chuck meat and tenderloin and it wasn't bad pricewise.
so thanks! I already told my youngest (who likes to buy lunch) that he is no longer allowed to buy the hamburgers there when it's offered on that day.
I also signed the petition to clean up our school lunches.
still sooooo grossed out. I know there are so many additives in our foods but this one just completely sent me over the edge in the gross factor. 1|1|meat grinder! I should get one too|cinda68|lacinda68@gmail.com|12:39:06|03/15/2012|
I didn't read all the comments in that thread but a meat grinder sounds like a great idea. If I get one, will have to be a stand-alone because I don't have a kitchen-aid.
Oh, for more gross out food info, just saw this today:
And now, a look at some typical foodiness ingredients that are packaged, flavored and presented as food:
1. TBHQ, a.k.a Butane
Turns out Butane isn’t just for lighters anymore – it’s also an artificial anti-oxidant that they put it in chicken nuggets to keep them “fresh” tasting. So instead of your chicken nuggets being fresh, Butane keeps them “fresh." Eating butane probably wasn’t what you had in mind last time you lit up, got the munchies, and ordered those nuggets.
Found in: Frozen, packaged or pre-made processed foods with long shelf lives such as frozen meals, crackers, chips, cereal bars and fast food.
2. Estrogen:
Regular milk is full of hormones used by the milk industry to keep the cows knocked up and lactating all year round. Sound gross? It is. So when you drink regular milk you take a shot of hormones with it. And all you wanted was a bowl of cereal.
Found in: All non-organic dairy.
3. Spinach dust:
Think that green sheen on your veggie snacks is giving you your daily serving of vegetables? Think again. That’s just powdered spinach dust, which is spinach that has been dehydrated and sucked dry of its nutritional value. So the upshot is that green sheen is about as nutritious as actual dust.
Found in: “Healthier” vegetable flavored snack foods.
4. Propylene glycol, a.k.a antifreeze:
Antifreeze is used in cars, pills, cosmetics, deodorant, moisturizer…and food! It keeps your car from freezing over, your moisturizer moist, and your fat free cookie dough ice cream creamy, smooth and juicy. If it’s good enough for your SUV it’s good enough to eat, right? Right?? Right???
Found in: Cake mix, salad dressings, low fat ice creams and dog food.
5. Wood Pulp: Vanillin
Vanillin, which is a byproduct of the pulp industry, is used as an artificial vanilla flavor. Ester of wood rosin, which comes from pine stumps, is in citrus-flavored sodas to keep the citrus flavor evenly distributed through the can. And you thought you stopped eating paper when you gave up dropping acid.
Found in: Artificially flavored yogurt, baked goods, candy and sodas
6. Castoreum:
Castoreum comes out of a beaver’s behind – it’s extracted from their anal glands — and is used to make artificial raspberry flavoring. Try not to think about that next time you order the diet raspberry tea.
Found in: Artificially raspberry flavored products such as cheap ice cream, Jell-O, candy, fruit flavored drinks, teas and yogurts.
2|2|where can I buy a meat grinder?|pattyo|pattyolc@aol.com|14:58:16|03/15/2012|
Dh said he won't eat store bought beef anymore.. I have a food processer but it won't come out in a form you can make patties..right? more like chopped so need a grinder cuz I need to make my own sausage too..AMAZON? or ???
PLEASE INCLUDE USERNAME WHEN INQUIRING ABOUT FORMS IF I DON'T KNOW YOU..THANKS 3|3|I'd check Amazon....or just google shop it....see what you come up with...hey, maybe even Cabela's would have them?|saint6811|waylan@comcast.net|15:03:01|03/15/2012|
" You'll get what's coming to you ... Unless it was mailed."
4|4|WOW Cabelas has quite some and even electric ! AHH|pattyo|pattyolc@aol.com|15:14:38|03/15/2012|
You are a peach even tho you don't live in GA!
PLEASE INCLUDE USERNAME WHEN INQUIRING ABOUT FORMS IF I DON'T KNOW YOU..THANKS 5|5|LOL! I was just thinking of how the hunters probably want to process some meat themselves....|saint6811|waylan@comcast.net|15:56:04|03/15/2012|
" You'll get what's coming to you ... Unless it was mailed."
6|1|You're very welcome Jilda!....|Sharon|corvettelady@lavabit.com|23:37:31|03/15/2012|
Yes, it's very, very gross what they're doing to our food and it won't be the end of it either. Sometimes I wish this was all just a nightmare! This is all to keep us sick and keep the companies pockets full of $$$. 7|2|can't sell pills to healthy people|cinda68|lacinda68@gmail.com|12:16:47|03/16/2012|
I agree, meant to keep us sick or at the very least, subdued.