CI/CO vs Clean Eating

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  • lemurcat12
    lemurcat12 Posts: 30,886 Member
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    To be fair to kshama, the canned soup in recipes thing was a challenge to my point about how it's silly to ask for "clean eating" recipes, just use a cookbook.

    I don't think the fact that you can find cookbooks that incorporate canned foods (or pre-made crackers or the like), which of course you can, really counters my point that most regular cookbooks generally have recipes that are based on whole foods. The ones that don't tend to be themed (like the crock pot one or the I Hate to Cook one or Semi-Homemade, of course).

    But I'm not sure if her point was supposed to be that canned foods are scary (although perhaps it was) vs. just that some recipes use such ingredients.

    I continue to think that if you think you need to find a special "clean" cookbook to learn to cook without those ingredients you aren't being sensible and have never actually looked at many recipes. (Which, happily, are easily available all over the internet, as well as in bookstores, which I understand still exist.)
  • ndj1979
    ndj1979 Posts: 29,136 Member
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    Mr_Knight wrote: »
    ndj1979 wrote: »
    Oh geez! This subject always elicits a ton of replies. I thought this was the same discussion from a month ago until I saw the date.

    The definition of clean eating varies from person to person. If you are progressing the way you want and your health is fine, then that is the plan for you. Don't think you are doing things wrong based on someone else.

    I have to mix things up or I will go crazy so I always make room for an indulgence but still stay under my calorie goal. I could eat unhealthy food and stay under my calorie goal but it would hinder my progress. It's all psychological and the more bad foods I eat the more I crave them. Also I tried the method of eating whatever and just working out a lot but it only made me want to eat more and it taught me no discipline. And eating well makes me feel soooo good.

    care to define some of these unhealthy foods, and why they are unhealthy?

    Any food that makes it difficult for me to meet my macro and calorie goals.

    I was not really asking you, but thanks for your response.

    So if you can't fit some whole wheat bread into your macro goal for the day because your carbs are already high then that is unhealthy? Really?
  • lemurcat12
    lemurcat12 Posts: 30,886 Member
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    I prefer to eat "clean" just because I feel better overall. When I eat mcdonalds and all the processed foods, I tend to feel rundown. But, its your personal preference. If you're looking to lose weight, calories in/calories out is all that matters.

    How are you defining "processed food" here.
  • isulo_kura
    isulo_kura Posts: 818 Member
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    Mr_Knight wrote: »
    ndj1979 wrote: »
    Oh geez! This subject always elicits a ton of replies. I thought this was the same discussion from a month ago until I saw the date.

    The definition of clean eating varies from person to person. If you are progressing the way you want and your health is fine, then that is the plan for you. Don't think you are doing things wrong based on someone else.

    I have to mix things up or I will go crazy so I always make room for an indulgence but still stay under my calorie goal. I could eat unhealthy food and stay under my calorie goal but it would hinder my progress. It's all psychological and the more bad foods I eat the more I crave them. Also I tried the method of eating whatever and just working out a lot but it only made me want to eat more and it taught me no discipline. And eating well makes me feel soooo good.

    care to define some of these unhealthy foods, and why they are unhealthy?

    Any food that makes it difficult for me to meet my macro and calorie goals.

    Just because a food wont fit into your personal goals does not make it unhealthy that is probably one of the silliest definitions of an unhealthy food i've ever heard on MFP
  • Mr_Knight
    Mr_Knight Posts: 9,532 Member
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    ndj1979 wrote: »
    Mr_Knight wrote: »
    ndj1979 wrote: »
    Oh geez! This subject always elicits a ton of replies. I thought this was the same discussion from a month ago until I saw the date.

    The definition of clean eating varies from person to person. If you are progressing the way you want and your health is fine, then that is the plan for you. Don't think you are doing things wrong based on someone else.

    I have to mix things up or I will go crazy so I always make room for an indulgence but still stay under my calorie goal. I could eat unhealthy food and stay under my calorie goal but it would hinder my progress. It's all psychological and the more bad foods I eat the more I crave them. Also I tried the method of eating whatever and just working out a lot but it only made me want to eat more and it taught me no discipline. And eating well makes me feel soooo good.

    care to define some of these unhealthy foods, and why they are unhealthy?

