Really Wanted to Say Something to the Woman with the Costco Sized Vegetable Oil in Her Cart

#1

I resisted, mostly because she was on a different line and I was way ahead and even for a busybody it would have been too much rudeness on my part. I was at Costco, there was a woman and her 10 year old daughter buying groceries. She had the mega size double bottles of vegetable oil in her cart. It literally said “Vegetable Oil” no idea what brand and does it matter?

She looked to be in her early 40s with a BMI of over 35 and many of the hallmarks of metabolic synrdrome. She had some fancy brand of water in her cart so it was not a financial thing as far as I could tell. I want to suggest she research vegetable oil but of course I did not.

I tell all my friends, even if you do nothing, give up seed oils and sugar. Meanwhile I did think back over the last 10 years. Even pre keto I mostly cooked with olive oil. I did not use vegetable oil and have not for years yet I know I was unhealthy.I rarely added sugar to my food either although I did use honey. Still vegetable oil was in all the prepared foods I ate so maybe that was enough to make me unhealthy? Supposedly even a small amount of transfat in a day is unhealthy. I have no idea

(Empress of the Unexpected) #2

You are on the right track! Tell everyone you are close to to give up seed oils, sugars and starches. Keto on and your body will heal itself of anything you have done in the past. It takes time. But as far as advising strangers? I live in an area where every woman seems to be way overweight, and I see that in their grocery carts. Everyone seems to think vegetable oil is healthy - partly because that is the majority of what is on the shelf. Change one person and you have changed the world - but start with your inner circle. I am doing that with a neighbor right now - she is close, but has to give up the endless crackers. Her breakfast is pure keto - eggs and avocado. Dinner is salmon and salad with oil and vinegar. She just has a cheese and cracker thing going on meanwhile. Cheese, no crackers - she becomes keto!

(Ellie) #3

I buy the big Costco vegetable oil. The ones that are so big that they come in a cardboard box. I usually buy 6-8 at a time.
…but I use it as fuel for a Mitsubishi Delica that we have that runs on veg oil instead of diesel!!
You pour it straight into the tank and off you go. It is far cheaper than diesel in the UK at about 70p per litre rather than £1.36!

(Allie) #4

That’s the best use I’ve heard of :joy:

(Ellie) #5

Well you would want to EAT it would you?! :grin:

(Allie) #6

Hell no! :open_mouth:
My other half insists on using it… makes me shudder, also makes me glad I do all my own cooking.

#7

I’ve been through just about every stage, led like a lamb to slaughter (for a while) through the various health phases.

There was the

Butter is good, lard is bad
then
butter is bad, lard is worse, margarine is excellent and sunflower oil is good
then
sunflower is good, margarine is the only thing to use
then
hmm, maybe olive oil AND margarine?
then
olive oil is better cos sunflower goes rancid
then
rapseed oil is the new kid on the block
then
er… maybe olive oil is being adulterated
then
ditch the polyuns and switch to monos, and try coconut
then
coconut is The Devil
then
butter in coffee?!?!?!?!
then
sat fat isn’t the devil we thought…
then
ditch the veg oils
then
coconut is a persecuted superfood but may impact the environment
then
sat fat is GOOD for you
then

Fuck it I will eat what I like (which is butter and meat fat) because that is what my grreatgreatgrandparents ate, and they did OK.

It’ll be another scare story or superfood announcement next week, but I won’t bother to read it.

(Sheri Knauer) #8

I see that all the time at Costco and I would say that about 90% of the Costco shoppers always have those croissants the size of a childs head in their carts too. The worst is when you see someone with their flatbed cart with 4 or 5 boxes of that liquid creamy shortening, which is creamed soybean oil with tBHQ added, and you know they are buying it to use in their restaurants (which is why I rarely go out to eat). I always imagine myself walking up to someones cart with my kids, taking things out and explaining to my kids why this is so bad for them, then putting it back in their cart. Of course I would never do that. One of these days Im going to get a group of friends together, go to costco, have them put all that junky stuff in their cart, and I’ll make that video with their help. One time I watched a lady with a jar of the kirkland peanut butter (just peanuts and salt) in one hand and a jar of Jif in the other reading the labels. She put the kirkland peanut butter back on the shelf and the jar of JIF in her cart. Did she not see that the JIF had sugar and hydrogenated soybean oil in it? argh!

(less is more, more or less) #9

This. So much this.

I’d still like to see more research on how food affects us, as this nascent field has helped me with valuable input, but yea, lie to me once, shame on you, lie to me twice, shame on me.

#10

That would be amazing! You should definitely do this!

#11

Just yesterday, I went to work and another guy that usually gets there the same time I do, Friday morning, was running late, so I was giving him a hard time about it.

He told me he was late because he was planning on making an omelet for breakfast, had everything out and ready, then realized he didn’t have any vegetable oil, only butter. So he had to put everything back, and ate cereal instead.

WWWWHHHHHAAAATTTTT!?!?!?!?!?!?!?

I about hit the floor!

I DID NOT hold my tongue (of course I work with him, not just some random stranger at the store). Told him to ditch the vegetable oil and use butter instead. Told him to stay away from the trans fats.

I couldn’t believe he skipped an omelet cooked with butter, to eat cold cereal instead. MY GOD, WHAT HAVE WE BECOME?

IMO, this is an argument against evolution! Or maybe, WE are the fittest, and evolving to survive. That actually makes sense. :wink:

(Empress of the Unexpected) #12

How did he respond when you told him to ditch the vegetable oil?

(Wendy) #13

Read Nina Teicholz’s The Big Fat Surprise for the research. She spent 9 years doing the research and explains it SO well.

#14

Honestly don’t know if it made any difference. Some people are so far gone, they’ll never here the truth. :frowning_face:

I did say at least use olive oil or avocado oil next time. We didn’t have an in-depth conversation or anything, but hopefully I planted a seed for him to consider the next time he’s at the store.

(Empress of the Unexpected) #15

I’m reading that right now! Eye-opening!

(Wendy) #16

I find it so helpful to read the books that show the studies that support this way of eating. When someone criticizes how I’m eating (which really doesn’t happen often for me) I am secure in knowing I am following the best I can the real science. I’m not afraid of nay sayers and then of course there are the results we see in ourselves.

(Empress of the Unexpected) #17

I’m lucky cause I guess no one cares how I am eating. Except for one friend who says it will “catch up with me” some day! Can’t wait to get my next blood test and show her my normalized triglycerides. That will be the day it “catches up with me!”! :rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:. And this friend has a list of disorders a mile long including pre diabetes .

(Wendy) #18

Isn’t it funny that NOBODY said anything to us when we were eating SAD? No one once said even, “Gee your gaining weight.” Or looked at me and said I can’t belive your eating all those chips. :smiley:

(Empress of the Unexpected) #19

I know, that part is so frustrating. We are eating a much healthier diet! They are eating cinnamon rolls, etc.

#20

Not only did they say nothing then, but they’re definitely not saying anything to me, now. Probably out of guilt, I can only hope.

Anyway, I hope to believe that they are just waiting for enough time to pass and finally realize this way of life is sticking, and it’s not just another fad diet, then maybe they’ll want to ask me more. (Backstory: I work with several people who went on diets a couple of years ago and lost a lot of weight only to gain it all back. So weight loss is nothing new, it’s keeping it off that’s the question.)