list junk food dressed up for yuppies who are too smart for junk food

Jamba Juice

granola
any soy product that would be considered 'junky' if made with real milk - chocolate soy milk, soy ice cream, etc.

http://www.robscape.com/gifs/products/smart-puffs.jpg

any soy product that would be considered 'junky' if made with real milk - chocolate soy milk, soy ice cream, etc.

ANYTHING @ FOODSWINGS!!!!

see also:
http://www.goodhealthnaturalfoods.com/pictures/stixpg/Vstixlg.jpg
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ANYTHING @ FOODSWINGS!!!!

do you really think anyone goes to foodswings thinking they're about to eat healthy?

also, shasta OTM about most energy / protein bars -- you think you are eating smart when it's really a 500 calorie sneak attack

foodswings is fucking horrible! i am convinced that vegans just hate food and thus try to make it as unappetizing as possible.

do you really think anyone goes to foodswings thinking they're about to eat healthy?

FIXED

hahaha

the vegans i know hate foodswings, too. one told me in all seriousness that he'd rather have a burger than go there.

Foodswings = missed connection central

the vegans i know hate foodswings, too. one told me in all seriousness that he'd rather have a burger than go there.

I wager that your friends don't define themselves by their dietary and bicycle asceticism.

The health food aisle in the grocery store is like 75% organic potato chips & cookies.

The Frappucino. Seems like it would be obvious - but I see so many women drinkin them that look like they would never in a million years order a chocolate milkshake

ah, see jordan, most stores have renamed it the "natural foods" aisle so they can't be accused of calling it health food when it's not healthy.

i think i am guilty of this because i had SOY mac & cheese for lunch today??

elmo, are you lactose intolerant? if so it's ok.

I'm trying to avoid carb loading all the time. I met a dude who looked like a thin Irmin Schmidt from Can Free Conecert who told me that you should always be hungry.

Jamba Juice is absurd. Just because it's sort of healthy to drink a six ounce glass of juice doesn't mean it's healthy to drink five of them mixed with sherbert in one sitting.

bell labs, i am not but i am trying to cut down on animal fats (except bacon)

i am guilty of the soy mac and also tofutti cuties are my secret shame.

tofutti cuties 8080

yeah tofutti cuties are seriously addicting...

but honestly i know they're not healthy and do not eat them to try and fool myself, regular ice cream just makes stomach sad.

i crave the soy cheese pizza from viva herbal on 2nd avenue.

how eat something called tofutti?

tofutti p-orridge?

lol

weird i was xplaining how bad things like bocca burgers and tofu pups are for you last night

re: s shastas powerbar truths!: a few xcellent lines in nick toshe's sushi story in vanity fair last month about the silliness that is powerbars and the not healthyness of "sushi" in general (in you kids didn't read that story go somewhere and do it....starts a bit rough but its great)

my lady freind pointed out how hillarious genius tofurkey is....faux turkey...

Are bocca burgers THAT bad? I know they must be when I cook them with tons of olive oil

"healthy" fat-kid gas-station foods imply more self-loathing than regular fat-kid gas-station foods, true / false?

http://www.reallynatural.com/archives/pictures/FLnatcheetos-thumb.jpg

i say true. seriously, you're eating cheetos! who are you kidding?!

I've never seen those!

tofurkey just makes me think of turducken, which i am much more interested in trying.

yes!!!!

boca burgers is owned by philip morris

Re frappucino: they're not that much like milkshakes in that they're made with crushed ice instead of blended ice cream. Which is why they're basically not creamy, it's just frozen water and not fat for that lovely lovely mouth-feel.

they have a dairy mix as a base, i believe.

certain foods being not as healthy as advertised is really not shocking at all! and honestly it probably is better for you to eat the all-natural cheetos just to avoid preservatives & dubious cheese color.

Hmmm that could be. I think I've never had one...? But those blenders they put in are deffo made for ice, that shit is hardcore.

boca burgers is owned by philip morris

O_o @ cosmos

probably a good place to re-link to that NYT article that was discussed a while back

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/28/magazine/28nutritionism.t.html?ei=5088&en=7c85a1c254546157&ex=1327640400&pagewanted=all

SMARTFOOD

the thing is bocca burgers are just full of odd processed stuff and wheat gluten and so on...one occasionally is fine, but people that think theyre being healthy or ethical are deluding themselves. their junk food and poor substitute for meat...

turducken is fantastic...but really a bit much...its fun and tastey, but kind of a waste. you really would be better off with 4 seperate small portions of well cooked birds.

what's wrong with gluten? i mean, provided you don't have celiac disease

nothing really wrong there, just not "good" for you. our bodies don't love wheat to begin with but, (like anything) in moderation it won't come near hurting you..

i worked in a veggie freindly kitchen for a while...the problem with this stuff is that you get people that "want" to be "vegetarian" but dont do the work to find out how to eat that way or change their lifestyle....they think they can just eat these meat substitutes and its good for them....the same people wouldnt eat hotdogs for every meal, but when they see "morningstar farms" on the box they think theyre doing something different and/or decent.

Isn't it generally bad for :

boca burgers is owned by philip morris

-- and what, Wednesday, June 13, 2007 6:58 PM (2 hours ago)

It's called Altria and they even own your poop.

Actually, I forgot that the Kraft Foods division was spun off, so your poop may be under a separate corporate entity now.

ben otm re: veggies. my sister and her fiance are very serious about eating well-balanced meals but for every couple like that, there are probably 10+ people who eat too many carbs/cheese/etc. on a daily basis just because they are easily accessible foods without meat. i definitely ran into this problem in college when my dorm offered a "vegetarian" choice at every meal, but that choice was usually cheese lasagna, eggplant parm, or something equally as unhealthy and lacking in balanced nutrition. they had a salad bar, too, but i think their veggies were coated in some kind of preservative or pesticide because i could not eat the lettuce without being ill afterwards :-\

Those baked cheetos are actully pretty good but they seriously disappoint in the leave-your-fingers-covered-in-awesomeness department.

oh god food service salad bar.

I try to eat raw fruit or veggies now with ever meal

of course i am drinking HFCS RIGHT NOW :(

According to Starbucks, a 16 oz Caramel Frappuccino with *whip*=

430 calories
16 g fat
10 g sat. fat
52 g sugar

Maybe not *quite* as bad as a milkshake, but pretty bad.

