What 'good' food advice doesn't 'work' for you...
@wookie--I didn't know you could compost in a hole either! I found this article about it: http://www.lewisgardens.com/compost.htm
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I don't think it is particularly McDonalds that is the most hated. They just happen to have the largest share of fast food out there and tend to get picked on more for it. Many people eat there and are fine with it. I happen to not be one of those people. I don't eat fast food because I don't really see the point of it. It isn't exactly "food", more food-shaped stuff made from mostly processed products (for the most part). I'm not advocating everyone eating gourmet food either, I just think that there are so many better choices out there. I'm not trying to be argumentative, just representing another opinion.
Salmonella Scare Hits the Big Time
I happen to agree with Simon, and I don't feel like I'm patting myself on the back for it. It really has nothing to do with homeschooling or riding in a car. The food is tasteless (except for salt and grease), and is partly to blame for our country's obesity problem. I'm not choosing to "deprive myself" by not eating at McDonalds. I have more respect for myself than that.
What lunch box did you have - what was in it?
I had the Partridge Family lunch box just like this one: http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Hollow/4131/partr.gif
I would always get a pb&j on whole wheat and an apple. Sometimes mom would cut up the apple for me, but she'd put lemon juice on it so it wouldn't turn brown. I'd always suck the lemon juice off the apple slices and then eat them.
Good quality extra virgin olive oil
Surprisingly, Goya olive oil is pretty good (for a cheaper, grocery store olive oil). I use it to cook with, but have not tried it in salad dressings. I also recommend changing vinegars. Rice vinegar is really light and not all that vinegar-y to me.
Comfort Foods?
My mom's poached eggs. I've tried to make them and I fail. You have to have a piece of lightly buttered toast to tear up into little chunks and put it in the mashed up salted eggs. Yum. Now I want that for dinner.
What do you bring to lunch to eat at your desk?
Nothing on this planet smells as bad as tuna salad, so I'd avoid taking that in the office if at all possible.
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Ellen. We'd go to a local diner and eat whatever the special was for that day.
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What 'good' food advice doesn't 'work' for you...
@RedSquirrel -- Thank you! I didn't have anything to share on hole composting as I just did it and it worked, so I was going to have to go looking. Thanks for finding that. I'd say it sounds more difficult than it is. I only bothered to turn mine a few times and if it did have a smell I put a light layer of dirt on top as that negated the odor which went away quickly anyway. My hole was about 3 feet long and two feet wide and a foot or so deep. I'd fill one end then the other. One of the lovely things was getting some volunteer potato plants growing on the edges one year.
@wookie (and whoever else is interested) -- Here's a National Geographic Article on red wriggler worm composting inside in your kitchen. It can be done outside too although some precautions need to be done for the freezes but this is good for apartment dwellers too.
Here's another four page bit on various home composting systems from Oprah's Earth Day show last April which has nice visuals and a link to explore more at the end.
Just to make a couple points. I'd stay away from those barrel ones that turn. They get too heavy and are too hard to empty. Also, home composters do not get hot enough to compost those bio-degradable plastics. Those have to go to special facilities to be broken down.
Salmonella Scare Hits the Big Time
I actually joined this blog just to see what kind of logical link there is between McDonald's and homeschooling? Would the author of that comment please continue that train of thought?
Salmonella Scare Hits the Big Time
I hear you Squirrel. :)
It was mostly aimed at Simon.
Salmonella Scare Hits the Big Time
I don't think it is particularly McDonalds that is the most hated. They just happen to have the largest share of fast food out there and tend to get picked on more for it. Many people eat there and are fine with it. I happen to not be one of those people. I don't eat fast food because I don't really see the point of it. It isn't exactly "food", more food-shaped stuff made from mostly processed products (for the most part). I'm not advocating everyone eating gourmet food either, I just think that there are so many better choices out there. I'm not trying to be argumentative, just representing another opinion.
Salmonella Scare Hits the Big Time
Well, Simon and RedSquarrel... the reason I asked if he (Simon) had tried any of their latest products is because there are a couple decent ones.
One in particular was reviewed / compared to Chick-fil-A right here on SeriousEats, and they seem to think it was OK, and even had some trouble telling the difference between it, and the real Chick-fil-A, which is a damn fine fast-food sandwich.
So, you see, Simon, I would have to argue that it DOES take a bit of RECENT knowledge about a company's products to make what you refer to as... "a very clear and well formed opinion on the topic."
Anyway... it's obvious you have a serious, deeper issue with MvcDonald's besides the taste of their food, and I must assume your narrow minded statement stems from this Ronald McDonald hatred. Good luck with that.
P.S. Nice post Stiv61
What lunch box did you have - what was in it?
My mom sometimes put spaghetti in my thermos. People thought it was weird but I liked that better than the sandwiches... I had Snoopy, Peanuts, maybe G I Joe (when she wasn't paying attention and switched mine with my brother's)... I had Sanrio ones as well before Sanrio was cool... bah.
I still have lunchboxes... only now we call 'em bento and I try to put as little food as possible in to them, lol. http://feistybento.blogspot.com :)
Good quality extra virgin olive oil
Alright, I believe I have found the perfect dressing.
1.5 Tbs lemon juice
1 tsp white wine vinegar
1 minced garlic clove
.5 tsp dry mustard
a pinch of salt/pepper
3 Tbs Extra Virgin Olive Oil
What lunch box did you have - what was in it?
I must have had more than one along the way, but the only lunch box I can remember had the Harlem Globe Trotters on the side. Not with photos of the team though. They had their own Saturday morning cartoon in the 70's instead. I still think it was "supercool" and wish I still had it. What was inside was not so wonderful. PB&J on pepperridge farm white bread. I still like pb&j but not after its sat in a locker for 3 hours and the jelly has sunk into the bread. Baloney wasn't too good but held up better somehow.
I remember coveting a classmate's Josie and the Pussycats lunch box as well.
What lunch box did you have - what was in it?
@Susquehanna: I had the same Mork and Mindy lunchbox, but in orange. This was 1981. In Grade 2 I got a Thermos brand Garfield lunchbox and then in grade 4 the cool thing was to have an insulated bag. The first one I had was red and white but then I got a silver coloured one with "Survival Kit" printed on it.
A typical lunch was saltines w/butter or pb for morning snack; pb and honey sandwich, cut up apple wrapped in wax paper and either homemade baking or two Dare Chocolate fudge cookies. With the hard plastic lunch boxes I usually got apple or grape juice in the thermos but by the time the insulated packs came along, I was buying a carton of milk at school. 40 cents, either white or chocolate. That was the only thing you could buy at school; the milk guy would drop off a couple of cases and someone would set up a table in the foyer every day.
Then in grade 7 we moved and I was only 2 doors down from my new school so I could go home for lunch and eat Zoodles and watch Gummi Bears on TV!
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