Posted on 10/01/2012 4:58:14 AM PDT by PJ-Comix
I have coupons that allowed me to buy FREE Sunflower Seed Oil. Actually it is 80% Sunflower Oil and 20% Extra-Virgin Olive Oil. I read somewhere that Sunflower Oil is the healthiest of the vegetable oils. I used it to fry onions last night and it tasted fine. So am I just fooling myself or is Sunflower Oil really healthier than regular vegetable oil?
The bottles take a lot more room on the shelf because they keep turning towards the sun.
Yummmm...pork....lol(in my best Homer Simpson voice). When I was a kid born and raised in Miss., I use to love to get fried pork skins and a dr. Pepper every day of summer at the swimming club. I was skinny as a bean pole....lol.
I like sunflower oil for most things unless I buy gourmet olive oil, which is not cheap. Just don’t like the flavor that shelf olive oil puts into foods. I love good olive oil though. I once wanted to retire and grow sunflowers, especially when I heard that Lay’s was going to sunflower oil, but not sure they are doing that anymore. My retirement fantasy was drinking sweet tea and looking off my big front porch upon acres and acres of sunflowers, grapes and lavender. So much for fantasies. Who will ever be able to retire or start a retirement business in this economy?
Swanson Vitamins - thanks! I’ll check it out!
I was born in Italy so until I came to this Country, at age 20, I was used to our cooking only with olive oil. You can imagine my confusion when I saw all the different oils here.
What to say about a bucket of Crisco....(shivers).
Crisco is great for your skin in the winter, no joke, you will not itch and will feel really good in your skin and save money over all those weird lotions too
1950’s Brits, with good teeth? Highly irregular!
So I don’t get all the panic a few years ago about coconut oil.
I use coconut oil on the skin, when I remember. It gets absorbed into your body, extra benefit. My cat though likes to lick my arms...would she like Crisco?
hahaha maybe
I’m going to see if non-hydrogenated coconut oil is available at the local supermarket. If it is, I should be able to score it for FREE via my “coupons on steroids.”
According to this article the scare in 1994 was about the use of hydrogenated coconut oil used for popcorn in movie theaters. Worth reading about the benefits of c.o.
All saturated fats were considered harmful to cardiovascular and heart health: coconut oil, butter, etc. That happened along with the big AMA and food industry push for margarine and polyunsaturated oils.
Read everyone’s replies & here’s what’s interesting. When you have birds (parrots, cockatiels, etc), you’re not supposed to feed them a lot of sunflower seeds because they’re fattening.
” Once upon a time the main substance used for frying in the USA was pork fat.”
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My Austrian grandma cooked and baked with lard. Lard made the best pie crusts and strudels. She fried potato pancakes in lard.
Grandma lived to be 90.
When I married her and moved her to North Dakota, he finally but reluctantly agreed that sunflower oil was almost as good. My wife still insists on nothing but olive oil when she cooks Italian for us.
Crisco is basically the vegetable equivalent of lard. Yuck! My dad was a veterinarian and we raised hogs, so it was genuine lard for us back when I was growing up. By the early 1970's, when I was in high school, the sunflower industry entered its first large growth spurt in North Dakota. Mama convinced him to scrap the lard in favor of sunflower oil.
AND, for pie crusts!
We used that to grease our plow blades over the winter. Other than that, death in a can. May as well add sweetners to the diet.
I have noticed that ours cats simply walk over and grab em off the ground.
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