Thought you guys would like this re: real foods

[textbookcase]

I follow "100 Days of Real Food" on FB, and the comments are always full of one-upsmanship. This was in the comments today on a post about food to take camping:

"We LOVE camping!!! When we camp, I make a batch of homemade graham crackers and homemade marshmallows made with grass-fed gelatin(great lakes brand) and we buy some good quality chocolate. When you use really good quality chocolate, it really doesn't take much...just a bit of chocolate. We also like to make them on homemade chocolate graham crackers. YUM! I can't wait for the weather to cool off so we can go camp!"

[papie]

LOL

Did she also grow the chickens that gave her the eggs she made the crackers with? And what about the milk in the chocolate? Does that come from her own grass fed organic cows?

[bab]

This kind of nonsense just makes me SMH. (and lol)

[papie]

Aug 15, 2012 9:37:33 GMT -5 Que? said:

Homemade marshmallows? Come ON.

I bought some at a fancy candy store and it was the best thing ever. It is on my list for Christmas candy. But yeah, not for camping marshamllows, lol

[lazyphoque]

I really want those s'mores to be served after a hearty meal of bar-s hot dogs on wonder buns smothered in hormel chili with a side of heinz baked beans.

Even I can't imagine taking the time to make marshmallows for s'mores, and I've made marshmallows in the past!

[WOT?*]

Marshmallows aren't that difficult to make and they do taste different (fresher and fluffier) than store-bought but for $1.99 give me chemicals. (Ditto for graham crackers, minus the fluffier part.)

She sounds like a holier-than-thou pretentious ass.

[Deleted]

I can see my sister being this way in a couple of years. She's gotten a very superior attitude about food lately.

[textbookcase]

I've made marshmallows, and they are simple and delicious (esp. in hot chocolate!) but for camping s'mores? Please!

[textbookcase]

Aug 15, 2012 9:42:40 GMT -5 kevin arnold said:

Did they sleep in tents that they wove of organice hemp, and sleeping bags of wool shorn from their pasture-raised sheep? NO. They probably bought a Coleman tent made from petroleum byproducts.

HIPPYCRITES! (That's a hypocrite hippy.)

hah!

[Deleted]

I dunno, guys, store marshmallows can be dangerous.

[lissaholly]

Ha! This post was meant for me! I made some smore cookies. Homemade graham cookies (nothing cracker about these!) cut out in small circles with homemade marshmallows set on top and then dipped in chocolate. I am ridiculously proud but have had no in to bring this up!

But no, not real food.

[bleubook]

Dude...this shit just annoys me.
I mean yes, I love to cook, and I'm damn good at it, and YES I enjoy making as many things from scratch as possible....but I also have a career and a lot of other obligations outside of my home, and I'll be dammed if I feel guilty for occasionally using the convenient foods that helped get me there in the first place. I love a home made marshmallow too, but the whole point of smores is to eat a yummy simple dessert made by the campfire.

[Deleted]

That almost sounds like someone fucking with everyone, but probably isn't.

[eightangryreindeer]

Notice the delayed gratification element here?

Not living in the moment?

If your fucking s'mores are so fucking wonderful and are going to bring World Peace, WHY WAIT TO GO CAMPING???

[Deleted]

My mom does that "I'm going to eat something bad, but talk about it like it's so rare!"

My H and I have turned this into a joke. Nearly every time we went out to eat lunch with my parents my mom would comment that she was going to get a cheeseburger because she just hadn't had one for such a long time. She once said this three times in a month.

I was out to breakfast with family just the other day and she decided she was going to have chicken fried steak for breakfast. "It's been a really long time since I've had something like that."

I know this is partially because my sister was there and my sister has become pretty snobby about food and about red meat and processed food in particular.

My mom always feels like she has to make excuses for what she's eating.

ETA: Sorry, I meant this for the other "real foods" thread. More context for this post there!

[sporklemotion]

This reminds me of the Toaster Project- a performance artist decided to try to build a toaster from scratch and then wrote a book about it.

This is what he produced (sorry that the image is huge):


I'm laughing that she isn't even actually going camping yet, just getting ready to do so in the future.

[Deleted]

What about the sticks they skewered the marshmallows with? How can she be absolutely POSITIVE they were pesticide free? Hmm?

[sonrisa]

"If you use good chocolate it only takes a little" [paraphrasing]

Yeah, cut back on chocolate and smores are super healthy.