BTW a 16 oz BURGER KING shake is actually healthier, with about the same level of calories & fat but no saturated fat. (god knows what's in it)

bell labs, i am not but i am trying to cut down on animal fats (except bacon)

-- elmo argonaut, Wednesday, June 13, 2007 6:47 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Link

haha, me too. i've cut down on meat in a big way, mostly because it's expensive and a pain in the ass to prepare. basically i just buy bacon and eat it on the weekend, in burritos.

if i could afford the fish out here, though, i'd eat that shit 94/7

also: that michael pollan article is great.

space age polymers, bro xpost

yeah i do not understand frappacinos at all and how they are considered a beverage - i see women holding on to this hueg cup and i'm like that's food, that's practically a meal!
i also have a thing about big take-out cups. they are weird.

yoga told me to be a vegetarian and then it told me to eat some chicken the other day so i did and now i seem fine again with being sometime-veg whatever. i don't really believe in most packaged food in the first place <-- obv (also, not a yuppie)

see also: lattes. soooo much milk - surely that's enough protein and other stuff to tide you over for many hours, not to accompany a meal, right?!
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Also lattes are pricy if you buy them a couple times a week.

also if you're putting caramel in something that something is a dessert

i am no fun :(

xpost people be liking to spend money on dumb stuff they think is cool cf headbands

except for the cool headbands

and the cool coffee

i guess

iced coffee poured into a plastic bag and frozen into the shape of a headband

dot jpeg

and getting r@ped by don cheney

people in brazil eat a lot of stuff that's not great for you -- juice with every meal, cheese and meat like crazy, loads of starches, loads of sugar, big portions. but they're all in amazing shape because they all play soccer and volleyball and lift weights and go rollerblading.

i want to play soccer

i've been drinking acai a lot -- it's very caloric, but a big one makes a filling lunch on a hot day.

acai?

i want to be in brazil i think

rrrobyn i am playing soccer in exactly one hour! i just joined an "adult" league ("adult" -- i got randomly assigned to a team and i think i might be the only person who can buy beer)

you would have a good time here, rrrobyn

not just a berry, a lifestyle!
http://www.acairoots.com/

i was going to start a rooftop soccer league but it fell through.

since people got arrested on roof

omg that would have been awesome

whoa the world of acai!

y'know i think there's an indie rock soccer scene here on wed nights (but usually i'm busy wed nights anyway) but you know my feelings on indie rock. and scenes.

i need to adopt a bunch of kids or something like in a movie and then have a soccer team

we would live on a big rooftop

we would also be spies

some of us would be robots

we would drink regular water and eat oranges not vitamin orange hydrasuperinfused water
maybe we would have a dog

air bud: world pup

no not that dog

a black one!

Also my roommate was supposed to train for the olympic soccer team

there is a law firm soccer league but fuck that, those guys are annoying at work, i don't wanna see em afterwards, too! also, i suck at soccer :(

playing soccer with lawyers sounds about as much fun as playing ultimate frisbee with government workers

by which i mean you don't feel so bad when they get hurt

lolz

The whole concept of a "superfood" is another dumb American idea that only confuses people about being healthy.

http://www.bevnet.com/images/reviews/odwalla/odwalla-superfood.jpg

or super
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the pic on that is pretty interstellar hippie though

hey shasta i love that shit by i try to limit myself to just a bottle a month now.

when i feel like i'm getting a cold/flu/sore throat i buy the big bottle with the handle and have nothing else all day.

spiiiiruliiiiinnnaaaaa

everybody is on the money. i could read this thread all day. i seriously have a work-eating problem lately. i am eating waaaaaaay too much crap. and just way too much in general. i don't know what's wrong with me. must be stress. or something. yesterday at work, i ate an entire bag of chocolate biscotti and then later ate an entire tub of kozy shack tapioca pudding. and i had 2 coca cola. and a bag of chips. oh, and a sandwich in there somewhere (lean roast beef and jarlsberg and spicy mustard on a bagel).

i need more good things disguised/dressed up as good things. so many bags of heavy laundry to lift all night though. gotta keep my strength up!

oh and i am also doing that thing where i just drink coffee till noon and don't eat anything. and then finally i remember to eat something. and then go to work. my day is weird!

sorry for the complaints.

gotta run!

(i eat better on my days off. and i cook nice things for the fam.)

I had CORN tonight.

..

...

NOM NOM NOM

microwavable bags of vegetables have saved me from junkfood worklunch death , i tend to eat a whole bag at lunch with a small serving of protein or something. balsamic vinegar, lemon juice, & kosher seasalt at my desk at work now, haha.

I bought a box of organic corn flakes tonight, that say they're 'coated in cane sugar for flavor' or something.

Unhealthy, but at least it isn't loaded with HFCS like Kellogg's (hueg disappointment, dry corn flakes are my favorite snack food ever).

ok, so one good thing about bodegas vs. expensive manhattan delis:

25 cent bags of chips = you can eat a whole bag and not be a fat fuck

fuck you huge bag of chips

yeah, fuck you dorito breath

also fuck you yuppie douchebag who went studs up on me and then flopped when my running = him tripping over his own feet.

although LOL when he called me Skippy McElbows

actually not really

i eats whole bags of chips ALL THE TIME.
when do iget fattey?
did i tell you guys about how a dude at the pizza place yesterday told me i reminded him of napoleon dynamite? he says to me, "wow you got a good appetite!" and i say "yeah, this is the first i've eaten all day." (it is 3:30.) He mumbles to himself for a few minutes about his backpack, and says "you know who you remind me of? uhm, uh, etc." finally he's like "you know, thbat movie.. napoleon dynamite, yeah! that was a good movie. it made you like, watch it, yaknow?" (he repeated this last sentence about 5 times.) then he goes on to explain that the character in the film eats a lot and doesn't gain weight, and he guesses i'm like that too.

He told told me his name was Carlos, and that I was "friendlier than most white people."

Vote for Carlos

Ian I'm not worried about getting fat from eating chips, just spoiling my appetite for other food!

http://www.cannabisculture.com/forums/uploads/18199.jpg

that was a good movie. it made you like, watch it, yaknow?

ha. excellent thing to say about a movie.

i wish this movie would just get out of my face and let me eat my fucking popcorn already

he was more elaborate about it, too. he was all "ya know, i was at home, so i coulda flipped the channel or got up or somethin..."

here's that sushi article that B2 mentions upthread

http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2007/06/sushi200706

those "natural" cheetos mentioned way upthread are really really tasty

Nick Tosches research in that VF article is as sketchy as the research for his Jerry Lee Lewis bio.

Nick Tosches scares me.

