Breakfast Monday 5 July 2021

[irisblue]

coffee first, I'll figure out something later

[gademocrat7]

1. Coffee and cream now

Banana bread later.

[MissMillie]

2. leftover fried rice

w/ a couple of eggs on it

coffee


(I may even have a piece of pie--it came out good.)

[NJCher]

3. ooh the orange creamsicle pie!

Yes, that sounded so good.

Bran muffin tops, yogurt, and blueberries.

Will toast the muffin tops on the range.

[MissMillie]

5. no, the apple strawberry-rhubarb pie

The creamsicle pie is for my birthday at the end of the month

strawberry-rhubarb is Al's favorite. We got a great deal on strawberries at Aldi las week, and my Dad has rhubarb in his yard.

[MontanaMama]

6. I love when you post about leftover rice for breakfast.

I make too much rice on purpose so we can leftovers with scrambled eggs and cheese in it on the weekends. It’s a favorite around here.

[NJCher]

7. are you doing the rice soaking thing?

to get the arsenic out? That was posted in C & B a while back.

It also calls for using organic rice, such as Lundbergh's (not sure I have that brand name exactly right). That starts out lower in arsenic.

Soaking overnight gets out 81% of the arsenic.

I recently made some and froze it. I've been buying it at WF frozen, but wanted to be sure with the arsenic thing, so I figured I'd better do it myself.

Also I learned (boohoo), no more buying Chex mix or Rice Krispy treats because they use rice loaded with arsenic.

[MontanaMama]

8. Yes! I soak our rice.

And buy organic too. It’s so much for expensive..at least it is here…but worth it, IMO. I buy it in bulk at the Good Food Store to save a little bit.

I think most cereals have a crap ton of arsenic in them. So does apple juice and sauce. What we’ve done to our planet…

ETA: Consumer’s Report did an issue on arsenic in our foods a few years back…it was alarming to sat the least.

[NJCher]

10. I did't know about the apple juice and sauce

However, I will check into that.

One thing about the rice, though, is that it does this naturally. But we add to it to make it worse.

Kinda' weird, I think, but that's what the articles I read said.

[MontanaMama]

11. I believe you're correct

in that rice has organic arsenic in it on its own...and yes, we make it worse with the past applications of inorganic arsenic from pesticide use.

Here's some of the CR article arsenic in apple and grape juice:

Arsenic has long been recognized as a poison and a contaminant in drinking water, but now concerns are growing about arsenic in foods, especially in fruit juices that are a mainstay for children.

Controversy over arsenic in apple juice made headlines as the school year began when Mehmet Oz, M.D., host of “The Dr. Oz Show,” told viewers that tests he’d commissioned found 10 of three dozen apple-juice samples with total arsenic levels exceeding 10 parts per billion (ppb). There’s no federal arsenic threshold for juice or most foods, though the limit for bottled and public water is 10 ppb. The Food and Drug Administration, trying to reassure consumers about the safety of apple juice, claimed that most arsenic in juices and other foods is of the organic type that is “essentially harmless.”

But an investigation by Consumer Reports shows otherwise. Our study, including tests of apple and grape juice (download a PDF of our complete test results), a scientific analysis of federal health data, a consumer poll, and interviews with doctors and other experts, finds the following:

Roughly 10 percent of our juice samples, from five brands, had total arsenic levels that exceeded federal drinking-water standards. Most of that arsenic was inorganic arsenic, a known carcinogen.
One in four samples had lead levels higher than the FDA’s bottled-water limit of 5 ppb. As with arsenic, no federal limit exists for lead in juice.
Apple and grape juice constitute a significant source of dietary exposure to arsenic, according to our analysis of federal health data from 2003 through 2008.
Children drink a lot of juice. Thirty-five percent of children 5 and younger drink juice in quantities exceeding pediatricians’ recommendations, our poll of parents shows.
Mounting scientific evidence suggests that chronic exposure to arsenic and lead even at levels below water standards can result in serious health problems.
Inorganic arsenic has been detected at disturbing levels in other foods, too, which suggests that more must be done to reduce overall dietary exposure.

More at link: https://www.consumerreports.org/arsenic-in-food/arsenic-in-your-juice-apple-juice-grape-juice/

[Luciferous]

4. Turkey sandwich, wanted something quick

[Yonnie3]

9. Good morning irisblue

I thought I posted hours ago. I must have forgot to hit that post button.

Coffee and pulled pork on a slider roll.

I am tired because the explosions continued until after 1 am. There was also some yelling (cursing) at the folks setting them off. FLFC is into fireworks and would go to the door and ask to go see. He stares in rapture at the flashes in the sky. It's my belief that he dreams of assaulting his enemy the buzzards with fireworks.