[Sca-cooks] Cook's Night Out

[M. Traber]

Sue Clemenger wrote:

> That's really weird.  I do WW, and nobody does any yelling at all, and 
> we don't have "coaches," either....just speakers that organize the 
> meetings and various little cheerful types that do the weighing-in and 
> such.  As a matter of fact, the whole program is very heavily into 
> getting away from labeling foods as "good" or "bad" and into teaching 
> you all about portion control and nutritional info and that sort of 
> thing.  I can't think of a single food out there that's on some sort of 
> no-no list, although some stuff you'd want to eat in small portions.
> Makes me wonder if there was some sort of other dynamic going on with 
> your friend, or if she attended years back (WW used to have some 
> *weird*- at ssed rules, like liver twice a week <blech>)....If I'd been 
> her, I would have turned that person in to WW management or whoever so 
> fast, someone's head would have been spinning!
> --maire
Hm, is 3 years ago considered long? I know in some corporate identities 
they change policies like many people change their underwear=\

I never bothered going to a formal WWish program of any sort, especially 
ones where they provide food for a number of reasons...I am deathly 
allergic to mushrooms and many of the prepackaged foods they CANNOT 
guarentee to be free from shrooms in the 'natural flavors' ... and are 
'accented' with lots of bell and otehr peppers ... or require you to 
follow their recipes and as above, shrooms, peppers...also zucchuni, 
eggplant, okra are the most detestable things on earth=) I much prefer 
to be able to be free to use my own recipes and eat foods i actually 
like the taste of. Just give me copious amounts of fresh spinach, baby 
bok choy, artichokes, asparagus, broccoli, cauliflower, celery, garlic, 
brussels sprouts, cabbage .... and step back so you dont get hurt in the 
stampede towards them=)

dang, now i am in the mood for mixed stirfried greens with a touch of 
crumbled bacon, bacon fat and balsamic dressing=(
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