Ep 88 Plant Based Burger Breakdown
Let’s start the blog with the show notes for this Episode –
This week I set out to get some answers about plant based burgers. They seem to be everywhere, but I didn’t know anything about them. I called on Registered Dietitian Selena DeVries for help. Selena has been on past podcast episodes, and she does a great job breaking down the nutrition and ingredients in the new plant based burgers. I took it upon myself to try one on the barbeque at home, to get my reaction as well as those of my husband and daughter. Listen after the interview with Selena to hear my opinion about cooking up one of these burgers at home and trying it for the first time.
You can find Selena online at www.healthbean.ca or email her at selena@healthbean.ca.
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Baking Website – https://www.suesglutenfreebaking.com
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Email – sue@suesglutenfreebaking.com
Other Podcast – Gluten Free Weigh In – https://glutenfreeweighin.libsyn.com
My Thoughts –
I do get excited about new foods. I can’t remember if this was something that happened prior to my diagnosis, or it’s a phenomenon of being on the gluten free diet and always on the look out for new food options.
I remember when I first started going to the national conferences for the Canadian Celiac Association. At the time, I lived outside of Canada, so I arranged a family visit and time at the conference to be able to learn more about how to cope. I brought Deanna with me to a conference that had a children’s program in Hamilton and she met another celiac girl of a similar age, who also had a celiac mother. The girls became fast friends, and I couldn’t have predicted it, but they always told each other when they found new foods. Imagine, two young girls, under age 10 spending the time to talk about food finds.
When I first heard about the plant based burger, I dismissed it as something that was likely not gluten free, and only available at fast food outlets, which was problematic for me. I was wrong, the new burgers are gluten free and are now widely available.
Having said that, just because something is gluten free, available and others seem to like it, doesn’t mean it’s for me. This was one time that I could have the new latest thing, and I wasn’t very impressed. What does that say about me and my diet, and my love of food. I think it says I’ve become picky as I’ve grown in my gluten free diet. Just because I can have something, doesn’t mean I should, or that I should like it. I hope you try the plant based burgers, maybe it fills a gap for you and is something you can add to your diet. It’s a personal thing, and that’s just fine with me.