Read your labels!! GROSS!
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You realize skin is on the chicken fairly often right?
Yeah.
I hope you never find out what a hot dog actually is
Ignorance really is bliss huh?0 -
I've been trying to make a more concerted effort to read food labels -- not just the general nutrition information, but the ingredients as well. ALL of the ingredients.
One of my potential choices for lunch today was soup. Aside from sodium, the overall nutritional information looked pretty good. Then, I read the ingredients.
What does that say? Chicken skin....? :noway: Yes, that's right. Chicken SKIN! In my soup!
GROSS!!! :sick: :sick: :sick:
Something like that might actually push me considerably closer to the idea of eating clean. No surprise animal "parts" in something that is whole and unprocessed, right? I guess I'll think about that some more when my appetite returns.
that's the best part, you know.
(because that's where the flavor is.)0 -
Chicken skin is used to make broth.. it's what makes the broth taste like broth..
Yea.. once you start reading labels and then actually finding out what all that stuff is.. you'll cook for yourself from here on out.
I eat about 90% clean and it's made a huge difference in my life.
It's really not hard to cook everyday, doesn't take much time unless you are doing something involved. my dinner tonight roasted butternut squash and sauteed pork chop.. under 400 calories, no added crap and it took 30 minutes total. Only cause the squash had to roast.
Try it.. eating clean.. the down side? I am very sensitive to fat, salt and sugar now. LOL.
I still eat take out and pizza and go to restaurants, just not often.
Even spaghetti sauce has some surprising stuff in it. You'd think it's just tomatos, peppers, onions, garlic and basil. well mine is (basic sauce anyway).. check out what it's the prego!! LOL0 -
I don't see how chicken skin is worse than chicken bones or organs which often go into stock. I even eat chicken livers, my last cat used to eat raw chicken hearts and raw pork kidneys that stank of urine. Nom nom nom said my little obligate carnivore.0
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When I am eating baked chicken, I will usually wrap a nice big piece of skin around the last delicious morsel of meat, and enjoy every single chew of my mouth!
Soul Mates.
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Guess Spam is out of the question....................................mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm Spam, rice and eggs!
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When I am eating baked chicken, I will usually wrap a nice big piece of skin around the last delicious morsel of meat, and enjoy every single chew of my mouth!
Soul Mates. :laugh:
Make it a threesome. It's the best part.0 -
Wow your worried about chicken skin? Do you know whats in a nugget? Or heck the chemicals we're being poisoned with on a daily basis. I wouldn't be worried about chicken skin.
The one you see a lot in processed food that pisses me off is cellulose.
Wood pulp.0 -
One can eat 'clean' and chicken skin would be included in this lifestyle, as long as it's from non-processed, no hormone, no antibiotic chicken. It's the chickens raised without skin that should scare someone into eating clean.
What is wrong with eating chicken skin from a chicken that has had antibotics?0 -
I see using all of the chicken (skin & all ) but the skin is where all the fat & calories come from. So I would like to think you chill the stock & remove the fat from the top. Right?:noway:I've been trying to make a more concerted effort to read food labels -- not just the general nutrition information, but the ingredients as well. ALL of the ingredients.
One of my potential choices for lunch today was soup. Aside from sodium, the overall nutritional information looked pretty good. Then, I read the ingredients.
What does that say? Chicken skin....? :noway: Yes, that's right. Chicken SKIN! In my soup!
GROSS!!! :sick: :sick: :sick:
Something like that might actually push me considerably closer to the idea of eating clean. No surprise animal "parts" in something that is whole and unprocessed, right? I guess I'll think about that some more when my appetite returns.
Chicken skin isn't all that gross and it's a pretty flavorful part to use to make a broth, as well as the bones and organs. Now if you'd said chicken feet (even though a delicacy in some cultures) I'd have been grossed out. I mean most people eat the chicken skin when they have fried chicken.
Why would they? Fat makes things tasty.0 -
Guess Spam is out of the question....................................mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm Spam, rice and eggs!
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Favorite Comfort Food!0 -
Chicken Skin is fine0
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Chicken was the meat that I had the most difficult time giving up. Skins were my favorite part of the chicken.0
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I don't read labels. You can scare yourself out of eating even the healthiest foods. Ignorance is bliss.
Which is why my favorite food group is bologna.0 -
If you're that freaked out by chicken skin, you might want to consider vegetarianism. Seriously. It has nothing to do with eating "clean". "Clean eating" has to do with eating more whole foods, and no processed foods. A whole chicken with skin on is actually "cleaner" than a nice hygienic package of skinless, boneless chicken breasts.I've been trying to make a more concerted effort to read food labels -- not just the general nutrition information, but the ingredients as well. ALL of the ingredients.
One of my potential choices for lunch today was soup. Aside from sodium, the overall nutritional information looked pretty good. Then, I read the ingredients.