He's totally compelling in an evil-M White I-am-getting-v-sleepy/I-must-do-his-bidding kind of way.

Hmm alto looking at GIS mebbe not so much -- but was thinking of this photo:

http://images.barnesandnoble.com/pimages/writers/images/ToschesNick_1l.jpg

the same people wouldnt eat hotdogs for every meal,

wait is this bad

what if they're kosher

he has TH EBEST AUTHOR PHOTO EVER..

but hes creepy. he used to hang out at the lakeside and date one of the bartenders...

shasta's correct on the research end..but i dont xpect an experts view outta that guy...its a fun little piece that gives you somewhere to go and think...and definately provides an angle to reconsider what you think you know.

lips and asso's, pal...but tastey

I prefer to believe that kosher hot dogs are not made out of lips & assholes.

Don't stop believing.

Only the forequarters of the animal are used for kosher processing, including the chuck, rib, navel, brisket and shank. From these pieces, specialists carefully remove the veins, arteries and certain non-acceptable fats. Best Kosher Foods products are made with pure kosher beef from the finest cuts of cattle and use no fillers, extenders or MSG. One can be assured that only the highest quality meat is used in the kosher manufacturing process.

(Jewish propaganda?!)

i like veggie burgers. But I like just grilling a portabello more

xpost Yeah I just found that myself via google. I nevah knew.

http://www.hebrewnational.com/images/pages/kosher/kosher_nonkosher.gif

Even flank and sirloin aren't kosher. Weird.

Yeah man kosher hot dogs are the bomb for quality but suffer in taste b/c no pork products were harmed in the eating of this dog.

I too wd date Tosches if he were less than thirty years older than me -- but then I wdln't have a choice after the Power of Stare was applied, obv.

I cannot believe that kosher butchering wastes a WHOLE HALF A COW god talk about bad stewardship of resources, but okay go ahead and starve in the desert you legendary dumbasses. At least part of that is because when Jacob wrestled the angel, he was struck in the err thigh and lamed for life...so the part of the cow that corresponds to that tendon and the surrounding human musculature is TREYFE.

According to something else I just read, it's not actually unkosher to eat the hindquarters, it's just really fucking hard to properly kosher the hindquarters so it's usually not done. I do hope they sell the halves to the non-kosher meat plant down the street or something.

but suffer in taste b/c no pork products were harmed in the eating of this dog.

RONG

xpost, Laurel your honorary Jewishness is getting out of hand

My beef with Tosches' VF article:

1) His incorrect presumption that edomae (Tokyo style, nigiri-style) sushi is something with centuries of history (esp. with the middle classes) when edomae sushi is probably 60 years of history with the middle classes in Tokyo, def. post WW2.

2) Therefore spending 1,000 words tracing the roots of sushi in English language publications (wow a Library Of Congress keyword search!).

3) His incorrect presumption that sushi means = raw fish. Sushi = su + shi = su + meishi = vinegar and rice. The kanji (chinese character) for sushi is more like "rice snack" which he does actually find reference to in his Library of Congress search for earliest reference, but he somewhat dismisses because the reference predates edomae sushi and was historically correct, but he's taken an unconsciously ahistorical revisionist angle.

Then there's little matters of cultural translation such as him mistaking someone's politeness as an affirmation of fact, or another's frugalness and value as a wholescale declaration of preference. Including a kaiseki restaurant (one of my faves) as one of the keystones in an article on sushi is a completely ill-advised miss.

Some of that stuff is totally amateurish

i'm gonna read it anyway

It's def. readable, just need to keep some things in mind when he's digging deep in his research googlebar.

Jordan: I have no idea what yr talking about. U meshugga.

Anyway the part about Jake wrestling the angel is pure Old Testament stuff, I learned about that as a good little evangelical long before I got my Honorary Jewess card.

Anyway that's why you can't get a real filet mignon at a kosher steakhouse.

i have been eating a lot more sort of sugary food than usual lately. had this berry + granola + skyr yogurt parfait for lunch, which is basically like having dessert and made me really tired - i should know better!

scott my favorite good food disguised as dessert is fage greek yogurt 0% or 2% with like a little bit of honey and a banana sliced in, maybe some walnuts too. that stuff is great. super rich but low fat, low calorie, high protein.

i like veggie burgers that are made of soy and actual vegetables, though i'm not a fan of those boca vegan fake meat texture things.

i went vegetarian again lately for the most part (other than eating up some frozen fish i already had so as not to waste it) and trying to figure out what to cook that isn't high carb is a challenge - i already make tofu, seitan, tempeh.. what else? i had some natto at a sushi place in georgetown & it was pretty good but i can't seem to find any to buy in the stores

Laurel I just mean you know more about it than I do, cio

Of course I know more about it than you do, I think it's fascinating and has nothing to do with my life and you think it's a plague visited upon you for your mother's sins.

i have never been to a kosher steakhouse!
i don't even know if i've ever been to a steakhouse? (not counting the keg in highschool)

for lunch today i ate a salad of organic mixed greens and some org tofu that i cut up and poured soy sauce, wasibi and sesame oil over and then put in the salad. then i ate half a banana and a few almonds. this is kinda nothing new but it is not junk food health food. now i am writing about anatomy of teh gut.

Sigh. Stewed lentils and an apple. Lunch.

power bars are not candy bars

how much protein is in a snickers

i had a roast beef sandwich for lunch but it was on MULTI-GRAIN bread.

i had fatty roast pork stuffed into a fried sesame pancake with cucumber, carrot, and cilantro. i win!

cilantro = U LOSE

i had some trader joes peanut satay noodles and sauce. 21% of my daily allowance of sodium

excuse me, waiter
i prefer guacamole
sans leafy dish soap

rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrobyn, et al

recently ive just been buying a thing of the fresh tofu, pressing the little cakes between some clean towels with one of my bros hueg architecture books, then marinading in tamari, some sort of chili sauce, sesame oil and whatever makes sense for a few hours, then cubing and baking at 400 for 40 minutes. i then toss that over whatever greens for salads for lunches all week...4 bucks total cost, at best...and solidly filling, low fat, low simple carbs, et...

of course, now i just want lauren's lunch...

i did just have two cookies...goddamn this office and its constant supply of baked goods at oppurtune moments

course you could just buy the preped stuff at any asian market, but..

laurel why u hate tasty??

less than $4, i think! tofu=$2, green=$5 for giant tub thing that last several meals!

i also want lauren's lunch

i totally forgot to put cilantro in my salad and i even have it :/

"Initially medical practitioners viewed the stomach as an active, almost thinking agent in the body. Galen saw the stomach as an animate being that could feel its own emptiness and generate the sensation of hunger, writing: 'Nature has granted to the stomach alone and particularly to the parts of it near its mouth the ability to feel a lack which rouses the animal and stimulates it to seek food.'"