    Any food that makes it difficult for me to meet my macro and calorie goals.

    I was not really asking you, but thanks for your response.

    So if you can't fit some whole wheat bread into your macro goal for the day because your carbs are already high then that is unhealthy? Really?

    In that context - yes.

  • ndj1979
    ndj1979 Posts: 29,136 Member
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    isulo_kura wrote: »
    Mr_Knight wrote: »
    ndj1979 wrote: »
    Oh geez! This subject always elicits a ton of replies. I thought this was the same discussion from a month ago until I saw the date.

    The definition of clean eating varies from person to person. If you are progressing the way you want and your health is fine, then that is the plan for you. Don't think you are doing things wrong based on someone else.

    I have to mix things up or I will go crazy so I always make room for an indulgence but still stay under my calorie goal. I could eat unhealthy food and stay under my calorie goal but it would hinder my progress. It's all psychological and the more bad foods I eat the more I crave them. Also I tried the method of eating whatever and just working out a lot but it only made me want to eat more and it taught me no discipline. And eating well makes me feel soooo good.

    care to define some of these unhealthy foods, and why they are unhealthy?

    Any food that makes it difficult for me to meet my macro and calorie goals.

    Just because a food wont fit into your personal goals does not make it unhealthy that is probably one of the silliest definitions of an unhealthy food i've ever heard on MFP

    cosign
  • ndj1979
    ndj1979 Posts: 29,136 Member
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    Mr_Knight wrote: »
    ndj1979 wrote: »
    Mr_Knight wrote: »
    ndj1979 wrote: »
    Oh geez! This subject always elicits a ton of replies. I thought this was the same discussion from a month ago until I saw the date.

    The definition of clean eating varies from person to person. If you are progressing the way you want and your health is fine, then that is the plan for you. Don't think you are doing things wrong based on someone else.

    I have to mix things up or I will go crazy so I always make room for an indulgence but still stay under my calorie goal. I could eat unhealthy food and stay under my calorie goal but it would hinder my progress. It's all psychological and the more bad foods I eat the more I crave them. Also I tried the method of eating whatever and just working out a lot but it only made me want to eat more and it taught me no discipline. And eating well makes me feel soooo good.

    care to define some of these unhealthy foods, and why they are unhealthy?

    Any food that makes it difficult for me to meet my macro and calorie goals.

    I was not really asking you, but thanks for your response.

    So if you can't fit some whole wheat bread into your macro goal for the day because your carbs are already high then that is unhealthy? Really?

    In that context - yes.

    I think that qualifies as the worst definition of unhealthy food I have heard..

    anyone else care to take a crack at this?
  • Mr_Knight
    Mr_Knight Posts: 9,532 Member
    edited June 2015
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    isulo_kura wrote: »
    Mr_Knight wrote: »
    ndj1979 wrote: »
    Oh geez! This subject always elicits a ton of replies. I thought this was the same discussion from a month ago until I saw the date.

    The definition of clean eating varies from person to person. If you are progressing the way you want and your health is fine, then that is the plan for you. Don't think you are doing things wrong based on someone else.

    I have to mix things up or I will go crazy so I always make room for an indulgence but still stay under my calorie goal. I could eat unhealthy food and stay under my calorie goal but it would hinder my progress. It's all psychological and the more bad foods I eat the more I crave them. Also I tried the method of eating whatever and just working out a lot but it only made me want to eat more and it taught me no discipline. And eating well makes me feel soooo good.

    care to define some of these unhealthy foods, and why they are unhealthy?

    Any food that makes it difficult for me to meet my macro and calorie goals.

    Just because a food wont fit into your personal goals does not make it unhealthy that is probably one of the silliest definitions of an unhealthy food i've ever heard on MFP

    If I have specific health and/or fitness goals, and eating something makes it difficult for me to achieve those health health and/or fitness goals, then yes, absolutely, that something is unhealthy for me.

