House Bans Obesity Lawsuits Against Fast Food Industry

[Laika]

RE: House Bans Obesity La

I love my GF grill! It gets a lot of use around here. A couple quick & easy recipes:

Skewer thingies: chicken, zucchini, onion, shrooms, green bell peppers. Cut em up and stick em on a skewer, brush with a little bit of olive oil and season to your preference and grill em up. *drool*

Quedilla: chicken slices from the deli, grated cheese, salsa and whatever else suits you, all wrapped up in a soft tortilla. Grill for a couple minutes, until the cheese is all melty and the tortilla is slightly grilled. *more drooling*

 

[Ocean Breeze]

Re: RE: House Bans Obesity La

I was looking at those George Forman grills today. I almost bought one. Are they really that good to use?

Yep. We have the Limited Edition Anniversary Special. It grills quickly and eliminates the fat and grease by letting it drip into a small drip tray (included) that you place in the front of the grill.

I have used it to grill steak, shrimp, swordfish, pork chops, hamburger ... etc).

checked them out online.......and they sure do seem efficient, compact etc.... Are they easy to keep clean??? (as in low maintainence???

thx.

 

[no1important]

RE: House Bans Obesity La

Not sure about being easy to keep clean as I don't have one yet.

I think I will pick one up this weekend. The price seemed reasonable, although I can not think what is was first hand.

edited to add: Thanks for the reviews :wink: I will let you all know how I make out.

 

[Nascar_James]

Re: RE: House Bans Obesity La

A Big Mac meal (burger, large fries, large Coke): 1400 calories, with 55 grams of fat. Based on a 2000 calorie per day diet, that is 85% of your daily recommended fat intake. That is directly from McDonald's own site: http://www.mcdonalds.com/usa/eat/nutrition_info.html

On 2000 cal/day, that leaves you 600 calories for breakfast and lunch, or 300 calories per meal. Ouch. Even an anorexic fashion model would be feeling hungry again soon after.

Your idea of a home-cooked meal is loaded with fat and carbs and does not offer many of the vital nutrients we need from fresh vegetables and whole grains. I guess corn is good for you, until you soak it in more fat and salt.

My idea of a home cooked meal is a marinated & grilled chicken breast (we rarely eat red meat, less than once a week), a cup of fresh or steamed veggies and a cup of brown rice pilaf or a small baked potato and all the fresh, cold water you can drink. Total calories about 800. A good balance of protein and carbs and low in fat. Plus, lots of minerals and vitamins and absolutely delicous.

Portion control is also a very important concept. If you are going to be eating the kinds of foods you listed in your home cooked meal, the *proper* portions would be so tiny it would be a joke. Portions of a healthy, balanced meal tend to be more generous and since you are getting a good balance in protein, fat, and carbs you tend to be satisfied longer and don't feel the need to snack through the day.

You and the missus should try eating healthy for a few weeks. You will be surprised how much yummy food there is that is actually good for you! Within a couple weeks, I guarantee you will be feeling better, sleeping better and have more overall energy. It takes a little bit of effort to learn how to eat healthy, but it's not too difficult and you don't have to completely give up the foods you love, just try to cut back or save them for special occassions like birthdays, holidays, or get-togethers.

hmmm ... sounds pretty convincing Laika. I guess next time instead of buying drumsticks to fry, we'll look into getting chicken breast. I'm sure it'll cook good on our George Foreman grill. As for the vegetables, the family's not a big fan of vegetables (especially the green ones). The popular vegetable in our family is the potato. We eat it in so many ways. One day we'll have it fried cut one way, the next fried cut another way, the day after baked, then mashed ...and so on. Either way, it's a good tasting vegetable. We've tried to look into good tasting vegetables in the past Laika, but cannot find many. Corn, potato, sweet peas, asparagus, yams (sweet potato) are pretty much the stuff we like.

Getting back to the McDonald's calorie count above, the fries have 325, 450 and 545 depending on size. If you replace the large fry with a small one, you will reduce the calorie count by 220. So you'll go down from 1400 calories to 1180 which is in line with my initial estimate. So this is 380 calories higher than the healthy meal you described above. I guess the calorie intake also depends on a person's metabolism. I have a high metabolism, so usually get in the range of 2000 - 2500 calories per day.

