I made a big mistake; I got the Imperial French dip sandwich at Arby's. The roast beef looked like wet newspaper pages. If I looked closely, I could read the column.
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0b11011001
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What did you expect from fast food?
Glad I stopped eating that crap about 15 yrs agoWhat did you expect from fast food?
Eating healthy is tremendously difficult. I could go on, but most of you astute fellows and ladies already know.
Blanched, bleached, processed, biogenetically modified, grown in used-up soil, sprayed with pesticides, salted to oblivion, injected with chemicals to preserve on the shelf........
Unless one is growing a garden and livestock, there's not much escaping it.
Blanched, bleached, processed, biogenetically modified, grown in used-up soil, sprayed with pesticides, salted to oblivion, injected with chemicals to preserve on the shelf........
Unless one is growing a garden and livestock, there's not much escaping it.
0b11011001
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I am not opposed to buying raw vegetables at the grocery store or a roadside farm. I am not worried about pesticides. I wash everything off before prep for cooking.
What is easy to avoid is fast food establishments, and canned foods. Canned foods contain too much sodium, and other preservatives.
Prepare everything yourself. We make our own pancakes and Belgian waffles from scratch, no premix. We also bake our own bread.
A Mexican grocery store is your friend !
0b11011001
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Well whatever is on the skin of the vegetable does wash off. As to how much is inside the vegetation, and how much is harmful to humans, is probably up for debate.
Regardless, eating healthy is not hard. It is a decision each person makes. IOW, there is a lot you can control in your dietary intake.
No one lives forever, but I do want to feel as good as possible, while I am alive!
We eat fresh and I make everything from "scratch", easy day even commuting 2ish hrs a day. People use a lot of excuses. Its 2026, how bad our food is for us is common knowledge at this point, just like cigarettes!
The only reason I returned to Arby's is they returned the Ham Slider. I tried some of the other sandwiches. The ham Slider used a sweet bread bun that ruined the ham taste so Arby's is off the list again.
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I just started with a sort of hybrid Keto/carnivore diet. I learned in the 90's that fat is GOOD and carbs are only good in moderation. That's how I got my weight down from 245 to 190 back in 1997. I used to avoid eggs. Now my wife and I raise a half dozen chickens strictly for eggs and I eat three a day - slathered in butter. Absolutely delicious! And we get our beef by sharing a steer with a neighbor. Believe it or not, my favorite "cut" of meet has shifted from Ribey to hamburger.
I'm 72 and I just don't care about super high quality cuts of meat any more. It's sort of a "been there, done that" thing. Hamburger is incredibly delicious (with the right spices) and very healthful. It's also incredibly convenient. No need for a steak knife. But all that said, a really good filet mignon is hard to beat
Needless to say, we don't waste our time and energy on outdoor BBQ grilled meat any more. It tastes good, but is not worth the time and effort.
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I avoid Corn syrup like it's cyanide. And yeah, we prepare almost all of our own food. What we don't grow ourselves we get at the local Amish market, though we do get some of it at the grocery store. When I buy bacon I get the stuff with no sugar. Sugar is a mild poison, as far as I'm concerned. And the worst kind is corn syrup.
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I don't bother with "organic" at all. For starters, I'm 72 and if it takes a couple of decades for that stuff to do me in, well, I'll probably have already died anyway. But I just see it as similar to "cage free" and "free range". None of those things are actually how we picture them - they just sound good. My chickens are truly free range. I know where my eggs come from: bugs on my land
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Last time I had fast food was in 1997. I got a 99 cent whopper. I have to admit it was really good.What did you expect from fast food?
Yep, if we happen to buy something prepackaged and it has any added sugar it goes back on the shelf.
Yep
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Comically, I've also (mostly) stopped drinking ANY alcohol. And it is strictly for health reasons. My home bar is closed. The only alcohol I drink is the occasional FREE old fashioned at a gig. Usually one drink every couple of months - and with a glass of water. I've never had a DUI arrest and I don't intend to ever get one.
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I'll take a good hamburger over steak 99% of the time.
Yeah, but, you know, fries.