    You may have a different context, and it may be perfectly fine for you. You can also have a different definition of "unhealthy", if you like, makes no difference to me.

    :drinker:

    You guys can't have it both ways - either context matters, or it doesn't. You don't get to pick and choose when, and under what circumstances, it matters.
  • stevencloser
    stevencloser Posts: 8,911 Member
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    Mr_Knight wrote: »
    isulo_kura wrote: »
    Mr_Knight wrote: »
    ndj1979 wrote: »
    Oh geez! This subject always elicits a ton of replies. I thought this was the same discussion from a month ago until I saw the date.

    The definition of clean eating varies from person to person. If you are progressing the way you want and your health is fine, then that is the plan for you. Don't think you are doing things wrong based on someone else.

    I have to mix things up or I will go crazy so I always make room for an indulgence but still stay under my calorie goal. I could eat unhealthy food and stay under my calorie goal but it would hinder my progress. It's all psychological and the more bad foods I eat the more I crave them. Also I tried the method of eating whatever and just working out a lot but it only made me want to eat more and it taught me no discipline. And eating well makes me feel soooo good.

    care to define some of these unhealthy foods, and why they are unhealthy?

    Any food that makes it difficult for me to meet my macro and calorie goals.

    Just because a food wont fit into your personal goals does not make it unhealthy that is probably one of the silliest definitions of an unhealthy food i've ever heard on MFP

    If I have specific health goals, and eating something makes it difficult for me to achieve those health goals, then yes, absolutely, that something is unhealthy for me.

    You may have a different context, and it may be perfectly fine for you.

    You can also have a different definition of "unhealthy", if you like, makes no difference to me. :drinker:

    You have health goals that depend on a single food choice made on a single day?
  • Mr_Knight
    Mr_Knight Posts: 9,532 Member
    edited June 2015
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    Mr_Knight wrote: »
    isulo_kura wrote: »
    Mr_Knight wrote: »
    ndj1979 wrote: »
    Oh geez! This subject always elicits a ton of replies. I thought this was the same discussion from a month ago until I saw the date.

    The definition of clean eating varies from person to person. If you are progressing the way you want and your health is fine, then that is the plan for you. Don't think you are doing things wrong based on someone else.

    I have to mix things up or I will go crazy so I always make room for an indulgence but still stay under my calorie goal. I could eat unhealthy food and stay under my calorie goal but it would hinder my progress. It's all psychological and the more bad foods I eat the more I crave them. Also I tried the method of eating whatever and just working out a lot but it only made me want to eat more and it taught me no discipline. And eating well makes me feel soooo good.

    care to define some of these unhealthy foods, and why they are unhealthy?

    Any food that makes it difficult for me to meet my macro and calorie goals.

    Just because a food wont fit into your personal goals does not make it unhealthy that is probably one of the silliest definitions of an unhealthy food i've ever heard on MFP

    If I have specific health goals, and eating something makes it difficult for me to achieve those health goals, then yes, absolutely, that something is unhealthy for me.

    You may have a different context, and it may be perfectly fine for you.

    You can also have a different definition of "unhealthy", if you like, makes no difference to me. :drinker:

    You have health goals that depend on a single food choice made on a single day?

    I have daily goals that are dependent on my daily choices, yes.

    I also have weekly goals that depend on weekly choices.

    And monthly....and etc.

  • ndj1979
    ndj1979 Posts: 29,136 Member
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    Mr_Knight wrote: »
    isulo_kura wrote: »
    Mr_Knight wrote: »
    ndj1979 wrote: »
    Oh geez! This subject always elicits a ton of replies. I thought this was the same discussion from a month ago until I saw the date.

    The definition of clean eating varies from person to person. If you are progressing the way you want and your health is fine, then that is the plan for you. Don't think you are doing things wrong based on someone else.

