“I worry that suddenly just because people can pronounce the ingredients, they’ll start stockpiling snacks like pandemic toilet paper.” Same girl, same.
Today is my 1787th day without factory-made potato chips and I don’t miss it. Took me much longer to quit Cheetos but that’s a different story. 😬
I just hate that “rat in an experiment” feeling when I go to the grocery store (or get online or look at magazines in the checkout lane or watch movies or notice the chem trails…).
LOVE the way you inform and encourage me in all your posts. ❤️
FWIW, I like the reposts because there are some I haven’t read yet and I love them.
Safe travels back to Texas you beautiful bad ass. 🤬🍑😘
I have it on trusted authority that Cheetos are 37.3% Crack Cocaine!... And of the 11 Herbs & Spices in Colonel Sander's Kentucky Fried Chicken, 7 are on the DEA's Controlled Substance List.
Kk, I can attest to the “fact” that Cheetos are indeed 37 thousand percent Crack Cocaine! 😂🤩💥🔥
Recently, I broke my nutrient dense, purr-fect diet. One bag of delicious garbage Crunchy Cheetos at the airport, of course! I enjoyed each one with glee and orange dusted fingers to boot!
On that same trip, I opted for In-N-Out burger and extra crispy fries. Oh Lord! Be still my beating heart 💗 I will be eating those crispy fries again!
The other 350 days of each year I practice the regenerative, pasture raised preach. Homemade bone broth in my daily smoothies. Pasture raised animals and an organic garden that would blow your mind!
I'm a big fan of their burgers... Lettuce, tomato, mayo and extra onion... the fries are of course a side luxury!... The only better fast-food burger that I've ever known is the old Steak-n-Shake... but since they went to kiosk ordering something in the quality changed... go figure that??? I don't know what that's about, but damn the automation!
Steak-n-Shake? I don't know this one, so I guess it isn't in SoCal? FWIW, I will not kiosk order anything, and I will not purchase from any company that will not accept cash!
I am following the rule of paying cash for as much as possible. It serves two purposes for me. One, the PTB have zero business knowing how I spend my damn money. Two, when you pay with cash, you are very much aware of forking over the money, so you think about your purchases before transacting.
Incidentally, I found it a great way to do anything hard; namely, "Do I want to 'celebrate' my success, now, by breaking my promise to myself, after 1,787 days, for one lousy potato chip--And Start Over Tomorrow, with Zero days in a Row, Again--or isn't it actually easier, at this point, to just keep on keepin' on and tack one more day onto the end of that list?"
Of course the advice for "How To" get to 1,787 days in a row sounds tritefully like How To Get Rich by first getting an oil well, but the point is, the truth is, it's much, much easier to get to 1,787 days in a row from already being at 1,786 days... And it's much, much--much--easier to get to TWO days in a row from ONE already than GOING BACK AND HAVING TO START OVER FROM NONE AGAIN.
"Survivors," who've been through it, have this to say to people facing it: "The first days are a bit of hell (but nothing like real Hell), but stay Focused on those Days-in-a-Row. We did. You can. Believe in you." [Writing this for my old, half-buried self who needs to come to my aid and help me resurrect some of that famed willpower of old.]
I fell in with Noom, for one cycle (like Big Pharma, "grooming" to keep you "in" begins Day 1), because I "just knew" weight loss needs encouragement. For all its fol-de-rol (during my tenure it was getting more woke by the day with "true stories" requiring us to know what the subjects' preferred pronouns were). Exit--as Snagglepuss used to say--Stage Right!
I learned two things from the experience: 1. I was right (always love that), the GROUP was very helpful and encouraging to each other (as here), and 2. the answer, intermittent fasting, was in there, although not presented until something like Week 9, and given only an "oh-by-the-way" mention under the assumption that actually encouraging people to do it would be silly "and there were still VOLUMES of 'dieting info' Still to Come!!!"
We are social creatures. When we don't feel society is there supporting us, the way we used to feel that it did, we suffer from that and go our own ways. When we feel it, we have that extra to stick with the program.
Jenna, you vixen you. How could you know of my dream of being fanned by a palm frond waving, raven haired beauty (Okay, it's Mary Ann on Gilligan's Island) whispering “Don’t worry, babe—they’re natural Doritos. They count as vegetables now.”
I laughed when I read "Healthy Choice ice cream." We used to buy those in monster-sized boxes at one of the big box stores. 10 years or so back, we had some on a family trip to the Poconos.