O soapy green leaves
once again I extract you
from my burrito

apropos of nothing much, i am in love with the head chef at vanessa's (the dumpling shop). he has long elvis sideburns and wears his paper hat at a jaunty angle. and he makes a mean sesame pancake sandwich.

Of course I know more about it than you do, I think it's fascinating and has nothing to do with my life and you think it's a plague visited upon you for your mother's sins.

Not how I would put it exactly, but OTM :(

Cilantro rulez.

haiku form!
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oh man sesame pancakes and dudes

tall asian vaguely rockabilly dudes + fried sesame pancakes = yay

i'm out of food and still out of money. i'm going to raid my laundry bag in hopes of finding some change then i'll hike down to the produce mart and get some fruit. tomorrow can't come soon enough.

laurel not liking cilantro braek herat.

ha i just googled vanessa's dumpling shop and momus' blog came up!

i must go there regardless.

(i get tofu for a buck, and buy a head of green leaf for another, and some spinachette for about 2...so splitting marinade A dressing over a few weeks/months/other meals, thats 4 a week for me. i usually get something else around 3...today its left over zuccini and a touch of a pork chop...but i eat about 5 small meals a day)

she had stewed lentils for lunch, that pretty much establishes that laurel hates flavor

Oh man you do not know! These are curried lentils with bacon and fresh tomatoes and madras curry and chix stock and I stirred some sour cream in for variation. They are YUM.

!!!

i stand corrected!

i always put coconut milk and curry in my dahl so therefore delicious (i have never called this 'stewed lentils'! maybe it's different somehow)

though bacon, whoa next level

Lauren gave out the recipe! I actually simplified it cos I never have celery, and I think she used better meat (pancetta?). I think mine is a culinary bastard, what with pork AND curry AND sour cream. But I like it.

actually, i used smoked raw bacon from a polish butcher. definitely better than supermarket bacon, and probably cheaper!

but bacon is tasty in almost all guises.

Yeah, I buy Boar's Head so it's at least a reasonable bacon and not like made in a factory. Dice while frozen, brown in bottom of stewpot, add veg, add lentils. Simmer. EAT.

turkey bacon is definitely not bacon, tho. it is greasy, unpalatable reconstituted bird parts, shabbily disguised as the king of foods.

haha, everyone, Laurel has a mouth defect that makes her taste cilantro rong!

(note: not liking cilantro, btw, is sort of unique in the world of not-liking-foods. some people literally taste it WRONG, which is why it tastes all soapy to poor suckers like Laurel and totally fantastic to me. it's actually a taste you'll never acquire, L, cuz yr mouth is broek! you guys probably already knew this, but whatever)

BTW honorary Jews (also people who convert) always know more about Judaism than born Jews, probably for the reason that Laurel said.

Yes I know! And I'm actually not clear on whether I have the genetic trait or it's just gross to me...? I took those haikus from ihatecilantro.com so they are not necc autobiographical. :D I haven't gone back and tried to analyze it in a while because GROSS but as I recall it tastes very GREEN to me, and metallic. Kind of like how pot smells...? I dislike both.

i could never ever date a cilantro hater.

sorry Laurel, at what could have been. RIP never forget etc.

BTW honorary Jews (also people who convert) always know more about Judaism than born Jews, probably for the reason that Laurel said.

Yea, What's the deal with converted Jews making a big deal about being Jewish?

re cilantro: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phenylthiocarbamide

yeah i'm with steve. i love cilantro in practically everything.

laurel how do you eat indian food????????????????

Does anyone know where to get cheese in Williamsburg?

i could never ever date a cilantro hater.

i used to live with a cilantro hater. no big deal, you adjust, make concessions etc.

I don't put cilantro in my curries for a reason, Ev! At restaurants I ask if it can be served without that garnish, or if the leaves are big enough I pick them out.

shut up kevin. standards are important.

oh river wolf!

i mean, i'm already basically assaulted by available women all day, i might as well draw the line somewhere

Also I always always hold the pico, but that's also b/c I dislike onions. I will dice up some tomatoes & mash an avocado on my own at home.

Is okay, rw, we knew it was not meant to be also because I love cites and hate psych folk/rock/anything. ;______;

OK THIS IS GOING TOO FAR

TOO FAR OFF TOPIC MAYBE

it is so funny how laurel and i are alike in so many ways (and she is graetest) and then suddenly boom there are 5 things in a row we are not alike on!

i just ate fish curry and i put a lot of cilantro in it p.s.

now u maek poo poo?

cilantro is great and these people are insane:

http://www.ihatecilantro.com/

http://i15.tinypic.com/5y7nvyd.png

Also I always always hold the pico, but that's also b/c I dislike onions. I will dice up some tomatoes & mash an avocado on my own at home.

-- Laurel, Thursday, June 14, 2007 10:09 PM (23 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

Is okay, rw, we knew it was not meant to be also because I love cites and hate psych folk/rock/anything. ;______;

-- Laurel, Thursday, June 14, 2007 10:12 PM (21 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

Well gosh, you must eat a lot of white bread and listen to a lot of David Sanborn then.

And what's the deal with people from the midwest being bland?

RONG

i like veggie burgers. But I like just grilling a portabello more

portabello is great to grill! if you marinate in balsamic or something it gets all juicy - is like the steak of vegetarianism!

i lived with a cilantro hater which was mostly ok cause we generally cooked our own stuff anyway and when she did cook for me it was always delicious. the only times i got really really sad was when she would make this awesome salsa. would have been million times more awesomer with cilantro :(

jon, ew - my digestive system is cool with all this
i eat a lot of vegetables

you know what's a good addition to salsa? chipotle

I have two foods that I think I must have a genetic aversion to - canned tuna fish and hard-boiled/deviled eggs.

my ex from 2002 added this to wikipedia:

==Trivia==

* Fritos (original and barbeque flavor) contain no animal products, and are a staple for vegan snack-lovers.

* Fritos also is a slang term for marijuana.

* The oil on Fritos is very flammable, and can be used as kindling or a small torch.