    I have to mix things up or I will go crazy so I always make room for an indulgence but still stay under my calorie goal. I could eat unhealthy food and stay under my calorie goal but it would hinder my progress. It's all psychological and the more bad foods I eat the more I crave them. Also I tried the method of eating whatever and just working out a lot but it only made me want to eat more and it taught me no discipline. And eating well makes me feel soooo good.

    care to define some of these unhealthy foods, and why they are unhealthy?

    Any food that makes it difficult for me to meet my macro and calorie goals.

    Just because a food wont fit into your personal goals does not make it unhealthy that is probably one of the silliest definitions of an unhealthy food i've ever heard on MFP

    If I have specific health and/or fitness goals, and eating something makes it difficult for me to achieve those health health and/or fitness goals, then yes, absolutely, that something is unhealthy for me.

    You may have a different context, and it may be perfectly fine for you. You can also have a different definition of "unhealthy", if you like, makes no difference to me.

    :drinker:

    You guys can't have it both ways - either context matters, or it doesn't. You don't get to pick and choose when, and under what circumstances, it matters.

    ummm the context we always discuss is hitting macros/micros/calorie target. So if I hit my micros and calorie targets, but I go over on carbs, that does not make my day unhealthy; consequently, it would not make your day unhealthy, even though you think it does.

    so lets not try to change the definition just for your unique circumstance.



  • senecarr
    senecarr Posts: 5,377 Member
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    I prefer to eat "clean" just because I feel better overall. When I eat mcdonalds and all the processed foods, I tend to feel rundown. But, its your personal preference. If you're looking to lose weight, calories in/calories out is all that matters.

    Were you eating it inside? You have to eat the McDonalds outside to avoid the gazebo effect.
  • senecarr
    senecarr Posts: 5,377 Member
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    Mr_Knight wrote: »
    isulo_kura wrote: »
    Mr_Knight wrote: »
    ndj1979 wrote: »
    Oh geez! This subject always elicits a ton of replies. I thought this was the same discussion from a month ago until I saw the date.

    The definition of clean eating varies from person to person. If you are progressing the way you want and your health is fine, then that is the plan for you. Don't think you are doing things wrong based on someone else.

    I have to mix things up or I will go crazy so I always make room for an indulgence but still stay under my calorie goal. I could eat unhealthy food and stay under my calorie goal but it would hinder my progress. It's all psychological and the more bad foods I eat the more I crave them. Also I tried the method of eating whatever and just working out a lot but it only made me want to eat more and it taught me no discipline. And eating well makes me feel soooo good.

    care to define some of these unhealthy foods, and why they are unhealthy?

    Any food that makes it difficult for me to meet my macro and calorie goals.

    Just because a food wont fit into your personal goals does not make it unhealthy that is probably one of the silliest definitions of an unhealthy food i've ever heard on MFP

    If I have specific health and/or fitness goals, and eating something makes it difficult for me to achieve those health health and/or fitness goals, then yes, absolutely, that something is unhealthy for me.

    You may have a different context, and it may be perfectly fine for you. You can also have a different definition of "unhealthy", if you like, makes no difference to me.

    :drinker:

    You guys can't have it both ways - either context matters, or it doesn't. You don't get to pick and choose when, and under what circumstances, it matters.
    Hope over stressing details isn't a mental health goal, because it sounds like you could get stuck in a contradiction there.
  • Mr_Knight
    Mr_Knight Posts: 9,532 Member
    edited June 2015
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    ndj1979 wrote: »
    Mr_Knight wrote: »
    isulo_kura wrote: »
    Mr_Knight wrote: »
    ndj1979 wrote: »
    Oh geez! This subject always elicits a ton of replies. I thought this was the same discussion from a month ago until I saw the date.

    The definition of clean eating varies from person to person. If you are progressing the way you want and your health is fine, then that is the plan for you. Don't think you are doing things wrong based on someone else.

    I have to mix things up or I will go crazy so I always make room for an indulgence but still stay under my calorie goal. I could eat unhealthy food and stay under my calorie goal but it would hinder my progress. It's all psychological and the more bad foods I eat the more I crave them. Also I tried the method of eating whatever and just working out a lot but it only made me want to eat more and it taught me no discipline. And eating well makes me feel soooo good.

    care to define some of these unhealthy foods, and why they are unhealthy?