What does that say? Chicken skin....? :noway: Yes, that's right. Chicken SKIN! In my soup!
GROSS!!! :sick: :sick: :sick:
Something like that might actually push me considerably closer to the idea of eating clean. No surprise animal "parts" in something that is whole and unprocessed, right? I guess I'll think about that some more when my appetite returns.
I guess it's a shock if you're not familiar with how commonly chicken stock is used in soups, but that could be avoided by eating vegetarian soups.0 -
Guess Spam is out of the question....................................mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm Spam, rice and eggs!
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You must be from Hawaii or at least have ties to the islands! I am from Oahu and just you saying spam/rice/eggs combo makes me wanna run home and make some NOW! But, not in the budget right now....0 -
I see using all of the chicken (skin & all ) but the skin is where all the fat & calories come from. So I would like to think you chill the stock & remove the fat from the top. Right?:noway:
That's how we always made it at my house. At least that's how my mom taught me to do it. Simmer it all for hours, strain, refrigerate, skim off the fat layer and tada. If you wanted, you could even warm it up a big more and strain it through cheesecloth but that's just a little too much.0 -
:happy: Gotta have a bologna sandwich every once in awhile. And when you do have it, it's paradise. :glasses:I don't read labels. You can scare yourself out of eating even the healthiest foods. Ignorance is bliss.
Which is why my favorite food group is bologna.0 -
I would eat just about anything if it tasted good and wasn't harmful....I mean, canebelism isn't even off my list....
DA *kitten*? :noway:0 -
I would eat just about anything if it tasted good and wasn't harmful....I mean, canebelism isn't even off my list....
DA *kitten*? :noway:
Tastes like chicken... :laugh: :laugh:0 -
Seriously? You've never had the skin off roasted or fried chicken or something?? What an odd reaction to chicken skin.I've been trying to make a more concerted effort to read food labels -- not just the general nutrition information, but the ingredients as well. ALL of the ingredients.
One of my potential choices for lunch today was soup. Aside from sodium, the overall nutritional information looked pretty good. Then, I read the ingredients.
What does that say? Chicken skin....? :noway: Yes, that's right. Chicken SKIN! In my soup!
GROSS!!! :sick: :sick: :sick:
Something like that might actually push me considerably closer to the idea of eating clean. No surprise animal "parts" in something that is whole and unprocessed, right? I guess I'll think about that some more when my appetite returns.0 -
Guess Spam is out of the question....................................mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm Spam, rice and eggs!
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You must be from Hawaii or at least have ties to the islands! I am from Oahu and just you saying spam/rice/eggs combo makes me wanna run home and make some NOW! But, not in the budget right now....
Yep, part Hawaiian transplanted to the Pacific Northwest; miss home on a daily basis even though I've been gone so long. I did actually check out the nutritional label on the spam thinking well....maybe....but NO. Too many calories and junk to spare those calories. Shucks!0 -
Better not learn what Jello is made of -
boiled bones!0 -
I do believe chicken skin would be considered clean.0
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Chicken was the meat that I had the most difficult time giving up. Skins were my favorite part of the chicken.
why would you give up meat!!!! That means giving up BACON!!!! and bacon is DELICIOUS.
And yeah- I don't understand the over-reaction.
Skin is nommmy0 -
First World Problem Award!
Right here.0 -
Guess Spam is out of the question....................................mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm Spam, rice and eggs!
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You must be from Hawaii or at least have ties to the islands! I am from Oahu and just you saying spam/rice/eggs combo makes me wanna run home and make some NOW! But, not in the budget right now....
Yep, part Hawaiian transplanted to the Pacific Northwest; miss home on a daily basis even though I've been gone so long. I did actually check out the nutritional label on the spam thinking well....maybe....but NO. Too many calories and junk to spare those calories. Shucks!
Debating on making spam/egg musubi tomorrow or kimchee fried rice with spam. Decisions, decisions.0 -
^^^^ Love making my own stock. It does wonders to food!!!
^^ That's on my list of cooking things to learn. I am still buying chicken stock at the store.
Here's an entry in my hobby cooking blog for easy homemade chicken soup starting with leftover chicken. You can even start with leftovers from a rotisserie chicken from the deli counter. And, yes, in goes the skin, bones, and all to start. Try that and then you can move on to making stock in bulk and keeping it in the freezer to grab at a moment's notice.
http://heidicookssupper.com/blog/2009/03/22/chicken-soup-youll-never-eat-canned-soup-again/
And, no, my blog is not trying to sell anything.0 -
Hmm...OP has not tried to defend her outrage at chicken skin. Perhaps she has seen the error of her ways...0
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When I eat fried chicken (maybe twice a year), I usually eat the skin and throw out the rest :laugh:0
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