* Frito pie is a traditional dish made with Fritos, chili, cheese, and onions in the Southern and Southwestern United States, particularly Texas.

whatever, i had frito pie served to me in HIGH SCHOOL, and you ate it out of the fucking bag

shit is certifiably delicious, btw

actually, i used smoked raw bacon from a polish butcher. definitely better than supermarket bacon, and probably cheaper!

one of the best things about gpoint is picking my own bacon...from a variety of levels.

dudes did i tell you i made yogurt this week?

b/c a friend gave me her yogurt maker
it is good yogurt

i am so tired right now. i probably need some spirulina
but my chapter is pretty much done (am rearranged things but am soon going to get to ah fuckit point) - 31 pages!

i even went and saw a rock show (simply saucer) from 11:30 to, like, 2 am. which in retrospect was kind of a nuts thing to do.

i just feel sorry for people who don't like cilantro (as i once did)

Oh bring it on.

i'll bet there's a News From Lake Wobegon about proper Lutherans who deny themselves the exotic pleasures of pico de gallo

except for the couple who secretly make tacos at midnight in their candlelit basement once each winter

Don't be silly, everyone eats tacos. They're Old El Paso seasoning on ground beef piled into a hard corn shell and topped with jack cheese, tomatoes, and iceberg lettuce. Duh.

Ah, the food of my youth.

is Laurel me?

We'll find out tomorrow!!

fritos on hot dogs with chili = winnnn

Pico El Gallo

i'm not big on cilantro. maybe my mouth is broken. i don't mind when it's a part of a recipe, but i kinda started to get mad when i would go to restaurants and they would just dump it all over my food and i had no knowledge beforehand that they would be doing this. i mean, a garnish is one thing, but a lot of cilantro tends to make stuff taste like cilantro. at indian places i would know to expect it and sometimes i would even tell them not to put it on top, but i went to one of those "gourmet" pizza places once and ordered a regular pizza and when it came to the table it was covered in cilantro!!!! wtf!!! that is just WRONG. sorry. i mean, if it had said on the menu COVERED IN CILANTO i never would have opted for that. but by all means, throw as much garlic into my "smashed" potatos as you want. no problem there.

now i never eat out, so these things aren't a problem anymore.

lol parenthood

wait, rrrobyn... SIMPLY SAUCER?
are they... touring?

my mom is allergic to cilantro in a weird way, it gives her canker sores.

not to derail but i read that think bb linked to yesterday (http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2007/06/sushi200706)

that market sounds amazing. so does Sugiyama. anyone been there? lauren? bb? shasta? i KNOW Shasta must have been.

i've been everywhere in that article many times. i've known Masa since 1992 (!!!) when he was in LA. Lauren almost had a chance to meet the chef their a couple weeks ago when i went to the pig knuckle restaurant.

sansky, what's your email?

^^^ i figured this would be the case

i had the same reaction as sanskrit, and now i double want to go to japan

i even had sushis for dinner, but the owner wasn't there so i couldn't ask him about how he gets his fish

re: simply saucer - i don't know if they're touring but they did this show for the suoni fest here - it was pretty good! i liked the rock out psych guitar parts more than the straight-up rock - they were nice guys too :)

rrrobyn where kin i hear yer music? is it on a myspace page?

HAHA JEWS DISCARDING BEST PART OF COW

judaism can surely be wacky, but they haven't come up with anything as wacky as that whole breast-feeding your co-workers fatwa lately.

islam 1

jews 0

let's go chosen people!

scott, www.myspace.com/triceratreetops :)
(but we made a cdr recently too that is higher bitrate/quality/longer jams)

"i'm working on it! sheesh, what's the rush already?"

http://www.conncoll.edu/academics/departments/relstudies/290/judaism/rebbeprayer.jpg

cool, rrrobyn! i'll check it out.

such a great band name

i found a healthier alternative for all you vitamin water addicts:

http://www.knudsenjuices.com/products/detail.aspx?groupID=10&categoryID=56&flavorID=416&productID=520

contains actual organic fruit juice (50%) and no added sugar, unlike your coca-cola vitamin water.

and the best part: it's $1.50 for 32oz. at trader joe's, half the price of vitamin water.

that has more sugar/calories than vitamin water

17 g vs 13 g

maybe because the sugar comes from the juice? there's no added sugar in it.

vitamin water's sugar is all additives.

totally guilty of drinking vitamin waters and eating clif bars like they ward off cancer, even though it is a basic marriage of sugar and vitamins. also guilty of being vegan, but i've always been a food-o-matic.

add kettle-cooked chips (mmm) and dreyer's whole fruit bars, it is like diabeetus is an impending doom.

holy gees, that nyt magazine article was great! And totally just well-written, to boot. (There is a cover story that I happened upon in the latest Washington City Paper about the honeybees disappearing, and apparently one of the culprits is...high fructose corn syrup that many of the larger-scale beekeepers feed their bees!)

I am veg, but generally avoid the Boca Burger spectrum of veg foods. I enjoy the taste and whatnot of the various meat analogues that are available pretty much anywhere these days, but tend to avoid them because of a. priceyness, and, b. although after eating them I feel like I have consumed my needed quota of protein, I also feel curiously unnourished, in a way that I think is only possible after eating a foodstuff that is so processed. Whereas if I eat plain ol' rice and beans, I feel much better overall. At any rate, I can't stress enough how much I think that article was onthemark.

Thing about cilantro is, from my experiences, sometimes if you buy it or consume it, it is past its prime or something, and then has an unflattering nasty metallic taste. I love cilantro for the most part, though. I wonder if maybe some people's dislike is based on being subjected to bad batches and resulting memories thereof?...But I dunno, really.

Go to Trader Joe's and buy the Greek yogurt products on offer. That stuff is soGood!

Oh, also...despite my coming down on the Boca-type products, I can highly recommend the Beer Brats made by the people who make Tofurky. Served with some decent sauerkraut, it is way, way good. Maybe because it is (as their advertising states) made with "real tofu", and not random soy isolates or whatever?
http://www.tofurky.com/products/sausages.htm">=http://www.tofurky.com/products/sausages.htm

uh, don't click on the blue text, or death will ensue.

contains actual organic fruit juice (50%) and no added sugar

"actual fruit juice" is highly overrated - it leaves the the healthiest parts of the fruit behind. Sugar comes from "actual sugar cane" too, and corn syrup from "actual corn"

not that this is any kind of shocker or anything but: spending the afternoon in the wound clinic last week really made it clear how much of a problem diabetes is and will continue to be in the country. saw a bunch of older folks with wounds on their feet that flatly refuse to heal (even after months), in part because there's little to no sensation, and ppl keep reinjuring themselves. also in part because of poor vasculature, etc.

i took a digger the other day that earned me some cuts and bruises that'll be gone in a few days. same stuff would hang around for weeks/months in some diabetics. you and i are like wolverine!

shit is going to get worse here before it gets better. noize dads (and nathalie)! don't let yr kids eat shit or they're gonna have their feet cut off when they're 50!

rrrobyn where can i get this cdr? i want more triceratreetops! in fact, i mentioned to ian and lindsay the other night that charalambides show would have been like 300% more awesome had you guys been touring with and opening for them!

yeah i would like a cd-r too

I had some *tofu skin* (the top layers of tofu or something). Shit if I know what it's called, my mom said it was healthy and I thought it was extremely yummy. I'm getting tired of her "It's good because it's healthy" line. Sometimes I don't fucking care whether it's healthy or not, as long as my taste buds (heheh) don't scream murder, I'm happy.