    Any food that makes it difficult for me to meet my macro and calorie goals.

    Just because a food wont fit into your personal goals does not make it unhealthy that is probably one of the silliest definitions of an unhealthy food i've ever heard on MFP

    If I have specific health and/or fitness goals, and eating something makes it difficult for me to achieve those health health and/or fitness goals, then yes, absolutely, that something is unhealthy for me.

    You may have a different context, and it may be perfectly fine for you. You can also have a different definition of "unhealthy", if you like, makes no difference to me.

    :drinker:

    You guys can't have it both ways - either context matters, or it doesn't. You don't get to pick and choose when, and under what circumstances, it matters.

    ummm the context we always discuss is hitting macros/micros/calorie target. So if I hit my micros and calorie targets, but I go over on carbs, that does not make my day unhealthy;

    That's (a) a different statement, you've moved the goalposts again, and (b) not for me to decide for you.

    ..consequently, it would not make your day unhealthy, even though you think it does.

    And now you're doing the exactt thing you complain that other people do. :smiley:

    so lets not try to change the definition just for your unique circumstance.

    Oh, the irony.

    :drinker:
  • ndj1979
    ndj1979 Posts: 29,136 Member
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    Mr_Knight wrote: »
    ndj1979 wrote: »
    Mr_Knight wrote: »
    isulo_kura wrote: »
    Mr_Knight wrote: »
    ndj1979 wrote: »
    Oh geez! This subject always elicits a ton of replies. I thought this was the same discussion from a month ago until I saw the date.

    The definition of clean eating varies from person to person. If you are progressing the way you want and your health is fine, then that is the plan for you. Don't think you are doing things wrong based on someone else.

    I have to mix things up or I will go crazy so I always make room for an indulgence but still stay under my calorie goal. I could eat unhealthy food and stay under my calorie goal but it would hinder my progress. It's all psychological and the more bad foods I eat the more I crave them. Also I tried the method of eating whatever and just working out a lot but it only made me want to eat more and it taught me no discipline. And eating well makes me feel soooo good.

    care to define some of these unhealthy foods, and why they are unhealthy?

    Any food that makes it difficult for me to meet my macro and calorie goals.

    Just because a food wont fit into your personal goals does not make it unhealthy that is probably one of the silliest definitions of an unhealthy food i've ever heard on MFP

    If I have specific health and/or fitness goals, and eating something makes it difficult for me to achieve those health health and/or fitness goals, then yes, absolutely, that something is unhealthy for me.

    You may have a different context, and it may be perfectly fine for you. You can also have a different definition of "unhealthy", if you like, makes no difference to me.

    :drinker:

    You guys can't have it both ways - either context matters, or it doesn't. You don't get to pick and choose when, and under what circumstances, it matters.

    ummm the context we always discuss is hitting macros/micros/calorie target. So if I hit my micros and calorie targets, but I go over on carbs, that does not make my day unhealthy;

    That's (a) a different statement, you've moved the goalposts again, and (b) not for me to decide for you.
    ..consequently, it would not make your day unhealthy, even though you think it does.

    And now you're doing the exactt thing you complain that other people do. :smiley:
    so lets not try to change the definition just for your unique circumstance.

    Oh, the irony.

    :drinker:

    nope, I have always said that you have to hit macros/micros/calorie targets. So I am not moving anything.

  • stevencloser
    stevencloser Posts: 8,911 Member
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    Mr_Knight wrote: »
    Mr_Knight wrote: »
    isulo_kura wrote: »
    Mr_Knight wrote: »
    ndj1979 wrote: »
    Oh geez! This subject always elicits a ton of replies. I thought this was the same discussion from a month ago until I saw the date.

    The definition of clean eating varies from person to person. If you are progressing the way you want and your health is fine, then that is the plan for you. Don't think you are doing things wrong based on someone else.

