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food, glorious food...

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  • Yeah... over the past, well 8+ weeks, food has had only a utilititarian function... i don't have to force myself to eat a meal like i used to... but still... its only a means to provide me with the energy i need and only in small portions, otherwise i just feel sick.

    wow... that sounds depressing!

    • can you imagine Just How Wonderful it will taste when you enjoy eating again ?
      • Heh yeah, I suppose you are right. Like tonight... ugh... i had a boca "sausage" sandwhich... and a handful of doritos... i had about 3 doritos... they started to taste like the smell of kitty litter... blaaarrrgh!

        So... out it went... but i think i got enough sustenance to do my run :)

  • If it was possible to survive without having to eat at all, I'd never eat. Between cooking, eating and cleaning up, that's so much time I could be using to do other stuff I'd rather be doing. Food - what a waste of time :-p
  • I'm still eating bread. And I don't buy anything with that stupid Red A on it, or the words Atkins friendly.
    • Boyfriend of tuxette bakes this wonderful beer bread with lots of good things like wholegrain flour, barley flour, sunflower seeds, flaxseeds, walnuts, etc.

      They're starting to sell Atkins books in some of the supermarkets here. When I first moved here in 1994, ready-to-go food (to the extent it exists now) plus fad dieting was unheard of. And now...frozen meals, 7-11s, Atkins, and people are fatter than ever, with the situation getting worse every year. I see boys at the public pool who have BOOBS for cr

      • Someone was talking to me about "cooking" the other day and I asked what they were cooking. They were REHEATING a frozen meal, but thought since they put it in the oven it counted as cooking. I called him a heratic. :-)
        • I love to cook. That's a very *doh* statement, considering a large number of my JEs have to do with some kind of food or other :-) I love the process of selecting ingredients, chopping and mixing, and in the end enjoying the final product with a good wine or beer.

          I have yet to meet a store-bought frozen meal that comes close to anything I make on a bad day.

    • That red 'A' means... Made with sAwdust. :-) Wood flour, if you will.
    • there is one good thing about Atkins - some of his stuff is gluten free and comes in handy in a pinch.
  • Art that you can eat. :-)

    Relatively simple food is not that hard, or time-consuming. I think that there is a cultural mindset in America that suggests that one ought not to enjoy things unless in doing so one has accomplished some purpose. Perhaps an evolution of Puritanism. I find it weird. But I think that it might be the driving force behind the common attitude of not having enough time. As well as the worry about food. Buying prepared food deprives a person of the simple pleasure of preparing
    • Relatively simple food is not that hard, or time-consuming.

      That's so true! I remember watching one of Jamie Oliver's cooking shows a while back, where he made this lovely and simple pasta dish in less time than it took to bake an icky frozen lasagne (or something like that).

      I think a lot of the problem is the convenience food industry brainwashing people into thinking that cooking is difficult and time-consuming. It doesn't have to be. There are lots of good things that can be prepared in 20-30 minutes,

      • Planning also helps. That lasagne can't be made in 35 minutes. But if I make it on Sunday afternoon, I can enjoy it for three or four days (not to mention it tastes better than the frozen variety). And, since I might have cooked the lasagne noodles Saturday evening while also making spaghetti, the prep time might be less than usual.

        Tonight, while I make a steak sandwich from leftovers, I will be cooking the wild rice for tomorrow's wild rice/steak salad. If I can figure out how to make a decent soy/
    • I love my Meals in Fifteen / Thirty Minutes and have never had a bad experience with any of my attempts. The ingredients are fresh , not canned, and the food tastes wonderful. I would love to have more time and energy for cooking... and I love my slowcooker in the winter, great soups can be had with one of those.
  • I just watched Super Size Me [imdb.com] over the weekend. The thing I found the most disturbing (there are many many disturbing things in it) was one of the interviews that didn't make the final cut with the author of Fast Food Nation [amazon.com], Eric Schlosser. He said the average single burger from McDonald's is made of beef from over 1000 different cows. That's just wrong.

    I won't be going to McDonald's for a while.

  • Realize that in the near future "food processing" machines will be able to take a list of the ingredients you own, order ones you do not and than give you a list of a few 100 recipes it can conjure up. Just like the washing machine and the vacuum cleaner I think it will revolutionize the domestic world and perhaps make it a healthier place. No more man boobs!

    Food processor I would like a pickled quail, meunster, and tapenade sandwhich on russian rye. Thank you.

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