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Post by Deleted on Nov 6, 2016 14:45:34 GMT 1
Without the distraction, and irritation, of some woman making noises at me, I feel free to report tonight's repast:
Potato and parsnip bake with Quorm sausages. I've discovered that you can cook potatoes and parsnips, cut up, from raw on the hob, in milk, then finish them in the oven, where you can simultaneously cook the sausages. If you turn the heating off when you've got the oven on, 'cos you don't need the warmth from both, then you're also being frugal with energy....
Left-over potato and parsnip bake goes with anything. Bit of chicken, a few rashers of bacon, a fillet of fish. So the power of the microwave makes possible another meal later in the week with little effort.
You may've hitherto wondered how I get by without some woman around making noises at me. Being self-reliant is the key. Now you know....
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Post by Deleted on Nov 8, 2016 9:16:55 GMT 1
Haggis. A gift from Scotland.
Its principal ingredient being sheep's offal. Or rather, sheep's lungs. For some weird reason this may not appeal to today's generation. Today's generation may only ever feed offal to their dogs. I'm guessing that today's generation has choices that didn't used to exist, like Thai Bakes from Mr. Tesco. Today's generation is poorer for that....
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Post by Deleted on Nov 15, 2016 10:18:47 GMT 1
QuorN burgers with macaroni cheese and (tinned) plum tomatoes.
This will be my last attempt to enjoy QuorN burgers. They taste of nothing, have the texture of cardboard and provide no nutrition whatsoever. It's 'pretend' food and I'm not prepared to be conned any longer...
Ironic it is that because the burgers are low in fat I have to provide fat from somewhere else, otherwise I'll leave the table still hungry. So I'm using grated cheese, a month past its shelf-life date, but not yet mouldy, to ramp up the fat. I'll probably eat the whole with bread as well to increase the carbs, and the fat, and the salt....
Later in the evening I expect to munch a bag of crisps and a kit-kat, cos I'll soon be hungry again. 'Healthy Eating' doesn't work. What does work is a lifestyle of high physical activity and eating as much of what you like. I think that I'll stick with that....
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Post by Deleted on Nov 15, 2016 14:33:16 GMT 1
I'm in agreement with the "eating as much as you want" but am reluctant to follow the "lifestyle of high physical activity", unless getting off the sofa to find the TV remote counts...
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Post by Deleted on Nov 15, 2016 19:40:07 GMT 1
You speak for millions, sonnetpete....
I've eaten the QuorN burgers. I'm able to confirm that they're not worth buying. I would go as far as to say that gross obesity is a preferable option to eating QuorN burgers....
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Post by Deleted on Nov 15, 2016 23:27:37 GMT 1
We (as in my late wife and I) ate lots of Quorn based products in the UK before we moved to France. My late wife had been a vegetarian since her early teens and I joined the 'no meat' lot when I moved in with her. We continued over here, though you can't easily find Quorn in France and we followed a largely vegetarian lifestyle until she passed away in 2009, as afterwards I went back to a 'carnivore' diet.
I did feel in better health while a vegetarian, though whether this is more due to the various additives introduced into processed meat products, rather than 'meat' per se, I don't know. I didn't find Quorn too bad by the way, though I thoroughly disliked tofu...
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Post by Deleted on Nov 16, 2016 19:55:47 GMT 1
Vegetarians, in my experience, tend not to booze hard, nor smoke either. They drink water and have an holistic approach to healthy living. They're gonna feel better for this, as well as be slimmer for lower fat intake.
I tend towards vegetarian food, but that for me means mainly fresh vegetables forming the biggest part of a meal, and bread. but while I don't smoke I know how to booze...
Tonight dinner is fish and chips from the chippy - a once in a blue moon gross-out - I know how to gross-out too...
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Post by Deleted on Nov 16, 2016 22:51:40 GMT 1
Before following a vegetarian diet, I drank moderately and have never smoked. My late wife enjoyed a glass or two of wine and had never smoked.
We didn't drink a lot of water (in fact I probably drink more now then I have before).My late wife became vegetarian for ethical reasons, not necessarily to benefit her health. Despite my statement that I felt better being vegetarian, I'm not totally convinced that it is a very healthy lifestyle. My wife contracted cancer and died at the age of 53. Now it it may be very possible that the same outcome would have occurred if she had also been a carnivore. It certainly gives you pause for thought...
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Post by Deleted on Nov 17, 2016 11:05:55 GMT 1
It certainly does give us pause for thought, sp. I'm, personally, not able to equate cancer with diet, nor lifestyle. but a genetic pre-disposition towards it. How else can someone who's smoke 20 fags a day live to be a 100, and someone else who's never smoked die in their fifties?
Ethical reasons for eating are another whole can of marbles. It doesn't follow that if we eat ethically we eat healthily. Cheap, mass-produced chicken is not, fundamentally, bad for your health... White-meat protein is white-meat protein, however it's produced....
Beyond the scope and capability of this forum is a full consideration of these themes, IMO. Eat, everyone, whatever you like, I'm not here to tell you otherwise, but I'll flag up the nonsense that is QuorN burgers...
Tonight's dinner is sardines on toast, dressed up with grated cheese and plum tomatoes. Today is likely to be a sedentary day, so I'll eat lightly. Yesterday was a heavy day humping Christmas trees, so I gorged on fish and chips - I practise what I preach......
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Post by Deleted on Nov 17, 2016 16:37:22 GMT 1
I tend to agree that diet has little to do with reducing the risk of cancer, which in my own opinion is related to stress more than anything. The ethics behind my late wifes vegetarianism was her revulsion about slaughtering animals so humans could consume them.
I have less concern about that aspect, though am not happy with a lot of the aspects behind livestock rearing and the manner in which they are slaughtered...
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