Or sth.

Shit if I know what it's called,

okara (not to be confused with okura)

we talked a lot about umami this wkend for some reason. pos b/c we ate a lot of food and were talking abt food in general, but mostly healthy non-packaged food (so much organic farm-fresh vegetable matter yaay. also steak & sausages - kosher? i do not know.) i learned that putting salt on tomatoes = umami! that is why it tastes so good, the salt addition makes umami

re: CDR : you can get cdr from me :) there are v limited quantites (it is only 20 min long - 2 songs. there is weirdo cover art). you have to do this thing which is called email/facebook/myspace msg tho ooh

i swam in a lake a lot this wkend and also stripped paint off a cottage and painted a bit too - the former is kind of a lot of work, at least in the heat, but it's cool to get a job done. and then there is food/bbqs and gin&tonics/beer and lake to swim in

oh and okay so i do not buy into this yuppie health food junk food but one thing that is good, i have found, is the chocolate bar thing made by larabar - oh, it's definitely dessert-like but it's sweetened with dates and is not full of chemical nonsense

beware of the umami false grail... it usually ends up with MSG and that misses the whole point.

You sure, Steve. I looked it up and it doesn't mention uh... the skin like texture of it. I asked my mom. She'll know. God, I miss that. Really yummy.

Steve, it's called yuba.

putting salt on tomatoes

what a horrible thing to do to a tomato!

you are insane

i mean boring

you've never had a good tomato

"actual organic fruit juice" = first ingredient is apple juice = we used apple juice as our sugar water substitute, since it's mostly sugar water

or maybe you've never had good salt

Y, if and only if "good" = all.

I drank a Bossa Nova Acai-Blueberry juice today. It was REALLY tasty, and its primary ingredients are actual acai juice and actual blueberry.

The bottle had a chart on the back about how much higher acai is in antioxidants than other fruits - great. But according to the nutrition info, it does not appear that most of those antioxidants actually survive the juicing process.

Very clever, Bossa Nova.

on what end of the spectrum does this fall

http://lamar.colostate.edu/~hillger/products/kashi.jpg

http://goalsuccess.typepad.com/goaltips/snappea.gif

i ate a whole bag of these at my mom's & she was like WHERES MY SNACK PEAS

they are actually very good

acai isn't served as a juice in brazil, it's served as a pulp of the frozen berries.

kashi frozen dinners

are those peas just peas in a pod? baked? is there oil & salt?
weird. i would just eat, y'know, snap peas. but i guess they are not crunchy like chips.

kashi looks like it might have a lot of processed ingredients - "soy protein grahams"?

just a sec, I ate one for dinner and am bored, will type ingredients list

Ingredients: Cooked Kashi(R) pilaf (list of grains), Cooked chicken (including "chicken flavor"), Rice starch, evaporated cane juice, water, green beans, vinegar, and a whole bunch of shit that seems harmless! Fuck, maybe it's not bad for me outside of the 12% of RDA cholesterol and 16% sodium. Or as I call them, "flavor" and "preservatives."

i think the kashi go lean cereal is aok - fiber is good.
the snap pea crisps are ridic and you might as well eat chips. they are greasy and fried (or maybe baked w/ a lot of oil but i don't think that texture comes from baking...) and i would rather just eat raw green beans.

oh i looked it up, man they are baked. i don't know what kinda baking that is, though... ugh.

"SnapeaCrisps originate from high quality sun-dried peas. Using new and unique technology, we created the world's first easily graspable, snow pea-shaped crisp!

We have come up with a product that is pleasing to the eye as well. In fact, although SnapeaCrisps are themselves peas, the product is innovative because it retains all the unique characteristics of the peas and, at the same time, removes the pet peeves traditionally associated with them."

scary.

"easily graspable"?

i don't want innovated pea-shaped things created using 'unique technology'... i just like peas!

those shits are addictive

they leave weird film in mouth :(

i ate a whole bag of these at my mom's & she was like WHERES MY SNACK PEAS

hah must be a mom thing bc the only time i have ever had them was also at mom's.

my parents have 8 different kinds of kashi cereal. why does "fiber" in cereal always have to mean weird little twigs. it doesn't really seem necessary.

my favorite cereal is this kind, which is more health food dressed up for evangelical christian nutjobs (and hippies) it's like the dr brommers of cereal
http://kitchen.apartmenttherapy.com/images/uploads/2006_01_11-ezekiel.jpg

ooh i have not had that cereal but i love their breads. they make the best toast.

i like grape nuts. i've done a total 180 from when i liked supersweet kids cereal and now enjoy the taste of gravel

http://www.udel.edu/chem/white/C643/CaseProb/Product19.JPG

4 life

last night I got home and Peter Jennings had eaten a partial tube of topical steroid cream (someone in the house has eczema).

are you calling peter jennings a yuppy and saying that eczema cream is junk food dressed up for him?

YES

ok, just checking.

ha, I used to eat Product 19 junk food. now i eat shredded wheat :(

is peter ok after his junk food binge?

DO NOT GO NEAR DISSING MY BELOVED KASHI!!

yeah, i had to call aspca poison control at 2am last night. he says it just reminds him of the time he had chlamydia. he has to pee a lot.

oh no peter jennings :(

Did we curse him with the poor showing

is it okay to profess my love for peter jennings?

yeah, he is always like "lrater" to me lately without even a high five, because i have not been spending enough time at home. which is why i think he went for the petroleum based steroid in the metal squeeze tube. he all bunnicula'd that up last night.

