Look, redi-whip is the only thing that got me through gestational diabetes. Every time I desperately wanted some cake or cookies or ice cream, I would pop a mouthful of rediwhip and the world would be almost.almost okay.
Post by lazyphoque on Aug 14, 2012 15:27:59 GMT -5
I had a nutty bar and a coke for breakfast every day in college. POOR CHOICES!
Also, all of you jerks who are railing against multigrain bread need to try Brownberry Natural Health Nut bread - the little compact loaf, not the big fluffy one. Shit is delicious. Grilled cheeses like nobody's business.
Cool Whip is delicious. I like to keep it frozen and put a spoonful in my coffee mug, but I haven't done that in a while. I haven't tried it yet, but I bought a tub of TruWhip b/c it has no hfcs or hydrogenated oils, etc. I have a feeling I won't think it's as delicious.
Not a mom, so this isn't about mommy wars to me. Eat whatever you want. I try to stick with un-processed stuff as much as possible. It takes time and money and I have to work to make it a priority and do. In some ways, it's a financial decision because it's cheaper to buy a pound of uncooked beans than however many cans of cooked. Etc, etc.
Also, I love quinoa (cook it in broth instead of water), hate twinkies (zebra cakes are my jam), and I hate the sentiment that "oh, all these healthy eaters must have oreos or pizzas or lard that they eat when no one is watching." I'm not saying I never go out and have burger and fries, but I also don't hoard oreos and binge when I get bored with the kale. That mindset is as crappy as the "real" food eaters saying shit like, "wow, all that sugar must drag you down," etc.
I'm pretty on par with what LTP is saying. But I grew up eating S.H.I.T and was morbidly obese as a kid. I'm not perfect and I agree how it does turn into a mommy war thing a lot of the time but I always get defensive in these threads, not sure why.
Yeah, I feel kind of irrationally defensive, too.
This is how I eat, that's how you eat, why take jabs on either side?
I have all the books I could need, and what more could I need than books? I shall only engage in commerce if books are the coin. -- Catherynne M. Valente
Well for me, it's not one or the other. Food is very important to me. It's important to me to eat things that are as close to their natural state as possible, and organic and local when applicable. There is a balance though. I like me some peanut butter cups, and I refuse to pay for certain price jacked organic products.
What bothers me about these posts are the extremes on each side of the argument. There are a lot of options on each end the spectrum btwn squirrel food and wonderbread.
I didn't mean to imply that one shouldn't eat healthily, that they shouldn't strive to provide a decently balanced food environment for their family. I wholesale believe in doing what you can with what you have within reason.
Actually, I didn't intend for this to turn into a I only eat organic montessori educated free range grains vs fluffanutters and munchos are god's gift to mankind bragfest.
So fail on my part. Should I apologize to a hipster, a redneck, or both?
I have all the books I could need, and what more could I need than books? I shall only engage in commerce if books are the coin. -- Catherynne M. Valente
You know what's delicious/disgusting? Fried chicken skin.
I have this recipe for chicken with 40 cloves of garlic that calls for browning the chicken skin on until nice and crispy and then removing and discarding said chicken skin.
I'm sure you can imagine what actually happens to said skin and it may or may not involve my gaping maw.
Post by thebuddhagouda on Aug 14, 2012 15:50:05 GMT -5
Plain oatmeal is disgusting. I have to throw a spoonful of nutella or apple butter or some cinnamon and a drizzle of honey in there. I figure it's still better for me than the packets that are loaded with sugar.
I ate the crap out of some instant oatmeal packets all through college. Easy and requires only a microwave. Done and Done.
I would bet one meeeelion dollars there is a correlation between obsession with "real" food and weight problems. Not a 1:1 correlation -- there are people in here whom I know to be naturalist/hippy types in other aspects of life too -- but I think maybe 75% of the time people who criticize processed foods are doing it as a proxy for criticism of what the think made them fat.
Processed foods don't make people fat. Eating too much and not exercising makes people fat. Truth.
The only super-'snobby' thing that I stick to is paying attention to where my meat comes from. How it's raised, etc. Pasture-raised is the only thing that I can live with.
You know what's delicious/disgusting? Fried chicken skin.
I have this recipe for chicken with 40 cloves of garlic that calls for browning the chicken skin on until nice and crispy and then removing and discarding said chicken skin.
I'm sure you can imagine what actually happens to said skin and it may or may not involve my gaping maw.
I'm a healthy eater who likes, not loves, quinoa and agave and seedy bread, though Arnold oat is my favorite. With smartbalance butter slathered all over.
You know what's delicious/disgusting? Fried chicken skin.
I have this recipe for chicken with 40 cloves of garlic that calls for browning the chicken skin on until nice and crispy and then removing and discarding said chicken skin.
I'm sure you can imagine what actually happens to said skin and it may or may not involve my gaping maw.
Chicken with 40 cloves of garlic is the closest chicken comes to crack.
i adore this amazing cold kale salad that i found once and now i can't remember the recipe (some sort of lemony dressing and shaved parm?). but otherwise, kale is shit.
Is this it? I really like this one (and agree that raw kale is 1000x better than cooked)- I used sliced almonds instead of the breadcrumbs because I didn't feel like making my own breadcrumbs and had almonds lying around: www.101cookbooks.com/archives/raw-tuscan-kale-salad-recipe.html
I agree with Elle that part of the allure is that people think that processed foods made them fat, so getting rid of them will make them thin. From a practical perspective, it probably does-- if it takes me a full day to produce a loaf of bread, then I'm probably going to think twice before baking it, never mind whipping up my own mayo to put on top of it. So I'll eat less.
I think some of it is also an extreme interpretation of the locovore (locavore? local-eating) movement. Like, Barbara Kingsolver could make her own cheese, so why can't I? I'm not on Pinterest, but I would imagine that a lot of articles and blogs about it gain traction and spread all over the internet.
I tend to fall into this trap a lot, but it's summer and I admittedly have too much time on my hands. I was a huge Laura Ingalls fan and definitely romanticize the pioneer days with their simpler pleasures (I tend to ignore the lack of opportunities for women, the scarlet fever and intermittent plagues of locusts described in the books). But at the end of the day, I'm not going to beat myself up for buying a bagel and putting processed cream cheese on it.