The best salsa in your grocery store January 17, 2010
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Hell On The Red in mild (hot is too hot) is simply the best salsa I have ever had out of a jar.
It taste 100% fresh. You could fool anyone into thinking this stuff is homemade.
It is also better than half of the Mexican restaurants around here (which isn’t saying much for around here). But still…
It says a serving size is 2 Tbsp. Ha. I go through 1 jar in 2-3 sittings.
Shame on you P&G January 11, 2009
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I need to follow my Chips Ahoy complaint with another gripe about a popular food that’s being deprived of its quality reputation. I’m looking at you, Pringles.
Blog readers, I know what you’re thinking. The fact that I’ve brought up junk food twice recently is mere coincidence, I promise. Now, back on topic…
Once upon a time, Pringles was the gold standard in potato chips. Today, Pringles are much “lighter”. And by lighter I mean brittle, less dense, and generally vapid of its prior qualities. These days a Pringle is about as ridged and crisp as the Dead Sea Scrolls. I’m sure Proctor & Gamble’s drive to maintain consumer price increases with less “stuff” in their products is behind this travesty.
And that brings be back to the aforementioned coincidence. Maybe my food quality gripes about junk food are no coincidence. There’s no coincidence that the likes of broccoli, ground sirloin, and salmon are as good now as they have ever been. The P&G’s of the world can’t downgrade those!
Lesson learned.
Generics as good or better than name brand January 4, 2009
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- Kroger fat free cottage cheese
- Kroger beef jerky
- Kroger pork rinds (stop it – fat doesn’t make you fat)
Shame on you, Chips Ahoy! December 18, 2008
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Not long ago, a Chips Ahoy chocolate chip cookie was about the diameter of a baseball. Today, they’re little bigger than a golf ball. The cookies are also a lot less dense than they used to be. All in all, I bet there are 50% less material ingredients in this thing.
I’m not even gonna try the bite size. Mainly because I don’t have a pair of tweezers handy.
Ultimately, oil is behind this. Over the last 5 years as oil went from $25 to $147, the price of commodities (food) skyrocketed.
But still…I’m disappointed, Nabisco. This is pathetic.
Julep January 4, 2008
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I had the best meal I’ve had in a long, long time last night. It came from Julep in Jackson, MS. Anita and I both had last night’s special. Not on the menu, it consisted of grilled sea bass topped with fresh crawfish salsa. Crawfish salsa is apparently crawfish, corn, and blackeyed peas in some kind of red sauce. Served on the side was the meatiest crab cake I’ve ever eaten and a spicy smoked hickory bacon & spinach risotto.
It was absolutely fantastic, as has been every dish I’ve ever had from Julep. For southern dining with a hip twist, I highly recommend Julep.
By the way, if you’re into wine, they have a huge wine menu with minimal markup over retail.
Cheatin good July 27, 2007
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My nutrition program proclaims that 100% adherence to proper eating offers no benefits over 90% adherence. So it follows that 10% of the time, you can be a rouge eater. So I got my rouge on tonight with a Rouge Dead Guy Ale and my (new) favorite pizza from Mellow Mushroom – pepperoni, italian sausage, and garlic on their signature sourdough bread crust. Mmmmm…..
I highly recommend Dead Guy to anybody that likes dry medium bodied brown or amber beers. At fist it delivers a hint of caramel sweetness, followed by a slight hoppy bitterness, and then a lingering malty after taste. All the flavors are well-balanced. Dead Guy has just enough carbonation to keep it from coming off flat, but not enough to make it fizzy. Great stuff.
NCAA bans peanut butter June 19, 2007
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The NCAA has stepped forward, again, with another inconceivable policy. AOL’s surprisingly hip Fanhouse reports that the NCAA has banned schools from supplying athletes supplements which are more than 30% protein. Included in this banishment would be shanecrowe.org mainstay, peanut butter.
