Recycling - growing food in gardens, landscaping edible gardens, recycling teeth and hair

I just did a survey on Survey Monkey on recycling and natural foods and protecting the environment. Some of these companies in your survey are USA and I'm in the UK. the survey could do with a box Add 'don't know' (US stores in UK). Please tell Survey monkey. thanks.

What do I want more of? I was hunting for natural food colour, having watched a YouTube video on home made Turkish Delight using red food colour. I know that beetroot and raspberries are good red colour. (Whatever causes unwanted stains, can be used deliberately to dye food or if edible to dye foods.)

Suggestions I read were cranberries, beetroot powder, or buying from suppliers of natural products.

More Recycling
 I'm also interested in using non damaging food colour and saving your teeth from decay by not eating sugar, not pulling teeth out and not inserting putting in metal nor mercury fillings.

I don't see the point in destroying things. I'd rather save elephant tusks than destroy them which just makes the few we have left more valuable and rare. Better to make plastic ones so widespread that it's not worth the bother of catching them.

People want to donate their own human organs after they die. We should be reusing our milk teeth.

What about saving hair cut at the hairdressers.

Also running classes on recycling - reusing clothes. Schools should teach recycling. In domestic science classes, more on using leftover food, storing leftover food.

Also growing plants from the prune stones and avocado stones we throw away. Turning rose petals and flowers into edible dishes. Growing more in gardens.

A few minutes after this blog I read the news and discovered a group of Chinese women called the Long-horn Miao save their mother's and grandmother's hair to make head dresses. 

Seven a day - portions of fruit and vegetables - how?

    Seven a day seems a lot. We heard rumours years ago that seven was the ideal but that we were told five because seven would seem such a large jump that the majority of people would not even try or would try and give up.
     Cut Sugar Desserts - Eat Fruit Salad
     My late father was late onset diabetic and when he was alive and came round for a bridge evening our system was simply to have fruit salad for dessert.      
     Later another member of my family had a cancer scare. We in my family tried to follow the recommendation on the cancer research sites, UK and worldwide. the cure worked.
     Now we are back to the simple rule that everybody should eat healthily to prevent problems. But we already have a system in place for five. This is it.

Five Portions of Fruit Or Vegetables Each Day
   Breakfast - fruit salad with porridge (add because porridge anti-cholesterol)  1 portion of fruit
   Lunch - meat or fish or egg(s) with 2 vegetables and 1 fruit salad -
   Dinner - meat or fish or egg(s) with 2 vegetables; desert is and either fruit salad or half portion of cake/ dessert or fruit salad and a chocolate or small crackers with cheese
 
For elevenses and tea time either two dried apricots or a spoon of cream cheese and a glass of water. Cut out sugar in coffee. Drink semi-skimmed milk.

   On the five a day system we were indulging in extra sugar from a glass or two of wine, cheese after a meal as well as or instead of fruit, sometimes a meal out including a dessert. We weighed ourselves and if the weight went up after a meal out we were back on fruit the next day, or day three if we divided up a take away dessert.

This was adopted as a diet. I have lost weight slowly. 2014 March my weight is 64.8 which is 10 stone 3 lbs. I have to lose another half stone or stone.  I should have achieved that by the end of the year.

In terms of gym and swim, I am doing aqua swim once a week. I would lose weight faster if I went twice a week or better still every day, if I had access to an indoor pool or an outdoor pool and good weather - no snow, no rain, no smog.

Seven A Day
  Our / Your Choice
Breakfast - 1 portion of fruit.
Lunch - 2 vegetables 1 fruit
Dinner 2 vegetables 1 fruit.

You can weigh your fruit and vegetables or just go by the guidelines of one large fish sized piece or a selection of smaller ones.  Ideally have more vegetables than fruit because of the sugar in fruit.

Tips

Buy fruit and vegetables from a shopping list.

Send your most rule-following person to buy food.

Go straight to the fruit and vegetable area in the supermarket and by-pass temptation.

Order online delivery so you are not tempted.

Cut cakes into finger-size portions like a chocolate to have with coffee.

Share desserts, cakes and biscuits and bread rolls between two or three.

Restrict alcohol to after six pm, like most working Americans.

Drink only at weekends.

Cut out drink except for evening birthdays and New Year's Eve.

Restrict drinking - have a January dry month. 

Give up drink for Lent, Ramadan, Passover, whatever.

  

Moth Orchid, blue

My favourite pot plants are orchids. 

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