First night there my brother, after many adult beverages, started to eat one. He lost interest almost immediately and threw it into the sink on his way to bed.
Imagine our surprise when we woke the next day to find his "ice cream" treat lying in the sink--fully intact.
I feel fortunate that I grew up with five other siblings at a time when fun was actually FUN! I am 69 years old and quite childlike…as opposed to childish, which has become a pervasive problem among young and old now. A sense of humor was part and parcel of life. The perpetually offended did not exist. My brothers shouting, “I’ll kill you” was the norm and expected among brothers and sisters in a large family. Our entire neighborhood was a playground. Any parent could reprimand another kid that was out of line. No law suits or parent brawls took place. It was a glorious time in that way.
Apropos of orthogonal discussion, my mother periodically bought "Lean Cuisine" for my father instead of "Hungry Man." He would proceed to eat three in a sitting...
Disodium inosinate, disodium guanylate, potassium chloride, and sodium caseinate might be the ingredients I would leave out, but that's just me. Meanwhile "ground turkey sadness" and "parched will to live" both had me LingOL. I make my own tortilla chips in an air fryer from organic tortillas and they are delicious and easy to make.
As a minimalist and living in a small home, I generally avoid adding anything. But that air fryer idea for homemade chips just might be worth giving up prime real estate on my countertop. 😄
We love our air fryer and use it for literally everything… I love not having to fire up the oven and I try to avoid the microwave as much as possible… I am no expert but there are Pinterest boards and Facebook groups and Reddit strings that you can dive down for days lol… I did not want one other thing on my counter and had no intention of installing it permanently but I got tired of dragging it in and out so yes, now it occupies prime real estate.…
Also if you are going to get one, get a big one. Even if you are only cooking for two people, everything you make in there needs a lot of room… I think that is actually why I never used my original one. #UnsolicitedTipOfTheDay
LingOL! Like Heather, I got one as a gift many years ago and I didn’t see the need for it so I regifted it… I just didn’t have the space or the energy. But when I got suspicious of all of the microwave stuff I revisited and have never looked back! It is literally our most used appliance hands down!
I got one as a gift or would never have tried it but I really like it for some things. All I do for tortilla chips is cut tortillas into 6 triangles, brush them with olive oil on both sides and fry for 5-6 min at 400 degrees. Salt to taste. YUM. Enjoy!
Goodness, Cheeto Fingers was how I could tell if hubby had a bag somewhere in his man cave. Depending on my mood, I would hunt them down. Snackwells. I knew them well.
As I walk down the isle of my local (insert name here) grocery store... and I see all of the brightly colored and fancily designed packaging in the snack area... my inner child is saying" Oh Yummy!"... while my adult supervisor is saying "Oh HELL to the NO!"... with the exception of about a once in 6 months splurge on a bag of "Dots" Pretzels... luckily my supervisor wins out every time!... Yay for me!!... The tragedy is that I was an avid Gatorade fan back in the day... Orange was my favorite...I practically lived on the stuff from the 70's to the early 90s... then one day circa 2000 something... I read the label... WTF!?
Everything edible that is ripe, raw, fresh and whole is food. Real food doesn't have ingredients (no need to read the label). Real food *is* the ingredient. And don't forget to chew...
Exactly! If you are buying peas and the label has 10 ingredients, it is not peas. I call that list UI’s. If you see unidentifiable ingredients, beware. There was a chain of Natural Foods stores in CA called REAL FOODS. I loved that name. IF there WAS a store that could claim to have only real food, it would be the size of the old-time markets. The bread aisle in GIANT grocery has virtually no real bread. Whole Foods would not take up an entire block either. I miss the small markets and coffee shops with owners who took pride in their work and established a relationship with the community. Plus they provided starter jobs for young people who had to learn about customer service and employees could be fired without being sued right out of business.
I used to love tortilla chips. Especially tasty at 10 PM when the part of my brain that has common sense had gone to sleep and the other manipulative synapses convinced me that just a few would be fine. Except that “just a few” could fit in a large bowl. Heartburn the following morning was a small price to pay…until it wasn’t.
My reply to the survey "slightly less crappy food is..." is none of the stuff in this article is food to start with. I vote we change the actual definition of food to mean ONLY actual food, and quit trying to claim Oreos and anything Pepsi makes is food. That category of stuff can have a name, but the word "food" isn't part of it. It's not "junk food" it's just "junk."
