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Logging can indeed be daunting/off-putting if you do most of your own cooking/food preparation. Entering recipes, even for me and my OC tendencies, can be a PITA. If I didn't have way too much time on my hands the past couple of years, I probably would have never tried calorie counting as someone who can count on 1-2 hands…

Telling people to "calm down"... You like to try to pull those triggers and push those buttons don't you. You're funny. Kettle:pot, guess what color you are.

Eating cholesterol does not cause cholesterol gallstones (as opposed to pigment gallstones) to form in and of itself unless there is other pathology going on somewhere. In fact, the #1 recognized cause of gallbladder cholesterol based sludge/stone formation is a patient history of chronically following a diet too low in…

I cook, portion, freeze, and reheat egg based breakfast casseroles all the time. Never had a problem with the eggs texture being off - only sometimes the vegetables it contains, dependent on the vegetable in question, releasing a bit of water during reheating. I do not reheat in the microwave. Thaw overnight in the…

Boar's Head nutritional information is available online: https://boarshead.com/nutrition/nutrition-guide

There are a lot of jobs where on paper, there's a lunch break, smoke breaks too, that do not exist in reality. A good example is many of the positions at many, many human/veterinary medical facilities. The culture at those places is you eat when/where you can. If that means the bathroom, so be it. Here's the thing. They…

It's not even about missing them. They are not even/rarely/only as an after thought ever looking at in the first place. (Source: https://theblog.okcupid.com/the-case-for-an-older-woman-99d8cabacdf5)

Unless that SO is a woman with a reasonable head as far as the realities of this world, ignore him. :\ Most men have zero ability to accurately guess what a woman's body weight is at the physical shape he prefers the most for her height. Of the men who can the reason why is frequently because he happened to know/saw you…

I measure them all. If I want more than two tablespoons of salad dressing, then I eat more than two tablespoons of salad dressing. But then I have account for those calories regardless of how many it is. Either make them fit my daily calorie limit one way or another or go for a hike with elevation gain and loss in it to…

I don't "get" all the Noosa love I've seen on this website. I looked at it in my local store and put it back. It's calories:protein ratio is atrocious and the sugar based carbs for 8 oz is a double digit number. I can fit a reasonable serving of Fage with some fresh figs and a smidge of honey in my daily calorie allotment…

Michael Angelo's Eggplant Parmesan. There can be some variation since it is small batch but if you like eggplant, you many like it and it's under 500 calories for a very satisfying proportion, based on weight. It comes in multiple serving number options, so I recommend trying the single serving first before picking up a…

Besides whatever I was eating that week for breakfast/lunch/dinner which was probably around 2.5-3.5K/day calorie-wise, I ate three dozen homemade peanut butter toffee cookies over a couple days along with a 5 oz bag of gummy bears, 3 mini-magnum ice cream bars, a 3.5 oz bag sour gummy things, a three piece Pecan Turtle,…

Just did a can of white beans (15 oz/425 grams). Label as 1 serving = 1/2 cup (130 grams), About 3.5 servings/can Beans with pot liquor: 428 grams = about 3.3 servings Beans alone: 244 grams = about 1.9 servings, based on label (now not accurate info as labeled info based on inclusion of pot liquor) So, yeah, if just using…

Chicken breeds or age at slaughter have not majorly shifted/changed in the last decade. Plumping solution and percentage by weight, however, have. So has, probably, chicken feed composition. No concrete data/facts at the moment to provide, but food for thought.

It's lack of dietary fat that causes the gallbladder to not contract and fully empty regularly, resulting in bile sludge/stone formation in the first place. Lowfat diet recommendations have resulted in a lot of gall bladders being removed in the last 40 years or so in my opinion. :\ If you already have sludge/stones, on…

Buy a digital thermometer if you are paranoid about food borne illness from under-cooked chicken. It is the only way to know, beyond cooking to a dried out piece of shoe leather, if it is cooked well enough until you get more comfortable/experience cooking. No one on the internets can tell you if yours was cooked enough…

Be proud. It is warranted. :)

Calories count when trying to lose weight. Even on ketogenic diets. BTDT, bounced up and down the same 10-15 lbs for three years while eating well under 50 grams of carb a day. Because I was eating thousands upon thousands of calories, sometimes daily, over what I was expending frequently enough to not lose any meaningful…

False. As long ago as 2010, The industry cited 1/2-2/3 of US flocks were voluntarily vaccinated for Salmonella. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/25/business/25vaccine.html As recent as late 2014, USDA APHIS released an Info Sheet concerning Salmonella vaccination and egg quality programs in the US:…

I suspect that the nutrition label on beans is for the beans + pot liquor in the can. If you're like me (and most normal people I'd like to think), you drained the pot liquor because the commercial stuff is super gross due to the amount of salt and/or stabilizing preservatives contained therein and rinsed the beans briefly…

Soy is pretty universal to commercial chicken feed. In fact, it is a right PITA to find commercial scratch without soy and when you do, you pay a significant premium for it. :\ From Eggland's Best FAQ @ http://www.egglandsbest.com/faqs/ (emphasis mine): Also, "cage-free" just means they are not in cages. There is no…

From the quoted website, under the 'Weighing the Risk" header alone: I could go on and do the same for the rest of the article. I do not think that website means what you think it means. You may want to actually read it vs. looking at its pretty graphic flair and assuming it does. While in its attempt to be objective, it…

Not trying to be a smarty pants, but just want to point out you may want to watermark 3-4 times over whatever one uploads. I just stitched this watermark free "side by side" comparison together from the previously posted watermarked image via a bit of cutting and pasting. :) And that was without any removal software, which…

Atkins is not nothing but protein and water. Some people may eat practically that way on a Very Low Carb Diet (VLCD)/carnivore diet, or perhaps a very extreme ketogenic diet. Neither is Atkins, either. What the Atkins diet is, is the only diet I know people have misunderstood and mischaracterized for 45 years and counting.

I tried making my own chai tea many years ago. Several different recipes I found around the WWW. With Tazo quality tea, even, back before Starbucks bought them out and they were a small batch specialty tea company. The chai teas made were universally gross to my palate. I very much prefer Starbucks concentrate. Whatever…

If I waited until there were more people than myself to cook for/learn to cook for, I'd still be waiting... LMAO I batch cook. I live far enough from the grocery store I only go every ~7-14 days. Whether reheated from the fridge or the freezer, I eat the same thing with only minor variations for 4-6 days at a time. This is…

I saw Kroger's version the other day. $5 for 12 oz?? When heads, organic even, are $1.99/lb or less? One persons "Yes, please." for the convenience is anothers "No thanks." I've tried it, and I like it, but I can eat an entire head of cauliflower this way and be hungry an hour later. As such, it's not a staple. I will math…

Right off the bat what I noticed in the linked commentary is the huge assumption participants not only knew, but fully comprehended, what a placebo is when told they were being given one. Never assume a layperson understands the same as you do (as an educated scientist) what the medical terminology means. One of the first…

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