    I have to mix things up or I will go crazy so I always make room for an indulgence but still stay under my calorie goal. I could eat unhealthy food and stay under my calorie goal but it would hinder my progress. It's all psychological and the more bad foods I eat the more I crave them. Also I tried the method of eating whatever and just working out a lot but it only made me want to eat more and it taught me no discipline. And eating well makes me feel soooo good.

    care to define some of these unhealthy foods, and why they are unhealthy?

    Any food that makes it difficult for me to meet my macro and calorie goals.

    Just because a food wont fit into your personal goals does not make it unhealthy that is probably one of the silliest definitions of an unhealthy food i've ever heard on MFP

    If I have specific health goals, and eating something makes it difficult for me to achieve those health goals, then yes, absolutely, that something is unhealthy for me.

    You may have a different context, and it may be perfectly fine for you.

    You can also have a different definition of "unhealthy", if you like, makes no difference to me. :drinker:

    You have health goals that depend on a single food choice made on a single day?

    I have daily goals that are dependent on my daily choices, yes.

    I also have weekly goals that depend on weekly choices.

    And monthly....and etc.
    A single day isn't going to affect your health.
  • PeachyCarol
    PeachyCarol Posts: 8,029 Member
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    kshama2001 wrote: »
    tomatoey wrote: »
    lemurcat12 wrote: »

    I think what we are really talking about is some people eat absurd diets (and assume everyone else does) and rather than merely cutting down on sugar or fast food or the like cut it out and of course feel better. And they assume that most people ate like they used to when of course most people do not and most people know what a healthy diet is. There's no real need to go from 100% fast food (or sugar) to none, and if you do chances are you will miss it. I don't eat fast food and don't miss it because I never really ate much and don't like it, but that's why making some big point about cutting it out is not interesting to me. My guess is for those whom that's a big thing it's not a good approach. Similarly, I didn't find cutting out added sugar a big thing, so added it back in. If someone really eats so much that's a big deal, they are going to want it again. (And personally I did, and see no reason not to have it.)

    I think the diet you call absurd is more common than you think. A lot of people eat too much food that is low-value/low-satiety/low-nutrient. I think that is why there is an obesity epidemic. It's true that some might gain on what people call "clean" foods, but it's way harder to do that. Check out forums here and elsewhere, where bodybuilders strive to consume as much as possible on a "clean" diet for their gainz. It's simply not as easy to pound down 3000 calories of chicken and broccoli as it is to overindulge on chicken wings and fries, or pasta carbonara (with garlic bread, and a dessert...). Satiety tends to level off when people eat a certain way. I don't even want to give it a name at this point ;) (Also - I am not saying everyone should eat chicken and broccoli.)

    I think we actually agreed that the holy rollers who eat 0% treats are probably few, and that most people wind up doing 80/20, and use these different heuristics to think through their meals and days. I'm not bothered if they're not entirely self-consistent, as long as they're seeing results that promote normal weight (and health). I really haven't noticed rudeness, so I can't speak to that.

    Curious: what offends you about people looking for recipes? Or about the idea that some people don't know how to cook? It's a fact, there are people who don't know how to cook. Or people who cooked in ways that didn't serve their goals and now want to learn something else.

    [Deleted a bunch of comments because the nested quotes weren't quoting well.]

    I agree that bad diets are common, after all, that's why we have the term Standard American Diet.

    The Standard American Diet in 3 Simple Charts

    US obesity and diabetes rates are among the globe's very highest. Why? On her blog, the NYU nutritionist and food-politics expert Marion Nestle recently pointed (hat-tip, RealFood.org) to this telling chart on how we spend our grocery money, from the USDA's Amber Waves publication:

    USDAchart1.jpg

    So, we do a pretty good job eating enough potatoes. But the healthier, more brightly colored vegetables like kale and carrots, no so much. We spend four times the amount on refined grains the USDA thinks is proper, and about a fifth of the target expenditure in whole grains. We spend nearly 14 percent of our at-home food budgets on sugar and candies, and another 8 percent on premade frozen and fridge entrees. Whole fruit barley accounts for less than 5 percent of our grocery bill. And so on—a pretty dismal picture.

