Jean-Luc has some opinions with regards to some passages of Kevin Trudeau’s “Natural Cures “They” Don’t Want You to Know About”, available for reading in the café. This book brings up many interesting issues, which he would like to discuss, and so he invites those who read this to draw their own conclusions about the validity of Trudeau’s standpoint.
Trudeau makes some excellent points about the effects of eating processed food products. Buying cheap, brand name foods means compromising the quality of what you eat. For example, buying a cheap cake instead of one made at a bakery has many downsides. Cheap cakes feature a lot of sugar, preservatives, and food dyes. They are cheap because their ingredients are cheap, and very often this means they are unhealthy. This is the case for more than cakes. Bread, chocolate, donuts, and chips are now commonly made using a great deal of shortening and vegetable oils. You may save money, but in the long run you are doing your body injustice by filling it with so much junk food instead of giving it the nutrition it would gain by replacing fatty snacks with fruit. Soft drinks are another item that would be healthier to avoid. Bottled water is a smarter alternative, as it hydrates your body without introducing chemicals and excess sugar. Buying quality drinks and food made from scratch greatly reduces the amount of unnecessary trans fat, preservatives, and chemicals you ingest.
Some of Trudeau’s other suggestions seem to take healthy eating too far to be practical. He strongly recommends that all the food we eat should be organic. However, finding the time and the money that may be required to get a hold of all strictly organic foods may not work into your agenda. Jean-Luc feels that it is much more sensible to focus on eating foods that are made from scratch and contain healthy ingredients, and buy organic foods only when they are available and reasonably priced.
Trudeau also feels that frozen food can be unhealthy. Jean-Luc says that there is nothing wrong with freezing food, so long as the food was made with healthy ingredients to begin with. Buying good quality frozen food can save time when you lead a busy life, and so it is not necessary to sacrifice this habit in order to have a healthy, as well as a busy, lifestyle.
So what are healthy ingredients? Trudeau has set himself against any ingredient that is man-made, or artificially modified. Jean-Luc believes that the key to avoiding these products is to aim for natural products that you might not realize are healthy. For example, using natural butter is much healthier than using low-fat margarine, which is one of those artificial ingredients Trudeau claims are so unhealthy. Using natural virgin olive oil is a great alternative to highly processed brand name cooking oils. Both Trudeau and Jean-Luc recognize that chocolate in itself is quite a healthy food, if it is made from true cocoa butter, but because cheap candy bars are so full of sugar and preservatives it is often considered in a negative light. Satisfy chocolate cravings with genuine dark chocolate and you will have no reason to feel guilty for the indulgence.
The real goal behind all of this is to be healthy. The easiest and simplest answer is just to eat and live healthy, and enjoy yourself along the way. Take walks in the fresh air. Eat what you like without excess. It isn’t necessary to spend time and money perfecting a health regime, just be sure you’re happy with the food you eat and the life you lead.
Our Promise To You…
We know our customers deserve only the best, and we are pleased to be able to offer the exceptional quality that you have come to expect from Patisserie D’Or. To assure you receive the finest products, we must consistently use only the finest of ingredients. From savory specialties to delectable desserts, every item in our cabinets is hand made with attention to details, both in what we put into our products and what you get out of them.
Our first responsibility is to the health of our customers. We are sensitive to the wishes of those who are concerned with their intake of fat. For this reason we do not use any shortening, emulsifiers, vegetable oils or trans-fats which do not get digested by your body. Instead we use only sweet natural butter, giving our croissants the wonderful flaky consistency that melts in your mouth. Your taste buds and your waistline will both thank you for choosing Patisserie D’Or.
One of the world’s most alluring aromas is the scent of fresh warm bread, and you are free to indulge in this simple delight when you are confident that the bread is fat-free. Some bakeries will add shortening to their breads to extend their shelf lives, but that is a compromise of quality we are unwilling to make. We invite you to let your tongue enjoy what your nose has been tempting you with.
Chocolate is one of those unique ingredients with the power to charm nearly anyone with its rich, subtle flavours that speak of leisure and decadence. We are proud to be able to say we use only pure chocolate couverture, not less expensive coating chocolate. Couverture has cocoa butter in it, a natural product of the cocoa bean, whereas coating chocolate is made with shortening. Taste the difference truly fine chocolate makes to any pastry.
Typical “baked” foods from other bakeries are often full of preservatives, food colourings, shortening, oils and other scary things. At Patisserie D’Or you will discover a world apart from these modern shortcuts. We are a bakery with a heart. We care about the food we make, because it is the food you eat, and we strive to be certain that every bite will exceed your expectations in quality and flavour. This is our promise to you.