Having watched in fascinated horror as presumably sane people made scrambled eggs by throwing away the yolk - I can only ask - what current mind meddling propaganda are you falling for now?
fam (who shall remain nameless) went maybe 1.5-2 years tossing the yolks—or worse, buying egg whites in cartons.
I say, eat the food the way God made it, fat, protein, and all.
Thinking back on this now, I see it as a mini-pre-covid marketing ploy. This person has now had 4-5 clot shots. It’s another case of, If a Lab Coat Decrees it, Then it Must Be True.
“May cause anal leakage.
And we ate them anyway.”
No, no we did not. We ran screaming.
Olestra, Olean, oh hells no.
We humans are a funny species. "May" in that warning implies "may not" and when it comes to tasty snacks many are willing to roll the dice.
Actually, when I worked for Frito Lay 10 years ago, they were renamed, bit still in the line, so someone sure was buying them.
“I worry that suddenly just because people can pronounce the ingredients, they’ll start stockpiling snacks like pandemic toilet paper.” Same girl, same.
Today is my 1787th day without factory-made potato chips and I don’t miss it. Took me much longer to quit Cheetos but that’s a different story. 😬
I just hate that “rat in an experiment” feeling when I go to the grocery store (or get online or look at magazines in the checkout lane or watch movies or notice the chem trails…).
LOVE the way you inform and encourage me in all your posts. ❤️
FWIW, I like the reposts because there are some I haven’t read yet and I love them.
Safe travels back to Texas you beautiful bad ass. 🤬🍑😘
I have it on trusted authority that Cheetos are 37.3% Crack Cocaine!... And of the 11 Herbs & Spices in Colonel Sander's Kentucky Fried Chicken, 7 are on the DEA's Controlled Substance List.
I deeply believe the addictive orange coating is nuclear waste
Yep! That's what makes your fingers glow...and give the color its half-life... ;)
That is not a far-fetched conclusion. We are clearly being poisoned by our addictions.
Kk, I can attest to the “fact” that Cheetos are indeed 37 thousand percent Crack Cocaine! 😂🤩💥🔥
Recently, I broke my nutrient dense, purr-fect diet. One bag of delicious garbage Crunchy Cheetos at the airport, of course! I enjoyed each one with glee and orange dusted fingers to boot!
On that same trip, I opted for In-N-Out burger and extra crispy fries. Oh Lord! Be still my beating heart 💗 I will be eating those crispy fries again!
The other 350 days of each year I practice the regenerative, pasture raised preach. Homemade bone broth in my daily smoothies. Pasture raised animals and an organic garden that would blow your mind!
In-N-Out Burgers... Oh MY! :)
It’s all about the extra crispy fries! The burger is okay.
I'm a big fan of their burgers... Lettuce, tomato, mayo and extra onion... the fries are of course a side luxury!... The only better fast-food burger that I've ever known is the old Steak-n-Shake... but since they went to kiosk ordering something in the quality changed... go figure that??? I don't know what that's about, but damn the automation!
Steak-n-Shake? I don't know this one, so I guess it isn't in SoCal? FWIW, I will not kiosk order anything, and I will not purchase from any company that will not accept cash!
I am following the rule of paying cash for as much as possible. It serves two purposes for me. One, the PTB have zero business knowing how I spend my damn money. Two, when you pay with cash, you are very much aware of forking over the money, so you think about your purchases before transacting.
@Anthony- especially the crunchy ones. Oh my word.......
They're my favorites!! When I pass them in the aisle, I have to look the other way to avoid eye contact... the temptation is just too great! ;)
@Anthony- I confess, I have an open bag of them right now...
Tease! LOL!!!
But then again... you might be flirting with me... Are you flirting with me? it's hard to tell without seeing your eyes... :D
He puts in an addictive chemical that makes you crave it fortnightly. (Hat tip to Mike Myers)
@St. Alia- Myers' father was from Scotland. Hence the fortnight (and his Scottish accents).
Wow, Ginny Moore, that's some serious b.-a. willpower your own self! Good on ya!
Incidentally, I found it a great way to do anything hard; namely, "Do I want to 'celebrate' my success, now, by breaking my promise to myself, after 1,787 days, for one lousy potato chip--And Start Over Tomorrow, with Zero days in a Row, Again--or isn't it actually easier, at this point, to just keep on keepin' on and tack one more day onto the end of that list?"