Now you might think peanut butter would be more of a food than a supplement. Shanecrowe.org thinks so too, as would NCAA schools except that the NCAA won’t let schools provide more than one meal per day to athletes. I guess that makes anything else a supplement.
Players aren’t banned from taking protein-rich supplements. But they must do so on their own. So the NCAA’s infinite wisdom leaves athletes out in the cold to navigate the confusing and even dangerous world of supplements.
That’s nuts. In their desire to make athletes safer, they’ve made them more prone to mistakes and danger than ever. Good job, NCAA.
Nutritional misinformation of the day April 19, 2007
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Today’s mass confusion comes from the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. I must admit I’m surprised at this misstep coming from an organization like that instead of an opportunistic book writer. Their little study lasted all of 6 months and tested a grand total of 34 people. From that, they’ve made some awfully sweeping statements. An article in that journal claims that calories, not carbs, are most important for dieting. They also say the type of carbs you eat isn’t important.
Unfortunately they failed to account or test for individual carb tolerance. Thyroid and other health issues aside, ever wonder why some people seemingly stay slim no matter what while others gain wait from watching a Dairy Queen commercial? Mmm…carb tolerance.
They also didn’t consider carb timing – that is, when carbs should or shouldn’t be eaten. There is expert advice out there based on years of sports nutrition and fitness that suggests carb timing is everything. Generally speaking, eating carbs earlier in the day is better while later in the day or night is worse. Eating starchy, sugary carbs is actually recommended in the hour following exercise. But those same carbs are awful before bedtime.
I can personally attest to those carb-timing facts. Fourty seven pounds of weight loss over the last year says this carb timing thing is for real. Get this – I eat 500 calories within an hour of bedtime EVERY DAY. But there’s not a single carb in there. Its all protein and fat – mostly protein.
While it is certain that you must maintain a calorie deficit to lose weight, they couldn’t be more wrong about their carb statements. Carb type and especially carb timing is extremely important with respect to fat loss. Since the study failed to consider this, it is no surprise that their approach had the same unimpressive result as the old tried and failed method of fat loss – calorie counting.
Ketchup lovers, rejoice! April 1, 2007
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I love ketchup. Always have. Until my health kick I started last year (I’ve dropped 43 pounds – go me!).
Virtually all of the calories in ketchup come from high fructose corn syrup (HFCS), a pre-digested form of sugar with no nutritive value. HFCS does nothing but add to your waistline. Sure, its got only 15 calories per tablespoon. For me, that equates to two bites. But pick up that bottle of ketchup, hold it net to your stomach and visualize your belly sticking out that much further. Because that’s all that ketchup is ‘good’ for.
Until now. FINALLY, at long last, food-makers are ditching super-refined un-nutritive ingredients for real food, or at least concoctions that aren’t so awful for you. I’m getting off track here, but Lays is making potato chips with potatoes (what a concept), sunflower oil, and salt instead of potatoes, trans fats, and a host of other garbage. They’ve upgraded potato chips from dangerous for your health to just plain no-so-great for your health.
Anyway…back to ketchup. Ta-da!!!
Heinz finally has low-sugar ketchup. Not only that, its got zero HFCS in it. The sweetener is from sucralose (splenda). It has 5 calories per tablespoon instead of 15 and 1 carb instead of 4. And it tastes pretty good too. And…it comes in an itty bitty bottle that costs as much as the big bottle. But so what – your health is worth it.
The anotomy of a McNugget March 23, 2007
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Al Nye The Lawyer Guy has a good writeup on what’s really inside the McDonald’s Chicken McNugget. We all know these fried fast food bombs are unhealthy. But I had no idea they’re actually 56% corn and a deliverer of small amounts of lighter fluid.
Bloody hell, McDonald’s what are you thinking? Please, make a decision to feed us food instead of some concoction of chemicals and derivatives that tastes (on a good day) like food.
No, I haven’t seen Super Size Me. But it is in my Netflix queue.
