I need to eat as many of these as possible starting RIGHT NOW!
Seriously: this is a great list of things to eat for those of us who give at most 1/3 of a rat's behind about healthy eating! I'm 65 and I'm gonna go out with a bang, or possibly some really obnoxious gas.
(1/3 of a rat's behind = that [small] salad I ate a couple days ago. I think I ate it. Some of it, maybe.)
BYU Boner Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Okay, I'll plan a holiday feast for my family > centered around some kale studded oatmeal.
Actually...(although not as a holiday dish), kale studded oats might work!!
I would take that with a grain of salt, since if you typically eat healthy the rest of the year, Christmas is the time to indulge in things you don't normally have.
Too much sugar is definitely bad. But cheese topped potatoes!? Full fat dairy is still being maligned. Our ancestors ate it and heart disease was rare. It's hydrogenated oils( trans fats), like hardened butter substitutes such as oleo, that clog our arteries.
Funny thing, how they consistently list the evil ingredients with qualifiers such as "could contain" or "might equal". Yeah, folks, absolutely any food on earth "could contain" enough rich stuff that it "might equal" something that sounds scary.
This is such deliberately alarmist writing, giving totals for an entire dessert here, rather than a single, reasonable portion; comparing dark turkey with skin to white meat without skin, as if there was no way to eat the dark meat without skin; and implying that all of the yummy ingredients are horribly dangerous, when most folks actually survive a reasonable intake of most of them quite well.
Thanks, I'll eat sensible portions of things that I like over the holidays. And continue my generally healthy diet around that little splurge. And hold the hyperbole, exaggeration, and fear mongering.
I'm still trying to figure out who the heck uses condensed milk in a trifle or why a shepherd's pie is loaded with sodium when I add no salt at all to mine.
Maybe a US trifle is very different to the British ( or Aussie ) one. You can cut down on the sugar by using a low cal jelly ( jello) for starters.
We'll be eating normal Christmas fare come the big day.
They carefully listed all of the very worst possible situations, as if they were the normal conditions, and then exaggerated the risks (many of which are debatable) as much as they could.
It certainly doesn't make me want to trust their advice on anything.
This list is pretty ridiculous barring any medical issues. You can eat and indulge once in a while as long as you eat healthily and exercise regularly as a rule. If you really want to make things a little lighter, that's fine, too.
Well--all this is good news for me! I won't have to cook! I'll just show my family this link, and tell them I'm guarding their health.
Some of those recipes are a lot of work. Not exercise-type, active work, but tedious standing-and-bending, boring, marathon work. All I want to do after cooking a huge meal is just sit down. I try to get my energy back, by eating all the leftovers for the next few days.
These meals are fattening, because preparing them takes away a person's fun time, ski time, Christmas shopping-and-browsing time, meeting friends for coffee time (few of us can afford Starbuck's anyway), playing with the grandchildren.
My grandchildren eat oatmeal and kale (but not together), and that's funny! They won't eat plumb pudding, fruitcake, pecan pie, much less spinach and feta turkey dressing or goat cheese and white bean fondu.
Who eats a whole chocolate orange?
I totally identify with that pumpkin pie story! Feeling "deprived" is not very merry.