Using Bean water for stock? - and the calcium issue

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> I wanted to add something. For those who try

> to have an alkaline diet,

> I have been told that I should soak my beans

> and use the drained water

> to water plants

 

Oh is it good for plants? Never thought about

that. I have houseplants only (because we live in

a highrise condo) and hanging plants only

(because of my adventurous cat). Does that mean

if I over-water them I'll be singing 'kidneys are

falling on my head'?

 

> because using new cooking water

> makes the cooked beans

> more alkaline. The theory is that a an acid

> diet leaches calcium out

> of the body.

 

Now I've run across this before. I'll google on

this and see what else I can find Heaven knows

no one, least of all a woman of my age, needs to

have calcium snitched from her bones.

 

Btw, had a bit of a kerfuffle (very very mild,

since she's a gentle woman) with my doc a few

weeks back. She is sympathetic to a veggie diet

since she's lacto-vegetarian herself. But,

considering my years (don't bother to look it up

on my profile - I'm 67) and 'you're so thin'

(well, slim yes - thanks to encouragement from a

certain other of my groups LOL) she was concerned

for my bones. Haven't got the results of the bone

density scan back yet but she advised me to drink

milk. Milk?????? I pointed out that beans and

dark green veggies had calcium in 'em, but I met

a wall of (courteous) silence. Then I 'reminded'

her that soymilk had added calcium, but she still

looked skeptical.

 

'How much do you drink?'

I said 'about a cup a day.'

'Well then,' she said, 'drink TWO cups.'

 

I didn't question this reasoning, grateful to be

let off the hook so easily! LOL

 

Since then I've been wracking my brains to think

of ways to get my calcium intake up (just in

case). Always something, isn't there! Still you

never know - I might still have real bones in

this bod yet - no real reason to assume not!

 

Love and hugs, Pat

 

 

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