What are some of your unpopular opinions about food?
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Noreenmarie1234 wrote: »SuzySunshine99 wrote: »I think this may be unpopular....
Green salads are best eaten at the END of the meal instead of before or during the main course.
That is actually no scientific value.
It's a dieting trick that came out a long time ago. The idea is that by filling up with fibers and water, you will reduce the hunger and thus eat less high caloric foods from other dishes.
That depends on the salad though. If your salad is bathing in dressing you are much better eating the other dishes first 😂😂😂
But I see it!! I make the salads for my family very low calorie. When they have it last they don’t even finish their salads, when they have it first they don’t finish their other meal which is higher in calories. I am just talking about what I’ve seen in my experience I know it’s different for everyone but it drives me nuts. Then they complain they can’t lose weight when they could simply eat less calories by having the salad first instead. Of course if you plan to eat the whole meal it doesn’t matter but my family always leave food on their plates 🙄. Always the salad unless they eat it first.
I know it works, it's a great way to eat actually.
If you are counting calories it makes no sense, because you prepare your whole meal at those preset calories. But if you are not counting calories, that is a great way to eat.
I don't count calories, and that is how I eat everyday.0 -
SuzySunshine99 wrote: »I think this may be unpopular....
Green salads are best eaten at the END of the meal instead of before or during the main course.
That is actually no scientific value.
It's a dieting trick that came out a long time ago. The idea is that by filling up with fibers and water, you will reduce the hunger and thus eat less high caloric foods from other dishes.
That depends on the salad though. If your salad is bathing in dressing you are much better eating the other dishes first 😂😂😂
I wasn't saying that it's better or worse for weight management...I meant that I like it better at the end of the meal as a palate cleanser.7 -
Noreenmarie1234 wrote: »SuzySunshine99 wrote: »I think this may be unpopular....
Green salads are best eaten at the END of the meal instead of before or during the main course.
That is actually no scientific value.
It's a dieting trick that came out a long time ago. The idea is that by filling up with fibers and water, you will reduce the hunger and thus eat less high caloric foods from other dishes.
That depends on the salad though. If your salad is bathing in dressing you are much better eating the other dishes first 😂😂😂
But I see it!! I make the salads for my family very low calorie. When they have it last they don’t even finish their salads, when they have it first they don’t finish their other meal which is higher in calories. I am just talking about what I’ve seen in my experience I know it’s different for everyone but it drives me nuts. Then they complain they can’t lose weight when they could simply eat less calories by having the salad first instead. Of course if you plan to eat the whole meal it doesn’t matter but my family always leave food on their plates 🙄. Always the salad unless they eat it first.
I know it works, it's a great way to eat actually.
If you are counting calories it makes no sense, because you prepare your whole meal at those preset calories. But if you are not counting calories, that is a great way to eat.
I don't count calories, and that is how I eat everyday.
I've been calorie counting for nearly 6 years now, logged most days in that time.
It's vanishingly rare for me to "prepare my whole meal at preset calories". Normally, I prepare it (spur of the moment, not mostly a recipe-follower), eat it, then log it afterward.
Maybe, since you don't count calories, you have misunderstandings about the range of ways people do it, in practice? (I'm not denying that some people pre-log. Many do, I believe. Not all. Far from.)
Also, like @SuzySunshine99 wrote, people who calorie count can have food preferences and habits for reasons completely unrelated to calorie counts, too. It's not like calorie counting is some kind of obsession that universally takes over people's whole lives and 100% mindshare. (Financial budgeting doesn't do that: Why would calorie budgeting?)5 -
SuzySunshine99 wrote: »I think this may be unpopular....
Green salads are best eaten at the END of the meal instead of before or during the main course.
I usually eat lunch or dinner salads or salad on the side during the meal, and I enjoy pre meal salads too, but I agree that salad is a lovely way to finish a meal as well.1 -
pancakerunner wrote: »frankwbrown wrote: »I dislike... no, hate is the right word... mustard: yellow mustard, spicy mustard, Dijon mustard, Grey Poupon (something did!), any kind of mustard...
Even a dab of mustard the size of a mustard seed is too much for me!
I could eat it by the spoon!
