The Fast Food Thread

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Eh, I cook almost everything (and what I don't cook is rarely fast food [only when I need something truly fast - otherwise table service stuff] and never frozen garbage besides some prepared fish at times and sides) - but I'd not label my cooking as "worrying about what's healthy"
 
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Vaclav_sl said:
Yes and no - I feel that the only way to not have to sit there contemplating food with more of my day than I care to - is to eat tasteless crap.

Perhaps I should've gone for the more lengthy explanation of "not being able to just follow your cravings" - which sure, some cravings are healthy, but it seems like a stupid burden to me to have my brain saying "Let's do steak tonight" and have to override it with a quinoa salad.
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I cook myself delicious, healthy food every night. Mostly roasted veggies. Mmmm roasted veggies. And chicken in a nice rub sauteed in a bit of olive oil. Or slow cooked pork shoulder. Or slow cooked beef chuck roast. Avocados and nuts or eggs for breakfast are pretty delicious and satisfying to. I do allow myself to cheat by cooking the eggs in butter. But it's 2 tsp max and only a couple times a week.

Herbs and spices man, they are your tasty cooking friend.
 
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I gotta say I love the george foreman for cooking chicken. As long as you don't overdo it you don't need any oil and it still comes out delicious. Steak however is cast iron or die.
 
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Soygen_sl said:
If you workout regularly, you can eat pretty bad all the time and maintain. However, he clearly said he's dieting. There's a difference between actively trying to lose weight and then your normal maintaining.
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Unless you're some insecure turd who needs 22 inch biceps or cheese-grater abs. Otherwise, yes and it is awesome.

I'm not joking I'd rather be dead than eat broccoli and chicken and brown rice for 2 meals a day for every day of my life. No sir.
 
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Crone_sl said:
Joeboo, either in this thread, or the other food thread, hit us up with that chicken salad recipe. Just bought one of those chickens on Saturday!
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Cooking Thread - Recipes in first post - Page 259

I make 2 variations of that chicken salad recipe. The one listed in the post there(with the couple small alterations I mentioned), and I also do a greek chicken salad where you basically just take that same recipe and sub out the celery and grapes for diced tomatos and cucumber, and sub out the mayonnaise for greek Tzatziki sauce, and the chicken salad ends up tasting like a chicken gyro, its awesome. I kinda alternate back and forth between the two. The original style is awesome on plain bread, or a ciabatta bun or whatever, while the greek one is awesome in a pita or on naan bread

Sorry - don't mean to derail the fast food thread with real food talk, but its sandwiches, that kinda counts as fast food
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joeboo_sl said:
Cooking Thread - Recipes in first post - Page 259

I make 2 variations of that chicken salad recipe. The one listed in the post there(with the couple small alterations I mentioned), and I also do a greek chicken salad where you basically just take that same recipe and sub out the celery and grapes for diced tomatos and cucumber, and sub out the mayonnaise for greek Tzatziki sauce, and the chicken salad ends up tasting like a chicken gyro, its awesome. I kinda alternate back and forth between the two. The original style is awesome on plain bread, or a ciabatta bun or whatever, while the greek one is awesome in a pita or on naan bread

Sorry - don't mean to derail the fast food thread with real food talk, but its sandwiches, that kinda counts as fast food
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I thought that you had posted it before. Thank you very much.
 
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Khane_sl said:
I cook myself delicious, healthy food every night. Mostly roasted veggies. Mmmm roasted veggies. And chicken in a nice rub sauteed in a bit of olive oil. Or slow cooked pork shoulder. Or slow cooked beef chuck roast. Avocados and nuts or eggs for breakfast are pretty delicious and satisfying to. I do allow myself to cheat by cooking the eggs in butter. But it's 2 tsp max and only a couple times a week.

Herbs and spices man, they are your tasty cooking friend.
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You just quoted about 5 items on my "unhealthy eating" list I'm supposed to avoid, FYI. "Healthy" is such a bullshit thing because of such things.

List of those that the doc tried to give an ixnay on - eggs, slow cooker stuff, nuts, eggs, butter.
 
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Vaclav_sl said:
You just quoted about 5 items on my "unhealthy eating" list I'm supposed to avoid, FYI. "Healthy" is such a bullshit thing because of such things.

