Welcome to our second installment of Ask Jack, featuring the prodigious culinary talents of professional holistic chef Jack McNulty answering food-related questions generated by you, our community. Check out the show notes below that dig deeper into the topics covered on this episode. Set your dials to this station when Ask Jack #3 premieres on July 21, 2021, just in time to get great cooking tips for summer fun (at least for our listeners in the Northern Hemisphere)! Don’t forget to submit your questions for Jack by emailing them to podcast@overcomingms.org.   Now, on to this episode’s topics and questions:   What Shall I Eat?   First, a question from Annemieke in the Netherlands about peanuts, though what she’s asking about is no small matter for many of you:   In Dutch cooking, peanut butter sauce is quite common. To make the sauce you peanut butter. In stores, 100% peanut butter from raw peanuts is available and is unprocessed. BUT, on the OMS website it says: peanuts are defined as a ground nut and not recommended due to their higher saturated fat content. Some people replace the peanut butter with sunflower butter, tahini (sesame seed butter), cashew butter or almond butter or a mix of those four. But I’m confused about the sat fat and Omega 3/6 content of these different nuts and seeds versus peanuts. Jack, is it really a problem to have some peanut butter (from 100% raw peanuts) since we can eat also tahini, sunflower seeds and cashew nuts?   From Kiril in Bulgaria, let’s get to the slippery topic of oils:   Can we use grapeseed oil? And is it OK for baking too?   From Nick in Lincoln, Rhode Island, an important question about a really trending topic – plant-based meat alternatives:   Jack, are impossible burgers OK for people with MS who want to follow an anti-inflammatory diet?   Now on to canned foods, with a question from Duarte in Poland:   What's your view on canned legumes and fruits? Are there some to avoid? If so, which ones?   Helpful Tips and Cooking Techniques   From Marie in the United Kingdom, a question about coconut milk replacements:   She uses coconut essence and oat milk, but these don’t quite hit the mark. Any recommendations, Jack?   Still on the coconut theme, here’s a question from Ann, from the OMS Circle in Hertfordshire, UK:   What are some suitable substitutes for coconut oil in vegan recipes? Unlike coconut oil, olive oil doesn’t always work due to being liquid at room temperature. Jack, what do you think?   This other question from Marie in the UK may activate some pleasure centers in our listener’s food brains:   On the subject of chips, or French Fries for our American friends, she never used to eat them but her family, who also follow the OMS diet, often request them and she hasn’t succeeded to get them to really crisp up. Jack, any helpful tips?   Fun Recipe Ideas   Here’s a question from a listener in the UK on sour cream:   How can you make it at home in a whole food, plant-based way? Jack, any thoughts?   Now on to something we find very tasty here in the UK, but which isn’t always OMS-friendly: Yorkshire Pudding. Ann, from the OMS Circle in Hertfordshire, wanted to know:   Any recipe suggestions for OMS-compliant Yorkshire Puddings which replicate as near as possible the original in which the batter contains eggs and fat.  A particular member of her Circle in Hertfordshire always complains that everything she tries leads to Yorkshire Puddings as “flat as pancakes!” Jack, any tips?   Since we are on a sweets kick, Ann had another question that might be relevant to many of our listeners who love to bake:   How do you make cakes taste light and moist when many of the ingredients needed to do so aren’t OMS-friendly?   And let’s end this episode on a crunchy note:   Jack, do you have any recipe ideas for gluten-free crackers and snacks, or anything savory that packs a crunch?   Bonus Content from Jack:   The Bottom Line on Peanut Butter   Even though you shouldn’t u