Hello everyone,
Here's the situation; I'm on a financial really tigth budget. I lift weigths (although it feels like I'm not really pushing that hard and/or doing much) and lately I've noticed that I lost more retented water?(don't know if it's bc of protein in general or B6 since I seem to crave some specific high B6 foods like banana,chickenbreast etc.)/look more defined when I ate some more protein than I did. I still have no clue if I'm eating enough protein,so bc of my situation I'm looking for good cheap general foods&proteinrich.
(I'm even thinking that I should go back to eating more veggies in order to get more nutrients in.:/ )
So,I've got a couple of questions to look out for when shopping and trying to save some money. (I didn't make seperate threads for each question,since I thougth that would be a bit unnecessary.)
1.) What foods are ok non-organic/non-pastured grassfed etc. and what foods are too toxic regular? Like I'm personally still wary&don't buy non-organic cowmilk&dairy,but is it legit bc I've heard several times that especially regular (skim).milk&dairy is estrogenic. Is that true?should I stick with purely organic regarding dairy? (I do buy goatcheese non-organic but I think it's less toxic bc goats generally don't get fed grains and stuff.)
2.) How about other proteins? I know it's said that animals store toxins in their fat except for pigs,so would conventional lower fat meats be ok? And what about eggs if I'd only eat the eggwhites,would the chicken's diet still matter?
3) Commercial chickenbreast usually lists PUFAS between 0.3 to 1grams per 100gram (depending on the brand. Is the fat/PUFAS only in these white pieces&strands? so,if I'd cut it away it's gone....or is the fat/PUFAS also in the pink flesh?
It's not just PUFAS in general but chicken&turkey contain mostly O-6 Pufas even organic and I've noticed that the past couple of days I've been eating quite some Alaska Pollock bc it's cheap and berries (not together) and I noticed I always feel more positive afterwards,so I looked it up at Cronometer and it said that the little PUFA it contains is mostly O-3. So,I think the Paleo crowd migth be rigth in regards to O-3 and O-6,migth be why most people have problems with nuts bc it's not just high in PUFAS but the O-6 kind.
4) Unfortunately the ethnic market where I go to get Lamb Liver rarely has some bc it's always sold out fast. So,at the regular supermarket I saw Beef Heart which was really cheap but from conventional raised cattle. Would that be a problem?
What I saw on the label,they listed 2grams of fat per 100gram of which 0,7 saturated,0,7MUFA and 0,2PUFAS. But when added you only get 1,6grams of fat,so what's the remaining 0,4....trans-fats? I see this kind of thing on more labels,why do they do that?
5) I sometimes see on bodybuilding channels that they use yoghurt,cottage cheese or quark?/soft-curd cheese? to use in sauces instead of sourcream and such. I figured it's great to get some extra protein&calcium in,but I was wondering if the heating kills the pro-biotic bacteria? bc that would suck.
6) Are there people here who use commercial gelatin(powder or sheets)? Bc it seems most conventional gelatin is made from pork and I'm kind of wary of porkproducts bc of it's inflammatory abillities.
As for fruit&veggies I'd think that most that can be peeled are safer to buy non-organic? (apart from the ripeness issue)
And if people have more protein and general food/nutrition saving tips,lower fat/high protein recipes etc.,please feel free to post them.:)
(I'm sorry if this is kind of a messy post.)
Here's the situation; I'm on a financial really tigth budget. I lift weigths (although it feels like I'm not really pushing that hard and/or doing much) and lately I've noticed that I lost more retented water?(don't know if it's bc of protein in general or B6 since I seem to crave some specific high B6 foods like banana,chickenbreast etc.)/look more defined when I ate some more protein than I did. I still have no clue if I'm eating enough protein,so bc of my situation I'm looking for good cheap general foods&proteinrich.
(I'm even thinking that I should go back to eating more veggies in order to get more nutrients in.:/ )
So,I've got a couple of questions to look out for when shopping and trying to save some money. (I didn't make seperate threads for each question,since I thougth that would be a bit unnecessary.)
1.) What foods are ok non-organic/non-pastured grassfed etc. and what foods are too toxic regular? Like I'm personally still wary&don't buy non-organic cowmilk&dairy,but is it legit bc I've heard several times that especially regular (skim).milk&dairy is estrogenic. Is that true?should I stick with purely organic regarding dairy? (I do buy goatcheese non-organic but I think it's less toxic bc goats generally don't get fed grains and stuff.)
2.) How about other proteins? I know it's said that animals store toxins in their fat except for pigs,so would conventional lower fat meats be ok? And what about eggs if I'd only eat the eggwhites,would the chicken's diet still matter?
3) Commercial chickenbreast usually lists PUFAS between 0.3 to 1grams per 100gram (depending on the brand. Is the fat/PUFAS only in these white pieces&strands? so,if I'd cut it away it's gone....or is the fat/PUFAS also in the pink flesh?
It's not just PUFAS in general but chicken&turkey contain mostly O-6 Pufas even organic and I've noticed that the past couple of days I've been eating quite some Alaska Pollock bc it's cheap and berries (not together) and I noticed I always feel more positive afterwards,so I looked it up at Cronometer and it said that the little PUFA it contains is mostly O-3. So,I think the Paleo crowd migth be rigth in regards to O-3 and O-6,migth be why most people have problems with nuts bc it's not just high in PUFAS but the O-6 kind.
4) Unfortunately the ethnic market where I go to get Lamb Liver rarely has some bc it's always sold out fast. So,at the regular supermarket I saw Beef Heart which was really cheap but from conventional raised cattle. Would that be a problem?
What I saw on the label,they listed 2grams of fat per 100gram of which 0,7 saturated,0,7MUFA and 0,2PUFAS. But when added you only get 1,6grams of fat,so what's the remaining 0,4....trans-fats? I see this kind of thing on more labels,why do they do that?
5) I sometimes see on bodybuilding channels that they use yoghurt,cottage cheese or quark?/soft-curd cheese? to use in sauces instead of sourcream and such. I figured it's great to get some extra protein&calcium in,but I was wondering if the heating kills the pro-biotic bacteria? bc that would suck.
6) Are there people here who use commercial gelatin(powder or sheets)? Bc it seems most conventional gelatin is made from pork and I'm kind of wary of porkproducts bc of it's inflammatory abillities.
As for fruit&veggies I'd think that most that can be peeled are safer to buy non-organic? (apart from the ripeness issue)
And if people have more protein and general food/nutrition saving tips,lower fat/high protein recipes etc.,please feel free to post them.:)
(I'm sorry if this is kind of a messy post.)