We have deli brown mustard, yellow mustard, horseradish mustard, and two kinds of Dijon mustard.
We like mustard.
I hate honey mustard though.3 -
Most brands of soy milk actually taste better than real milk. I drink both btw1
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nicsflyingcircus wrote: »pancakerunner wrote: »frankwbrown wrote: »I dislike... no, hate is the right word... mustard: yellow mustard, spicy mustard, Dijon mustard, Grey Poupon (something did!), any kind of mustard...
Even a dab of mustard the size of a mustard seed is too much for me!
I could eat it by the spoon!
We have deli brown mustard, yellow mustard, horseradish mustard, and two kinds of Dijon mustard.
We like mustard.
I hate honey mustard though.
Also dill mustard, for me. I really love dill mustard (have only found one brand, though). I should probably put dill mustard on the "Underrated Foods" thread. 😆2 -
AshHeartsJesus wrote: »A favorite lunch from childhood summer days= bologna and cheese sandwhich with doritos in the middle finished off with a nice cold can of big red 😄
Now I would either vomit from the carbonated drink or the bologna would have me in the hospital with my gallbladder falling out. 😲
Also I tried sugar cookie kisses.....it was an awful waste of calories and fat 😢
When I used to frequent Subway, I'd get a cold cut trio with bacon, all my fixings... Make it a combo, and shove like 12 doritos into the sub.2 -
pancakerunner wrote: »
^^^ this is the hot sauce i put on my stuff
I buy the fire sauce1 -
nicsflyingcircus wrote: »pancakerunner wrote: »frankwbrown wrote: »I dislike... no, hate is the right word... mustard: yellow mustard, spicy mustard, Dijon mustard, Grey Poupon (something did!), any kind of mustard...
Even a dab of mustard the size of a mustard seed is too much for me!
I could eat it by the spoon!
We have deli brown mustard, yellow mustard, horseradish mustard, and two kinds of Dijon mustard.
We like mustard.
I hate honey mustard though.
Also dill mustard, for me. I really love dill mustard (have only found one brand, though). I should probably put dill mustard on the "Underrated Foods" thread. 😆
Oooh I need to look for that. Love me some Dill.2 -
nicsflyingcircus wrote: »nicsflyingcircus wrote: »pancakerunner wrote: »frankwbrown wrote: »I dislike... no, hate is the right word... mustard: yellow mustard, spicy mustard, Dijon mustard, Grey Poupon (something did!), any kind of mustard...
Even a dab of mustard the size of a mustard seed is too much for me!
I could eat it by the spoon!
We have deli brown mustard, yellow mustard, horseradish mustard, and two kinds of Dijon mustard.
We like mustard.
I hate honey mustard though.
Also dill mustard, for me. I really love dill mustard (have only found one brand, though). I should probably put dill mustard on the "Underrated Foods" thread. 😆
Oooh I need to look for that. Love me some Dill.
@nicsflyingcircus, this is the one I've been buying locally. It's not a fancy brand, but I think it's quite tasty:
https://www.silverspringfoods.com/products/dill-mustard/
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Noreenmarie1234 wrote: »SuzySunshine99 wrote: »I think this may be unpopular....
Green salads are best eaten at the END of the meal instead of before or during the main course.
That is actually no scientific value.
It's a dieting trick that came out a long time ago. The idea is that by filling up with fibers and water, you will reduce the hunger and thus eat less high caloric foods from other dishes.
That depends on the salad though. If your salad is bathing in dressing you are much better eating the other dishes first 😂😂😂
But I see it!! I make the salads for my family very low calorie. When they have it last they don’t even finish their salads, when they have it first they don’t finish their other meal which is higher in calories. I am just talking about what I’ve seen in my experience I know it’s different for everyone but it drives me nuts. Then they complain they can’t lose weight when they could simply eat less calories by having the salad first instead. Of course if you plan to eat the whole meal it doesn’t matter but my family always leave food on their plates 🙄. Always the salad unless they eat it first.
I know it works, it's a great way to eat actually.
If you are counting calories it makes no sense, because you prepare your whole meal at those preset calories. But if you are not counting calories, that is a great way to eat.