Is Peter Jennings going to get an Iphone?

no, because i already get enough texts when I am not home
"herro. me rramo pedro rennings. que rasa. ROR. OMGWTR!!!"

oh peter :(

Does Peter Jennings have a blog?

he used to have a brog, but it's now defunct. it just didn't make sense and I took it away because he would use my laptop and get crumbs all over it and screw up my bookmarks.

i do not know about carey's peter jennings and am kinda confused
does he like kashi though?

i want to eat shreddies for dinner
but it is so hot out and i don't want to go to the store and i don't want to spend money on shreddies

shredies? wtf is that

it is a cereal
maybe it is canadian only

oh i just thought it was a nickname for shredded wheat! haha

out of context hilarity:

those shits are addictive

-- sanskrit, Wednesday, June 27, 2007 9:40 AM (Wednesday, June 27, 2007 9:40 AM) Bookmark Link

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they leave weird film in mouth :(

-- tehresa, Wednesday, June 27, 2007 9:40 AM (Wednesday, June 27, 2007 9:40 AM) Bookmark Link

it makes families happy. it looks all healty b/c it is brown and fibre-looking but really it pretty sweet and the milk gets sweet which i am a fan of. i haven't eaten real cereal in a v long time (exception: granola)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rl0qb73EPyk

xpost
ew

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/197/485331902_02ce9898cc_m.jpg

peter

awww that is cuetest pic of peter EVAR!

wait you have a dog that is a tv personality and can text?

i love he

xpost

omg peter is great

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/197/485331902_02ce9898cc_m.jpg

"so do i bite the lemon before or after the shot?"

XD

Does anyone know where to get cheese in Williamsburg?

-- Momus, Thursday, June 14, 2007 10:05 PM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Link

o_O

FUCK FUCK FUCK

so i'm buying a 12er of beer at Key Food lasst night, and impulse buy a big bag of Veggie Booty -- which is absolute garbage, no news here. i ate a little too much of it, cooked dinner, then late night inhale the rest of the bag with drunk munchies. i think i took in 3/4 of it and wifey the rest. then i see this salmonella recall this morning on tv:

http://www.mercurynews.com/nationworld/ci_6258966

FUCK FUCK FUCK

i feel fine right now and am sure it's nothing. so pissed off right now though.

aw, hope the fineness lasts!!

the number of times 'booty' was used in that article disturbed me a tiny bit.

first instruction of the recall is to throw away the bag, lol
i'm saving that as evidence for any lawsuit

I'm intrigued by the presence of salmonella in a vegetarian product.

floods, chicken shit, neighboring spinach farms i'm guessing.

the weird thing is i only bought them because the grocery store was selling them at 1/2 off. that's quite an odd coincidence the night before a recall. i wonder what they knew.

INSIDER SALE PRICING!

veggie booty sucks

i had a tofu apple knish from the health food store today. comfort food maybe but not really junk food. i also got a VEGAN POWER sandwich for tomorrow..

tofu apple knish

three words that should never go together

i ate a whole bag of these at my mom's & she was like WHERES MY SNACK PEAS

they are actually very good

-- deeznuts, Tuesday, June 26, 2007 11:54 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Link

THESE TASTE LIKE BUGLES amirite

http://www.fda.gov/bbs/topics/NEWS/2007/NEW01661.html

GUYS I SURVIVED
sorry

still keeping the bag to see if i can get some money out of this thing (FUCK KEY FOOD)

ahem.

christ....i was just sent a picture of me eating crickets on sat night.

i entirely forgot that we ate crickets

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1267/689892671_bfb24c393a.jpg?v=0

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1267/689892671_bfb24c393a.jpg?v=0

http://www.utne.com/issues/2007_142/features/12607-1.html

i have always been suspect about soy - minor intake, fine, but when it started being in freakin every pre-packed thing, junk food or 'health' junk food - worrisome
yeah soy industry is massive

I was going to say (but that article says it better) that soy is better when it's fermented (tofu, miso, natto, etc.).

tofu isn't fermented, tho, Shasta! it's "curdled." (it's basically just soy milk cheese). tempeh is, tho, and it's more deliciouser than tofu anyway

there is such a thing as fermented tofu (fu yu/foo yee), though.

natto kind of grosses me out

Finally, something that does.

i like it but in small quantities. i think dan selzer was with me the first time i had natto maki.

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it's so good for you. i love bitter foods.

this is my most useful thread

I saw a Propel print ad saying something like "It takes 492 sit-ups to work off the calories from a Vitamin Water."

That many?

barbara's health food store cheezies!

http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSTRE50E54L20090115?rpc=60

As a bona fide legal expert, I promise that they have no chance with that suit.

easy now. you ain't a lawyer yet buddy.

In seriousness, it's probably more of a publicity move, like basically just to get quotes in the paper about how Vitamin Water isn't actually all that healthy.

i buy a lot of the natural/organic versions of junk food, but i'm not really under any illusions that they are healthier. i generally just think they taste better. regular lays potato chips vs. organic kettle-cooked potato chips -- not really much of health difference of course but the yuppie chips taste 100x better IMO. mcdonald's burger + fries vs. organic fresh-cut fries + veggie burger - again, possibly similar amount of calories/fats but yuppie meal tastes 100x better to me.

although this is definitely true:

honestly it probably is better for you to eat the all-natural cheetos just to avoid preservatives & dubious cheese color.

fat/caloric content aside, there's of course a lot of junk in the non-yuppie versions that is probably better left uneaten

http://www.msfa.net/art-news1005/pitachips.jpg

^^^
my wife and i will sneak a bag of the cinnamon and sugar ones of these into the movies for funsies

ah-cye-EE

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/12/fashion/12skin.html?hp

junk food, or just overpriced fruit juice?

has pom already made an appearance on this thread?

i don't know if i would call any not-from-concentrate fruit juice "junk food" -- yes I know they are full of sugars but they come from a pretty pure source -- but they sure as hell fall short of their stated health claims

http://www.starling-fitness.com/archives/2007/04/25/pinkberry-healthy-dessert/

Some would say that "not-from-concentrate" juice in itself is a bit overrated as health food -- as much sugar as soda and nowhere near the nutritional value of whole fruit.

c/d: not eating "fast food" while eating at local quick crap joints

― fiddo centington (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, November 18, 2003 11:46 AM (5 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Kettle Chips makes Doritos now!
http://ellwoodthompsons.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/tias-kettle.jpg

kettle cooked doritos sound like the best thing in the world

i had some of the salsa picante they were awesome.

wish i got the nacho cheddar tho

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/the-sweet-beet/health-foods-that-arent-healthy_b_806295.html

these are pretty bomb

http://i.imgur.com/ctujqWU.jpg

cabbage!