List of those that the doc tried to give an ixnay on - eggs, slow cooker stuff, nuts, eggs, butter.
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Does your doctor have a severe learning disability?
 
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Diets are religions. Some people desperately need them. Others don't. But sure as fuck don't try and push yours on every single person because that's just not how they work.
 
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Khane_sl said:
Does your doctor have a severe learning disability?
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He's trying to force me onto a low cholesterol, low sodium diet - slow cooker's the only iffy one to me. Rest are high cholesterol and most high sodium.

Remember "healthy" has many different meanings - most of that stuff is pretty good on calories (except the butter - but that doesn't matter unless you go hogwild) - but on other variants not so much. Part of the whole stupid tightwire act to eating "healthy".

Diabetic/Low-Calorie eating isn't the only type of healthy eating, remember.

[and his quality on such suggestions are relatively moot, since I'd rather die from a coronary early than spend an extra 10 years of micromanaging labels on food, especially when it comes to cooking stuff where it gets really abstract since I hate using prepackaged stuff whenever I can]
 
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It's been pretty thoroughly debunked that dietary cholesterol leads to high cholesterol in your body. Sounds like your doctor is just super old school and believes that fat = bad and dietary cholesterol = bad.

Anyway, this is for the weight loss thread.

I've been on a big(ger than usual) candy kick lately, and one of my new favorites are the air heads bites. They taste just like air heads, but they're in little bite-sized pieces. I've always loved the taste of air heads, but the taffy-like structure of them always made them a pain to eat while driving (which is when I consume 90% of my candy) so having a bag of bites I can put between my legs and pop into my mouth is a godsend.
 
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McCheese_sl said:
It's been pretty thoroughly debunked that dietary cholesterol leads to high cholesterol in your body. Sounds like your doctor is just super old school and believes that fat = bad and dietary cholesterol = bad.
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The debunking still isn't that accepted yet (and I have read it previous to my diagnosis, I'm familiar) - even Mayo is still quoting like my doc.Top 5 lifestyle changes to reduce cholesterol - Mayo Clinic


It's not impossible Dr. K could be terrible though, just started with him being that we just moved. He's personable and is handling other stuff OK though, if I do start having heart issues for real I'll get a cardiologist rather than a GP anyhow.
 
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And on a food note - made homemade burgers tonight and for the first time tried Publix's pretzel hamburger rolls for them. Holy shit, I love my burgers normally - but throwing them on their pretzel rolls... <3 Probably best burger of my life besides the bacon [I underdid the bacon slightly by my tastes] and only real change was the roll.
 
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Cut down portions and say no to soda, that along with 3 or so days of some exercise and I can still eat what I want.

McCheese_sl said:
It's been pretty thoroughly debunked that dietary cholesterol leads to high cholesterol in your body. Sounds like your doctor is just super old school and believes that fat = bad and dietary cholesterol = bad.

Anyway, this is for the weight loss thread.

I've been on a big(ger than usual) candy kick lately, and one of my new favorites are the air heads bites. They taste just like air heads, but they're in little bite-sized pieces. I've always loved the taste of air heads, but the taffy-like structure of them always made them a pain to eat while driving (which is when I consume 90% of my candy) so having a bag of bites I can put between my legs and pop into my mouth is a godsend.
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I like airheads, but my favorite "tart" candy is the old sour ball things that were gum, man after about 4-5 of those your tongue just hurts if you try anymore. I can't find them anymore(not that I look too hard).
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Ah yes, good ol' cry babies. I'm not a huge fan of gum, so I used to suck on those just long enough to get the super tart sugar coating off (a few seconds usually) and then spit them out.
 
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These are great if you can find them. I've only ever seen them at Big Lots.

They're not super sour (just sorta tart, really) but they're really gummy with good flavors.

I really like candy.
 
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McCheese_sl said:
Ah yes, good ol' cry babies. I'm not a huge fan of gum, so I used to suck on those just long enough to get the super tart sugar coating off (a few seconds usually) and then spit them out.
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I used to do this too. I'm not as into candy as I used to be. When I do eat candy, it's almost always chocolate. Cheesecake and ice cream are my dessert weaknesses.
 
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I still love kiddie candy (laffy taffy, nerd ropes, trolli sour worms, sweet tarts, etc). I don't eat it regularly, and I feel slightly embarrassed buying it, but I have to have some once in a while. Usually when I'm on a road trip.
 
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