I don't partucularly like to eat lots of food within the first 4 hours after waking up and 4 hours before going to sleep. The metabolism is at it's peak outside of this 8 hour range (and abviously outside of thw sleeptime range).

 

[Nascar_James]

Re: RE: House Bans Obesity La

I was looking at those George Forman grills today. I almost bought one. Are they really that good to use?

Yep. We have the Limited Edition Anniversary Special. It grills quickly and eliminates the fat and grease by letting it drip into a small drip tray (included) that you place in the front of the grill.

I have used it to grill steak, shrimp, swordfish, pork chops, hamburger ... etc).

checked them out online.......and they sure do seem efficient, compact etc.... Are they easy to keep clean??? (as in low maintainence???

thx.

Yep, just use a soft wet sponge after the grill has cooled.

 

[Ocean Breeze]

Re: RE: House Bans Obesity La

I was looking at those George Forman grills today. I almost bought one. Are they really that good to use?

Yep. We have the Limited Edition Anniversary Special. It grills quickly and eliminates the fat and grease by letting it drip into a small drip tray (included) that you place in the front of the grill.

I have used it to grill steak, shrimp, swordfish, pork chops, hamburger ... etc).

checked them out online.......and they sure do seem efficient, compact etc.... Are they easy to keep clean??? (as in low maintainence???

thx.

Yep, just use a soft wet sponge after the grill has cooled.

Thanks NJ....... looks better all the time.. :wink:

 

[Nascar_James]

Re: RE: House Bans Obesity La

I love my GF grill! It gets a lot of use around here. A couple quick & easy recipes:

Skewer thingies: chicken, zucchini, onion, shrooms, green bell peppers. Cut em up and stick em on a skewer, brush with a little bit of olive oil and season to your preference and grill em up. *drool*

Quedilla: chicken slices from the deli, grated cheese, salsa and whatever else suits you, all wrapped up in a soft tortilla. Grill for a couple minutes, until the cheese is all melty and the tortilla is slightly grilled. *more drooling*

That reminds me. It's been awhile I haven't had a good home cooked carne asada burrito. Grilled slices of thin cut up beef with diced tomato, thin guacamole sauce, onions, parsley, salt, all wrapped in a flour tortila bread.

 

[Nascar_James]

Re: RE: House Bans Obesity La

I was looking at those George Forman grills today. I almost bought one. Are they really that good to use?

Yep. We have the Limited Edition Anniversary Special. It grills quickly and eliminates the fat and grease by letting it drip into a small drip tray (included) that you place in the front of the grill.

I have used it to grill steak, shrimp, swordfish, pork chops, hamburger ... etc).

checked them out online.......and they sure do seem efficient, compact etc.... Are they easy to keep clean??? (as in low maintainence???

thx.

Yep, just use a soft wet sponge after the grill has cooled.

Thanks NJ....... looks better all the time.. :wink:

you bet.

 

[Laika]

RE: House Bans Obesity La

Sometimes it's all a matter of how it's served. Fresh produce is absolutely vital...the sooner you prepare it after bringing it home from the market, the better it will taste. You don't have to go overboard on fruits and veggies; I think variety is far more important. Take a look at a list of sources of vitamins sometime (your wife's calorie counter book might have something like that in it). You can plainly see that in order to get the nutrients we need in our diets we need to eat a lot of different kinds of foods. Some nutrients need to be replenished everyday because we do not store them or synthesize them, like vitamin C.

You could try different kinds of fruits or veggies every week and never run out of new dishes to try. There is so many different tastes and textures to experiment with as the seasons change; there is no need to stick with the same thing day after day. And if there is something you just absolutely do not like, look at your list of vitamin sources again and see if there is something else there you would like to try. I would be willing to bet that you and your family would find the break from routine fun and find mealtime a lot more interesting.

A list of vitamin sources would look something like this page, which has a list of essential nutrients, what they do for us, and what foods have them:

http://www.healthchecksystems.com/vitamins.htm