I don't count calories, and that is how I eat everyday.
I've been calorie counting for nearly 6 years now, logged most days in that time.
It's vanishingly rare for me to "prepare my whole meal at preset calories". Normally, I prepare it (spur of the moment, not mostly a recipe-follower), eat it, then log it afterward.
Maybe, since you don't count calories, you have misunderstandings about the range of ways people do it, in practice? (I'm not denying that some people pre-log. Many do, I believe. Not all. Far from.)
Also, like @SuzySunshine99 wrote, people who calorie count can have food preferences and habits for reasons completely unrelated to calorie counts, too. It's not like calorie counting is some kind of obsession that universally takes over people's whole lives and 100% mindshare. (Financial budgeting doesn't do that: Why would calorie budgeting?)
I guess we are different. When I used to count calories I would weigh food to have the exact calories before cooking. I would do that every meal. My dietician gave me the quantities and I would cook them.4 -
more often than not, salads ARE the main meal for me.5
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I think pork chops and pork tenderloin are gross1
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pancakerunner wrote: »I think pork chops and pork tenderloin are gross
My favorite food and all time go-to.1 -
Those chocolate cakes on the other thread just don't do anything for me.0
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SuzySunshine99 wrote: »I think this may be unpopular....
Green salads are best eaten at the END of the meal instead of before or during the main course.
+1 .. we also eat our salad at the end
I think it is a European thing (I'm Cdn but my husband is European)0 -
pancakerunner wrote: »I think pork chops and pork tenderloin are gross
They are a staple in my house. Nearly every week we have either grilled pork chops or roasted pork loin.
So important to cook it correctly...overcooked pork is the worst.1 -
pancakerunner wrote: »I think pork chops and pork tenderloin are gross
I don't think they are gross, but they are on the bottom of my list. I'm just not a huge fan of them. Even when they are cooked correctly (aka not cooked until shoe leather). Yet for some reason on my last trip to Costco I bought a big pack of super thick center cut chops. Waste of money for me, though I am trying to get through them.0 -
Those chocolate cakes on the other thread just don't do anything for me.
Yeah...you know, I like cake, but not chocolate on top of chocolate on top of chocolate. It's too much of the same thing.
I prefer chocolate as ONE element of the cake...such as vanilla cake with chocolate frosting and a caramel sauce.
Or chocolate cake with vanilla frosting and a berry coulee.
Some sort of contrast is good so it's not all one note.1 -
SuzySunshine99 wrote: »Those chocolate cakes on the other thread just don't do anything for me.
Yeah...you know, I like cake, but not chocolate on top of chocolate on top of chocolate. It's too much of the same thing.
I prefer chocolate as ONE element of the cake...such as vanilla cake with chocolate frosting and a caramel sauce.
Or chocolate cake with vanilla frosting and a berry coulee.
Some sort of contrast is good so it's not all one note.
Same here !!!!0 -
Noreenmarie1234 wrote: »SuzySunshine99 wrote: »Those chocolate cakes on the other thread just don't do anything for me.
Yeah...you know, I like cake, but not chocolate on top of chocolate on top of chocolate. It's too much of the same thing.
I prefer chocolate as ONE element of the cake...such as vanilla cake with chocolate frosting and a caramel sauce.
Or chocolate cake with vanilla frosting and a berry coulee.
Some sort of contrast is good so it's not all one note.
Same here !!!!
Agree...needs texture - that's why I love nuts/dried fruit and chocolate, etc., 'cause, I do absolutely love chocolate!0 -
Noreenmarie1234 wrote: »SuzySunshine99 wrote: »I think this may be unpopular....
Green salads are best eaten at the END of the meal instead of before or during the main course.
That is actually no scientific value.
It's a dieting trick that came out a long time ago. The idea is that by filling up with fibers and water, you will reduce the hunger and thus eat less high caloric foods from other dishes.
That depends on the salad though. If your salad is bathing in dressing you are much better eating the other dishes first 😂😂😂
But I see it!! I make the salads for my family very low calorie. When they have it last they don’t even finish their salads, when they have it first they don’t finish their other meal which is higher in calories. I am just talking about what I’ve seen in my experience I know it’s different for everyone but it drives me nuts. Then they complain they can’t lose weight when they could simply eat less calories by having the salad first instead. Of course if you plan to eat the whole meal it doesn’t matter but my family always leave food on their plates 🙄. Always the salad unless they eat it first.
