Hey all. I'm really sick, sorry for not posting yeaterday (didn't realize she had blogged yesterday) and today's post is boring anyway, about sprouting rice. She found some theory that oatmeal blocks digestion of nutrients. Whatever, it's just a way to take away someting else that the kids probably enjoyed. Now she ffed them sprouted rice, with just a bit of cinamon.
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Hope you are feeling better! That rice sounds nasty. I can't even imagine what it smells like after three days soaking in water on the counter. I'm thinking about doing that little experiment myself just to see what it really looks and smells like.
ReplyDeleteI'm almost starting to believe that she isn't real. She can't be, can she?
ReplyDeleteHas anyone called CPS? It's not too difficult to find her last name and hometown...
I almost gagged on my toast when I read that her rice grows a tail! Disgusting! I don't think I would ever feed my children anything that sat in water for three days and grew a freakin tail. You are totally right when you said it's just another thing she took from the kids (their oatmeal). So sad....
ReplyDeleteAnon8:04- If you have her last name/hometown and are truely that concerned, you could always call yourself!
It'll be awesome when they get fried rice diarrhea. She'll know for sure it's good for them because their bowels will be moving regularly! /sarcasm
ReplyDeleteWhy oh why does she stop reading at the first tidbit! *pounds head on desk*
I cannot believe she took away their oatmeal now. I fucking hate her.
ReplyDeleteNewsflash Emily- People have been eating Oats for THOUSANDS OF YEARS! Unlike tube meat.
Man, she does like to seize on particular ideas and then run with them, doesn't she.
ReplyDeleteThe phytic acid thing is even sort of true, but it's also not a concern for the average north american because we eat so much food that if a few nutrients get blocked it's not a big deal...oh. Yeah, maybe she should be worried. you know where phytic acid blocking nutrient absorbtion is a problem? Fucking third world countries, that's where. God.
Since she starves her family, I guess she does have to worry about the few nutrients they get getting blocked. Just sad.
ReplyDeleteShe cannot be serious.
ReplyDeleteThe one good thing in their diet that balances out all the fat in the tube meat and it's replaced with molding rice. Great. Just great. As a nursing mom, I can't believe that she would give up oatmeal, it's the gold standard of supply boosting and maintaining. Whatever. Moron.
ReplyDeleteI was thinking today on my way to work about how these authors think that they are getting such great exposure by sending Emily a free book to review, and notice how much of the review is actually about the book? Almost NONE of it! She manages to review a book and make it all about her.
That sounds really gross.
ReplyDeleteTake rice...set on counter in water for three days or so...cook...stick in fridge full of whey and various homemade cheeses for a week.
ReplyDeleteYeah, that's healthy.
rice with a tail...hmmm...sperm like!
ReplyDeletedelish!
ReplyDeleteoh sweet jeebus. Can you even imagine eating that? Rice that sits out on the counter for several days, until it grows a tail?
ReplyDeleteIt's not surprising that she didn't put up pictures.
Blech.
~Lisa
Anon 9:50 - She said in the oatmeal post that she does not eat oatmeal so who cares if she removes something with actual nutritional value from her family's diet and replace it with rice gunge.
ReplyDeleteDisgusting. I also keep wondering if she is for real, but then she writes with such earnestness (and usually photos to back up her insanity) that I think the woman really IS just this whackadoodle.
ReplyDeleteHer poor starving and filthy children, cooped up all day, never getting any fresh air or run around time, in a tiny cluttered apartment with poopy diapers and rungs hanging on the walls and dirty bedding.
She is just plain GROSS.
Why is she constantly determined to throw out the baby with the bathwater.
ReplyDeleteSupposed problem: crib mattress + mold = dangerous gases. Recommended solution: wrap mattress with a specific material. Emily's solution: toss mattress and replace with pile of blankets.
Supposed problem: substance that inhibits absorption of nutrients in oatmeal. Commonly recommended solution: soak oats overnight. Em's solution: no more oatmeal for the kids.
Sprouting rice turns it into a vegetable?!!??!
ReplyDeleteHAHAHAHHA!!!
Oh Emily. You rock.
Up next: Sprouting tube meat turns it into a vegetable too!
Okay, this is not in defense of Emily, but Germinated Brown Rice, *is* nutritionally superior. However, it should NOT have a tail and the maximum it should soak is about 20 hours, NOT 3 days. At most, the rice gets a little bit of a nub. Soaked more than 20 hours, enough to give it time to grow a tail, means it's gone too long. Blech!
ReplyDeleteI don't think most people are really objecting to the idea of soaking the rice (although yeah, not 3 days). It's more Em's way of completely replacing oatmeal (which her kids like) with soaked rice, rather than letting them have both. Why does it have to be all or nothing with her?
ReplyDeleterice that grows a tail! YUM!
ReplyDeleteI read her oatmeal post from December. She won't by steel cut oats because it costs 12 cents per serving as opposed to regular oats which cost 6 cents (or whatever). Both amounts were miniscule. My kids love steel cut oats, and they keep them full all morning. I would never take that away from them, as it's a healthy food and it gives them joy. My put nuts, apple, honey, banana and all kinds of things into it to make it tasty. She is a freak.
ReplyDeletenow people sprouting the rice is not a bog deal. remember bean sprouts? but I think it would be a bit nasty in the form she is using it. in something else would be fine.