Of course the advice for "How To" get to 1,787 days in a row sounds tritefully like How To Get Rich by first getting an oil well, but the point is, the truth is, it's much, much easier to get to 1,787 days in a row from already being at 1,786 days... And it's much, much--much--easier to get to TWO days in a row from ONE already than GOING BACK AND HAVING TO START OVER FROM NONE AGAIN.
"Survivors," who've been through it, have this to say to people facing it: "The first days are a bit of hell (but nothing like real Hell), but stay Focused on those Days-in-a-Row. We did. You can. Believe in you." [Writing this for my old, half-buried self who needs to come to my aid and help me resurrect some of that famed willpower of old.]
David, you could be a terrific guru at a drug rehab. I’m being serious.
KC, I wonder...
I fell in with Noom, for one cycle (like Big Pharma, "grooming" to keep you "in" begins Day 1), because I "just knew" weight loss needs encouragement. For all its fol-de-rol (during my tenure it was getting more woke by the day with "true stories" requiring us to know what the subjects' preferred pronouns were). Exit--as Snagglepuss used to say--Stage Right!
I learned two things from the experience: 1. I was right (always love that), the GROUP was very helpful and encouraging to each other (as here), and 2. the answer, intermittent fasting, was in there, although not presented until something like Week 9, and given only an "oh-by-the-way" mention under the assumption that actually encouraging people to do it would be silly "and there were still VOLUMES of 'dieting info' Still to Come!!!"
We are social creatures. When we don't feel society is there supporting us, the way we used to feel that it did, we suffer from that and go our own ways. When we feel it, we have that extra to stick with the program.
Does this mean you've mastered the home cooked chip?
Jenna, you vixen you. How could you know of my dream of being fanned by a palm frond waving, raven haired beauty (Okay, it's Mary Ann on Gilligan's Island) whispering “Don’t worry, babe—they’re natural Doritos. They count as vegetables now.”
And it would be TRUE!!
@Justin- HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
“Ground turkey sadness”. Hilarious! I’m glad you reran this! This ran during my “pre-Jenna” period! 🙂
I laughed when I read "Healthy Choice ice cream." We used to buy those in monster-sized boxes at one of the big box stores. 10 years or so back, we had some on a family trip to the Poconos.
First night there my brother, after many adult beverages, started to eat one. He lost interest almost immediately and threw it into the sink on his way to bed.
Imagine our surprise when we woke the next day to find his "ice cream" treat lying in the sink--fully intact.
I haven't had one since.
Wow! Not melted at all??
Not that we could tell. And we looked closely, with a kind of horrified fascination.
😂 I am picturing hungover guys staring into the sink…
You nailed it.
Reminds me of the non decomposing burger...
https://youtu.be/9DogejLMjjU?si=bxSoV862a66wyNdI
I have a package of English muffins with an expiration date of last August that I just found. And it still looks fresh! I tried it.. Slightly dry.
I'm going to chuck it in the compost bin.
The worms won't know what hit 'em.
That is hilarious!!! 😂
Ugh. That turns my stomach. I’m sure I ate that in the past 😬
I am still laughing about “we looked closely, with a kind of horrified fascination.” What a brilliant descriptive! 😂
I feel fortunate that I grew up with five other siblings at a time when fun was actually FUN! I am 69 years old and quite childlike…as opposed to childish, which has become a pervasive problem among young and old now. A sense of humor was part and parcel of life. The perpetually offended did not exist. My brothers shouting, “I’ll kill you” was the norm and expected among brothers and sisters in a large family. Our entire neighborhood was a playground. Any parent could reprimand another kid that was out of line. No law suits or parent brawls took place. It was a glorious time in that way.
😳😳😳 Really?
Apropos of orthogonal discussion, my mother periodically bought "Lean Cuisine" for my father instead of "Hungry Man." He would proceed to eat three in a sitting...
@J- HAHAHAHAHAHA!
Disodium inosinate, disodium guanylate, potassium chloride, and sodium caseinate might be the ingredients I would leave out, but that's just me. Meanwhile "ground turkey sadness" and "parched will to live" both had me LingOL. I make my own tortilla chips in an air fryer from organic tortillas and they are delicious and easy to make.
