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Eating Out? Locals are as bad as the chains!
I see many on here (rightly) criticising chain restaurants, pubs and fast food outlets for their poor attitudes towards food safety, quality of ingredients and abysmal nutritional content.
Has anyone stopped to consider that independent and local outlets are just as bad? Try asking a local restaurant the nutritional content of their dishes, you won't get an answer. When you next get a sandwich from a sandwich shop, ask them how much salt or fat is in it, they won't know. The only answer and way we can move forward is to boycott local establishments until they begin serving food we can eat, and that will not cause long term health problems. Eating at home is cheaper, easier, healthier, more nutritious, tastier and far more fun! |
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I still dont believe you can even cook.
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Eating at home is cheaper, easier, healthier, more nutritious, tastier and far more fun!
I await the OP's recipes with baited breath
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Why are people so obsessed with salt and fat? Both are good for you and you need them for the human body to function. Take salt out of your diet and you are likely to get diarrohea and also become dehydrated.
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I still dont believe you can even cook.
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Why are people so obsessed with salt and fat? Both are good for you and you need them for the human body to function. Take salt out of your diet and you are likely to get diarrohea and also become dehydrated.
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Yawn, here we go again.
Mantey - have you ever heard of the 80:20 rule? It's ok to let your hair down occasionally and enjoy something that you haven't cooked yourself. |
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Because of my job I have to travel - which means I often have to eat away from home.
The preferred solution in the UK, for me, is the pub/restaurants associated with Premier Inns - e.g. Beefeater or Table Table. It would be silly for me to 'boycott' anyone - I need to eat while I'm away - I've done MacDonalds in Norway simply because I know what I'll get... While I'm at home, I can be more choosey - which is nice, but shouldn't restrict the choices I make in a larger context?? |
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:yawn:
Please tell me how to make my own crisps. You inspired me earlier OP.
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Please tell me how to make my own crisps. You inspired me earlier OP. ![]() ![]() Of course I would only be able to do this producing very fattening crisps myself
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Why are people so obsessed with salt and fat? Both are good for you and you need them for the human body to function. Take salt out of your diet and you are likely to get diarrohea and also become dehydrated.
While we need a residual amount of salt, which is more than covered naturally in foods, added salt is not good for you. I never cook with salt and haven't done for about 20 years. I can assure you I never get diarrhoea and dehydrated. Fats I agree with you a lot more on this one. Society seems have developed an unhealthy obsession with everything must be fat free fat free fat free and then wonder why they are still fat and unhealthy after gorging on stodgy carbs and refined sugary foods and drinks. Obviosuly too much saturated fat is not good for you, but veg, nut and oils are good for you. |
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When we ran our "local" producing and selling lots of good food I could tell you everything that was in it. I bought the fresh produce, cooked it and served it.
The choice was yours - steak and kidney pie or low fat vegetarian curry - calorie counted. Could tell you the calorie and fat content of the food I made and could always look on the box for bought in things like sausages. |
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If you're going to troll at least be good at it.
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I know. I was finding them amusing and couldn't decide if they were an over-zealous food lover or a sad git living in a bedsit with no mates trying to create a persona on here that was 'aspirational' when the truth was that with only a gas ring, a microwave and a kettle, they are condemned to a diet of pot noodle and tinned soup.
Sadly, they've overplayed their hand now and it's become tedious. |
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I see many on here (rightly) criticising chain restaurants, pubs and fast food outlets for their poor attitudes towards food safety, quality of ingredients and abysmal nutritional content.
Has anyone stopped to consider that independent and local outlets are just as bad? Try asking a local restaurant the nutritional content of their dishes, you won't get an answer. When you next get a sandwich from a sandwich shop, ask them how much salt or fat is in it, they won't know. The only answer and way we can move forward is to boycott local establishments until they begin serving food we can eat, and that will not cause long term health problems. Eating at home is cheaper, easier, healthier, more nutritious, tastier and far more fun!
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No offense but isn't it really easy to make your own crisps
![]() Of course I would only be able to do this producing very fattening crisps myself ![]() But I will continue to also eat Walkers. Coz I love 'em! ![]() Quote:
If you're going to troll at least be good at it.
Nah, what fun would that be?
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So you never, ever, ever eat out do you OP?
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I guarantee that if the OP said they made an authentic bolognaise sauce that took them 24 hours to make, if you asked for a recipe - they would reply 'ask around' for a recipe, source your own veal, etc, etc, blady bla, ad infinitum.....BORING!
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Come on then Mantey, give us some of your tried and tested cook at home, cheap, low fat recipes. The Food and Drink forum posters are all about swaping ideas and many are looking for these kinds of meals.
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I'm off for my pub lunch anyhoo - which could, quite possibly be part of, shock horror - A CHAIN!!!
![]() ![]() ![]() and I won't ask for a list of the ingredients or the nutritional content of every dish - I'll just order what I fancy! What a rebel eh!
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I'm off for my pub lunch anyhoo - which could, quite possibly be part of, shock horror - A CHAIN!!!
![]() ![]() ![]() and I won't ask for a list of the ingredients or the nutritional content of every dish - I'll just order what I fancy! What a rebel eh! ![]() ![]() ![]() Enjoy you lunch.
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I'm off for my pub lunch anyhoo - which could, quite possibly be part of, shock horror - A CHAIN!!!
![]() ![]() ![]() and I won't ask for a list of the ingredients or the nutritional content of every dish - I'll just order what I fancy! What a rebel eh! ![]() |
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I'm all for eating healthily but stressing out about it is just as likely to lead to an early death.
Part of living is eating out, it's sociable and relaxing which is good for the health and creates a much better person than someone stuck alone in their kitchen for hours 7 days a week. |
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Eating out in a restaurant is not meant to be either a nutritional or mathematical exercise. A night out at an expensive restaurant is a sensual activity. It is about taste, texture and satisfaction. If you want to count calories or worry about saturated fats stay at home with your miserable approach to eating and nibble a lentil salad.
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I'm off for my pub lunch anyhoo - which could, quite possibly be part of, shock horror - A CHAIN!!!
![]() ![]() ![]() and I won't ask for a list of the ingredients or the nutritional content of every dish - I'll just order what I fancy! What a rebel eh! ![]()
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