Any highly processed snack food is junk food. Making an industrial slurry of cabbage, onion, garlic and bell pepper and forming it into chips is more or less just a yuppie Pringle. What's weird is the pretense that it isn't junky if you add kale or acai or some shit like that and charge three prices for it.

jfc dude

hey, I like a bit of junk now n' then. When it gets bad is when you snarf it down every day. <-- low-hanging fruit for the quoted-out-of-context thread.

aimless you better get the onion and garlic powders out of your spice rack stat

aimless is no thread safe from your chin stroking banality

no

hahahaha

http://www.veggiegirl.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/P1012444.jpg

http://static.brit.co.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/BluePrintCleanse-Renovation.jpg

This stuff makes me IA

drink #4 literally costs like a nickel to make and i bet they charge at least $3 because of that smart looking bottle smh

"charge three prices for it." is nearly on some "first two coasts" shit.

lol $3 try like $8, xp

http://blueprintcleanse.com/

yeah but it drains your butt

Cashew&
Vanilla&
Cinnamon&
Agave.

hate to say it, but, clif and luna bars, right? i mean, the shit is candy bars

oh totally. i quite a vicious clif bar habit a couple years back.

for sure, as far as sugar content goes. but tbf they usually have more fiber, protein, and other stuff that a candy bar wouldn't.

power bars too?

i like the peanut butter ones

Cashew&
Vanilla&
Cinnamon&
Agave.

― 龜, Friday, May 16, 2014 11:25 AM (28 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I WANTED THAT ONE SO BAD a few weeks back because i like all those things but then I saw it was $8 and I just couldn't.

Think Thin bars don't have any sugar and are OK but not as tasty as Lara bars though though are probably more whole.

yea $8 is absurd. shit. you can get an entire falafel sandwich for $8, and that's still a ripoff. you can get a falafel for $2.50 someplaces.

eight seltzers.

or seven if there's tax.

clif bars are designed for when you're burning hella calories & packing light

I take Clif bars along when I am wilderness trekking, but Snickers work almost as well, so the candy bar analogy isn't far off the mark.

clif bars are designed for when you're burning hella calories & packing light

― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Friday, May 16, 2014 11:55 AM (48 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

my morning commute is pretty gnar

tho i flipped to lara bars recently. the key lime ones are goddesslike.

I've been weaning myself off snack bars and it's definitely helping me lose weight.

man i want a whole mess of lara bars right now, shiyet

aimless is no thread safe from your chin stroking banality

― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Thursday, May 15, 2014 10:16 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah man you gotta juice your vegetables and eat your fruits whole! fruit juice is mostly just sugar without any of the fibers. the fibers are the good stuff, that's what your body really wants!

- Aimless

"Any highly processed snack food", no loaded words there nope

for sure, as far as sugar content goes. but tbf they usually have more fiber, protein, and other stuff that a candy bar wouldn't.

also, the sugar content in them comes from more benign sources than hfcs.

"Any highly processed snack food", no loaded words there nope

You got me all wrong, brimstead. I always eat my cabbage in the form of triangular chip.

you're missing out, cabbage is a wonderful even as accessorial ruffage.

raw juice is good even though it is high sugar and low fiber because of enzymes and phytochemicals. smoothies are better because you retain the fiber. in general, you shouldn't be scared of the sugar in raw fruit for the most part unless you are eating it in extreme quantities.

i think the worst offender of junk food that appeals to whole foods shoppers is artisanal soda, like virgil's. soda is evil imho.

This thread inspired me to buy some Chia seed tortilla chips yesterday.

i've had virgils, aint nothing evil about that sweet sweet root beer

reed's ginger beer is my weakness

i used to eat these a lot and then stopped and then my grocery store started stocking them for 1.19 so i bought six and i have eaten three today
http://www.primalspiritfoods.com/images/products/PrimalStrips/flavor_group_large_mesquite_lime.jpg
75 calories apiece! very tasty! maybe high in sodium is the only thing
http://www.primalspiritfoods.com/products_flavor_details.php#MesquiteLime

I gave my three-year-old a luna bar and she really liked it = it is a candy bar

I have been eating zone perfect bars after workouts though because I am buying into that whole protein+carbs immediately after working out thing, plus I kind of feel like I need a little sugar boost when I'm beat from a workout, plus I read that giving yourself a little sweet after a workout is a good way to help build an exercise habit (because it's a "reward" in a pavlovian sense). Also they are cheap at Costco.

So far the "reward" part I guess is working because I've hit the gym 3x week every week for four months straight.

https://casasanchezsf.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/totopos-casa-sanchez-sf.jpg

literally my entire diet belongs in this thread, i have put on like 30 pounds in the last couple of years, envy my life

“I don’t think much has changed in the energy bar landscape—just more crowded!” writes Eskin, who still works as a food writer for the Tribune and other outlets. “The culture of the time focused on athletes—who presumably ‘needed’ quick, portable nutrition—and everyone else who wanted to seem just as buff and busy.”

Long read on the rise of the power/protein bar:

https://www.topic.com/hard-to-swallow

This thread has everything.

https://thumbor.thedailymeal.com/Sk8bL8_na9rnPhp2b9yc_HivQtk=/870x565/https://www.thedailymeal.com/sites/default/files/story/2016/RX-Bar%20Title%20Image.jpg

https://i0.wp.com/www.eatthis.com/wp-content/uploads//media/images/ext/918357171/kind-bars.jpg?fit=500%2C366&ssl=1

here's a good example I discovered recently

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51E71WaNp-L._SX522_.jpg

Just 10g of protein and 300 calories, with likely less than half of that protein even coming from "crickets." $36 for 12 on Amazon.

Admittedly I am probably way too reliant on Kirkland protein bars, premier protein shakes, and various brands of vegetable protein powder for nutrition. Sometimes I wonder if it does me any good at all.

I don't really think people eat Beyond burgers types of things to be healthier? I could be wrong. I still haven't been able to try them. Boca burgers have always sucked so bad otm all above.

That piece on protein bars is depressing. It's Lunchables for adults. I thought the era for them ended in the early part of this decade. I was obv wrong. The last time I bought one was when I was going 5 day hiking/camping and needed to carry all my food in.

Can you still get those Powerbars that were like a thin slabs of tar?

I’m crazy about these, I don’t know if they count, they’re not made for scarfing/wolfing

https://roweofvenice.com/collections/snacks/products/espresso

um did you mean to post that on the Naked Juice thread