Here’s a really nice table of how long several different kinds of foods keep you feeling pleasantly well fed. That English breakfast of beans on toast — very filling. The Irish breakfast with potatoes — very filling. A candy bar — nope, sorry. When you’re snacking, go for something high on the list and relatively [...]
Posts Tagged ‘food’
25 Feb
Nutrisystem vs MediFast
This one is in answer to a reader question about how to choose between the two. Nutrisystem is, foundationally, a food delivery service. Some of the entrees are (or were) made here in the Cincinnati area at a plant that also makes military MRE‘s. They’re a collection of packaged MRE’s, with an optional add-in of [...]
24 Feb
Yes. Here are a couple of illustrations: 1. Your doctor tells you you have to lose a whole bunch of weight really fast, and lays out what it is you’re going to do to get there, and you’re following that with extra supervision. 2. You don’t know how to cook yet, at all, nada, noting, [...]
24 Feb
Is it sometimes ok to have a different food plan for losing weight than for keeping it off afterwards?
Yes. Here are a couple of illustrations: 1. Your doctor tells you you have to lose a whole bunch of weight really fast, and lays out what it is you’re going to do to get there, and you’re following that with extra supervision. 2. You don’t know how to cook yet, at all, nada, noting, [...]
2 Feb
U.S. News – McDonald’s drops use of gooey ammonia-based ‘pink slime’ in hamburger meat
The company denied that its decision was influenced by a months-long campaign by celebrity chef Jamie Oliver to get ammonium-hydroxide-treated meats like chicken and beef out of the U.S. food supply. But it acknowledged this week that it had stopped using the unappetizing pink goo — made from treating otherwise inedible scrap meat with the chemical [...]
11 Apr
Schools food is the only option for some kids
If you live in Chicago, you may not be able to pack your kids’ school lunches. The Man has determined that they are better than you, and their choices of food are the only option.
