[Sca-cooks] snails and puppy dog tails...

[Patricia Dunham]

the "This, Not That" books are FASCINATING!  I think they started from Men's Health magazine???  There are about 6 variations and updates that I've personally seen (my public library has them all).  Eat This, a fast-food variation, a COOK THIS(!), an "at the supermarket"!!!  

Their analyses are big on things like "X chain's donut-A is 6 tsp of sugar vs. Y chain's donut-A is 32 tsp of sugar" ...  fat, sugar & salt content is what they focus on, and boy is it edumacational!

As a Left-Coaster who doesn't do manufactured food or chain restaurants, it's kind of academic, but... FASCINATING!  By academic, I mean, the brand names seem to be mostly MidWestern & East Coast & Southern ... I assume, because probably 80-90% of each 2-page spread will be things I've never heard of or seen here in Oregon!, so it's kind of hard to apply to brands I do know.  They do have good sections in most of the books on reading labels and nutritional info, translating chemical-speak "ingredients," and so forth.

Also, about travel food?  I have a couple of REAL picky eaters, and some genuine food sensitivities... when we do the 9-hr-one-way drive to grandma's, it's Wendy's (plain burgers, PLAIN, NO CHEESE, just the meat and bread), and KFC original recipe white meat.  When we're at home, add Dairy Queen plain burgers, and that's about it for junque foode for the pickies!  Boring but safe.  (We dropped BurgerK out of the rotation about a year ago when the "pink ammonia slime" thing came out.)  I also pack a ton of "home food" bits.

chimene


On Jan 27, 2011, at 4:11 PM, Kathleen Roberts wrote:

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> 
>>>> <lilinah at earthlink.net> 1/27/2011 4:51 PM >>>
> i am never going to eat in an Applebees again, once was one time too 
> many, the mashed potatoes and steamed vegetables were all saturated 
> with artificial butter flavor, patooey! I asked from some without and 
> they looked at me like i had two heads.)
> 
> i just found a little book called "Eat This, Not That" which goes into the better choices in fast and casual dining foods.  Pretty interesting.    Tells you why the choices are bad.... apparently Outback bastes everything in butter, including the butter. ;)
> 
> Make you think a lot about what looks good on a menu.   sounds like you could help write it! ;)
> 
> cailte
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