ReplyDeletebut she eliminates all sweetener and only uses crappy cinnamon. some days all they eat is sprouted rice or oatmeal??
I notice people are starting to call her out on her stupid choices about time.
ReplyDeleteSome days all they eat is the rice? All day? Where are the fruits? Where is the balanced diet. Gross.
ReplyDeleteEmily goes on to say that they eat eggs for breakfast and the boys eat supper so the rice is for their grazing throughout the day most times and that even when all they eat is the rice it isn't uncommon for kids to go in spurts where they only eat one thing all day.
ReplyDeleteGranted that is true but that usually applies to picky kids. Her kids are not picky they apparently eat cooked pumpkin as though it is going out of style. I think the real reason some days they only eat fermented rice heated up in the microwave is because that is the only option they are given because Emily is too busy on the computer to cook something or too cheap to buy real food.
She backs herself into a corner with this crap, I can't imagine she buys anything to cook for "short order". What does she do if she's at the store longer than expected and the kids are starving and crying? Does she make them wait for the crockpot to heat up??? I can't imagine her serving a pb&j on wheat with some grapes, like I do.
ReplyDeleteNothing wrong with sprouted grains. Doesn't change them into vegetables just ups the nutrition.
ReplyDeleteAfter reading her today, I had a bowl of microwaved (Sorry Princess Jo) quick cooking Quaker oats with white sugar and whole milk. I will eat a variety of foods thru out my day including fruits and real vegetables.
She changed her story a bit about the "all they eat some days is "oatmeal"" thing.
ReplyDeleteNow she says all they eat for *lunch* is oatmeal, but they eat eggs for breakfast and whatever she cooks for dinner. This was after someone pointed out that it wasn't healthy to feed your kids nothing but 3 bowls of rice all day...
I was really thinking about the rice thing. Rice is a staple in our house, but it is NEVER eaten alone. We make a lot of Thai food served over rice, or breakfast rice with fruit and toast. I can't imagine just handing my kids a bowl of rice and saying "here's lunch!"
ReplyDeleteCome on! Even in countries where rice is the main part of a meal they add SOMETHING (other than a sprinkle of cinnamon) to the meal.
She said at one point they ALL eat eggs for breakfast. She and dna have 2 eggs each, and the boys each get one. She said some people get tired of the same thing everyday, but not HER! So this oatmeal thing makes little sense at all. Yet another Emily contradiction.
ReplyDeleteI think she actually does what she says, but I don't think they actually do it every day. I think these food ideas are experiments that she doesn't always stick with. Case in point, the box of pasta in the background of a picture she stuck on facebook in December. So they don't always eat gloodles. In other places, she is straight up contradictory. So I think her blog is partially real, but mostly a big, exaggerated fraud.
No more posts on her blog for me! She didn't publish my comment on how I think its weird she is so worried about nutrients when she doesn't feed a very varied diet (meal plan is repetitive).
ReplyDeleteMan up girl, let it go uncensored instead of trying to believe most of your readers are for you, Emily.
And I'm suprised she isn't vegitarian if she is so concerned with health and frugality- cheaper route than lots of meat and cheese
Megan M.
Next she will post about how she has stuck Brad in a rubber maid and filled it with water and she has turned him into a RICE PADDY!!
ReplyDeleteI don't have kids, but from experiences with my friends' children, I do know that they get into phases where they only eat a few things. Good parents acknowledge this and supplement with vitamins, fruit, etc. Of course, Emily doesn't do this.
ReplyDeleteHer tail rice reminds me of those capsules that turn into spongy animals when they are placed into water.
Rice with tails reminds me of maggots. I'm surprised she hasn't ended up with maggots in her lacto-fermented science projects.
ReplyDeleteOne of these days she or dna or her kids are going to get a gross bacterial infection from eating that homegrown shit in a dirty apartment.
ReplyDeleteShe's a grade A moron if she thinks Oatmeal is bad for you. She's going to need all the help reducing heart disease (which Oats help) that she can, with that high fat diet!
I also worry about the safety of all of her "cultured" products. I know that spouts of any kind are not recommended for pregnant women because of the possibility of bacterial infection.
ReplyDeleteI can't imagine they're great for small children either. It reminds me of the 90's when unpasturized juice was all the rage until kids started dying of e-coli.
It's just sad. It's like she's on this quest to make a name for herself because she can live the most like someone does in a third world country. Meanwhile, she and her family are not healthy..I'm sorry, but based off her blog posts, their lifestyle simply cannot promote that.
ReplyDeleteShe cannot be serious. Next thing you know, she will start drinking the beef after it has been left out for days like that crazy family on Wife Swap (what was that process called?).
ReplyDeleteBTW, she said that sometimes the kids ONLY eat oatmeal all day long.
ReplyDeleteUm, most kids don't do that. Most of them that are well fed. Sure, my kid might like a hamburger 3 nights in a row but I always offer him an alternative.
I made dinner for the littlest one tonight and all he wanted was Cheerios but I won't feed him Cheerios all day long (unless he is sick and that is all he wants to nibble on).
Buzzalot, it was called high meat, if I am recalling correctly.
ReplyDeletePlease, no one mention high meat to Emily, or she will be trying that next, LOL
Wild rice isn't rice, either. Shall we send her some more dictionary quotes? She seems a little fuzzy on the concept of "rice" and "not rice" - maybe we can clear than up and then move on to "vegetables" and "not vegetables"?
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