    That chart deals with at-home expenditures. What about our food choices out in the world? The USDA article has more. This chart shows that we're getting more and more of our sustenance outside of our own kitchens:

    USDA%20chart2.jpg

    And while the article doesn't offer comparable data to the above at-home chart about expenditures outside the home, it does deliver evidence that our eating out habits are pretty dire as well:

    USDAgood.jpg

    Pointless in context of the boards. As is the issue, really, of the general obesity epidemic in this discussion.

    Waving SAD around is a strawman in a lot of discussions around here.

    If you compare how you eat vs. SAD while you're discussing things with a bunch of other conscientiously dieting people, how exactly are they supposed to interpret your comments?

    What does SAD have to do with this whole discussion? What does what the general public eats have to do when it comes down to what to do when it comes to losing fat (which is, after all, the topic of the thread)?

  • AlabasterVerve
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    lemurcat12 wrote: »
    I continue to think that if you think you need to find a special "clean" cookbook to learn to cook without those ingredients you aren't being sensible and have never actually looked at many recipes.

    Or they have looked for recipes and they're not finding what they're looking for because convenience products are what's in the popular cookbooks and recipes that are affordable and readily available to most. Clean is only a pejorative on this website -- everywhere else I've seen the word used it's just a descriptor without connotation. It's perfectly sensible for people to ask for what they're looking for in terms other like minded people will understand.

    P.S. Bookstores exist but they're not readily available to everyone and never have been.
  • Alyssa_Is_LosingIt
    Alyssa_Is_LosingIt Posts: 4,696 Member
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    lemurcat12 wrote: »
    To be fair to kshama, the canned soup in recipes thing was a challenge to my point about how it's silly to ask for "clean eating" recipes, just use a cookbook.

    I don't think the fact that you can find cookbooks that incorporate canned foods (or pre-made crackers or the like), which of course you can, really counters my point that most regular cookbooks generally have recipes that are based on whole foods. The ones that don't tend to be themed (like the crock pot one or the I Hate to Cook one or Semi-Homemade, of course).

    But I'm not sure if her point was supposed to be that canned foods are scary (although perhaps it was) vs. just that some recipes use such ingredients.

    I continue to think that if you think you need to find a special "clean" cookbook to learn to cook without those ingredients you aren't being sensible and have never actually looked at many recipes. (Which, happily, are easily available all over the internet, as well as in bookstores, which I understand still exist.)

    Fair enough; however, I'm not sure why I understand why she chose photos of the ingredients of the convenience foods themselves. Why wouldn't she show pictures of the recipes calling for those convenience foods? I'd be willing to bet that the source of the photo of the soup with the circles around certain "scary" ingredients came from a biased source, at least, whose intention was to steer people away from that food due to the ingredients.

    Not arguing with you, I just think that if that were the point that kshama was trying to argue, she could've gone about it in a better way. :smile:
  • kshama2001
    kshama2001 Posts: 27,996 Member
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    lemurcat12 wrote: »
    To be fair to kshama, the canned soup in recipes thing was a challenge to my point about how it's silly to ask for "clean eating" recipes, just use a cookbook.

    I don't think the fact that you can find cookbooks that incorporate canned foods (or pre-made crackers or the like), which of course you can, really counters my point that most regular cookbooks generally have recipes that are based on whole foods. The ones that don't tend to be themed (like the crock pot one or the I Hate to Cook one or Semi-Homemade, of course).

    But I'm not sure if her point was supposed to be that canned foods are scary (although perhaps it was) vs. just that some recipes use such ingredients.

    I continue to think that if you think you need to find a special "clean" cookbook to learn to cook without those ingredients you aren't being sensible and have never actually looked at many recipes. (Which, happily, are easily available all over the internet, as well as in bookstores, which I understand still exist.)

    Yes, thanks for clearing that up. My point was indeed that there are cookbooks that use convenience foods, although I myself have only owned two of them - the other one is the Better Homes book, a gift from a friend for whom it was a family favorite.