I know it works, it's a great way to eat actually.
If you are counting calories it makes no sense, because you prepare your whole meal at those preset calories. But if you are not counting calories, that is a great way to eat.
I don't count calories, and that is how I eat everyday.
I've been calorie counting for nearly 6 years now, logged most days in that time.
It's vanishingly rare for me to "prepare my whole meal at preset calories". Normally, I prepare it (spur of the moment, not mostly a recipe-follower), eat it, then log it afterward.
Maybe, since you don't count calories, you have misunderstandings about the range of ways people do it, in practice? (I'm not denying that some people pre-log. Many do, I believe. Not all. Far from.)
Also, like @SuzySunshine99 wrote, people who calorie count can have food preferences and habits for reasons completely unrelated to calorie counts, too. It's not like calorie counting is some kind of obsession that universally takes over people's whole lives and 100% mindshare. (Financial budgeting doesn't do that: Why would calorie budgeting?)
I guess we are different. When I used to count calories I would weigh food to have the exact calories before cooking. I would do that every meal. My dietician gave me the quantities and I would cook them.
Personally, when logging, I log as I'm cooking, but I don't adjust portions (I have a pretty good sense of what combinations will be in the ballpark for my day as a whole). If I accidentally eat more at an earlier meal than I expected, I will intentionally eat fewer cals at a later meal.
When I started logging I had already been losing weight and realized that I was actually eating less than I should be based on my own knowledge about how to cut cals (basically portion control and reducing added fat plus cutting out snacking which I tend to find an easy way to rack up cals but not satiating for me). Using MFP, I realized I could be less restrictive, and added back in reasonable portions of some higher cal foods (dressings with olive oil, cheese, more nuts and seeds, olives, so on). But I never worked from a pre set diet. That wouldn't work for me at all, as I would dislike it -- I like to be able to wing it when cooking.4 -
pancakerunner wrote: »more often than not, salads ARE the main meal for me.
That's how I eat most of my salads too, and during warmer weather I tend to have one for lunch daily. I still eat them during winter, but I tend to have a ton of soups or stews as a meal instead (which typically contain many of the same ingredients, just cooked instead). I remember you aren't a soup fan, but I love it, and am obsessed with soups and stews lately.2 -
SuzySunshine99 wrote: »pancakerunner wrote: »I think pork chops and pork tenderloin are gross
They are a staple in my house. Nearly every week we have either grilled pork chops or roasted pork loin.
So important to cook it correctly...overcooked pork is the worst.SuzySunshine99 wrote: »Those chocolate cakes on the other thread just don't do anything for me.
Yeah...you know, I like cake, but not chocolate on top of chocolate on top of chocolate. It's too much of the same thing.
I prefer chocolate as ONE element of the cake...such as vanilla cake with chocolate frosting and a caramel sauce.
Or chocolate cake with vanilla frosting and a berry coulee.
Some sort of contrast is good so it's not all one note.
100% agree with both of these.0 -
SuzySunshine99 wrote: »pancakerunner wrote: »I think pork chops and pork tenderloin are gross
They are a staple in my house. Nearly every week we have either grilled pork chops or roasted pork loin.
So important to cook it correctly...overcooked pork is the worst.SuzySunshine99 wrote: »Those chocolate cakes on the other thread just don't do anything for me.
Yeah...you know, I like cake, but not chocolate on top of chocolate on top of chocolate. It's too much of the same thing.
I prefer chocolate as ONE element of the cake...such as vanilla cake with chocolate frosting and a caramel sauce.
Or chocolate cake with vanilla frosting and a berry coulee.
Some sort of contrast is good so it's not all one note.
100% agree with both of these.
I actually prefer the chocolate on chocolate combo!0 -
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Cheese pizza is so bblah imo0 -
Same here. I don't care for pepperoni or sausage on pizza for the most part. That last pizza pictured was much better, and I like various vegetables on pizza for sure.0 -
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