As a minimalist and living in a small home, I generally avoid adding anything. But that air fryer idea for homemade chips just might be worth giving up prime real estate on my countertop. 😄
We love our air fryer and use it for literally everything… I love not having to fire up the oven and I try to avoid the microwave as much as possible… I am no expert but there are Pinterest boards and Facebook groups and Reddit strings that you can dive down for days lol… I did not want one other thing on my counter and had no intention of installing it permanently but I got tired of dragging it in and out so yes, now it occupies prime real estate.…
By the way, I have no microwave, no dishwasher, no garbage disposal or ice maker. And yes, I do live in a lovely civilized suburb of Philly. 😂
Thank you Jenna! You and Heather just might have pushed me over the edge…😂
Also if you are going to get one, get a big one. Even if you are only cooking for two people, everything you make in there needs a lot of room… I think that is actually why I never used my original one. #UnsolicitedTipOfTheDay
YOUR unsolicited tips are welcome. Thank you, Jenna! 😂
LingOL! Like Heather, I got one as a gift many years ago and I didn’t see the need for it so I regifted it… I just didn’t have the space or the energy. But when I got suspicious of all of the microwave stuff I revisited and have never looked back! It is literally our most used appliance hands down!
I got one as a gift or would never have tried it but I really like it for some things. All I do for tortilla chips is cut tortillas into 6 triangles, brush them with olive oil on both sides and fry for 5-6 min at 400 degrees. Salt to taste. YUM. Enjoy!
Thank you! Any suggestions on the air fryer brand you like?
Mine is some off brand from China I think. Cosori. It's pretty small too. Not an expert by any means though. 😂
Okay thanks Heather!
Do I need your recipe?
Goodness, Cheeto Fingers was how I could tell if hubby had a bag somewhere in his man cave. Depending on my mood, I would hunt them down. Snackwells. I knew them well.
@Janet- to die for
😂😂😂
"Then there’s the new 'NKD' (yes, really) line of Doritos and Cheetos, stripped of artificial dyes and flavors."
Hmm...it's either "naked" or "no known diseases...." or perhaps "North Korean defector." YMMV.
Or could be NUKED!
True. "Seems healthy, but watch what it does to your digestive system...."
As I walk down the isle of my local (insert name here) grocery store... and I see all of the brightly colored and fancily designed packaging in the snack area... my inner child is saying" Oh Yummy!"... while my adult supervisor is saying "Oh HELL to the NO!"... with the exception of about a once in 6 months splurge on a bag of "Dots" Pretzels... luckily my supervisor wins out every time!... Yay for me!!... The tragedy is that I was an avid Gatorade fan back in the day... Orange was my favorite...I practically lived on the stuff from the 70's to the early 90s... then one day circa 2000 something... I read the label... WTF!?
Just so snarky! Loved this one. All that so-called healthy crap long forgotten. Thanks for the memories. It was all so crappy.
If you want a shocking memory, look at a film or TV series from the 70's.
Look at how THIN everyone is!
yes, it’s amazing as we all were busy living and loving life.
Everything edible that is ripe, raw, fresh and whole is food. Real food doesn't have ingredients (no need to read the label). Real food *is* the ingredient. And don't forget to chew...
Exactly! If you are buying peas and the label has 10 ingredients, it is not peas. I call that list UI’s. If you see unidentifiable ingredients, beware. There was a chain of Natural Foods stores in CA called REAL FOODS. I loved that name. IF there WAS a store that could claim to have only real food, it would be the size of the old-time markets. The bread aisle in GIANT grocery has virtually no real bread. Whole Foods would not take up an entire block either. I miss the small markets and coffee shops with owners who took pride in their work and established a relationship with the community. Plus they provided starter jobs for young people who had to learn about customer service and employees could be fired without being sued right out of business.
Eat real food! It really is that simple. And occasionally, very occasionally cheat on cheatos (-:. And stop drinking soda, it's poison.
@David- we haven't had pop in a long time. We found the flavored sparkling water- no additives, just carbonated water- and are happy with that.
I brew green tea and have that in a pitcher. Keeps hubs off soda.
If you like mint, adding a bag into your steep for iced green tea is The Thing. So good as a summer refreshment.
I used to love tortilla chips. Especially tasty at 10 PM when the part of my brain that has common sense had gone to sleep and the other manipulative synapses convinced me that just a few would be fine. Except that “just a few” could fit in a large bowl. Heartburn the following morning was a small price to pay…until it wasn’t.
My reply to the survey "slightly less crappy food is..." is none of the stuff in this article is food to start with. I vote we change the actual definition of food to mean ONLY actual food, and quit trying to claim Oreos and anything Pepsi makes is food. That category of stuff can have a name, but the word "food" isn't part of it. It's not "junk food" it's just "junk."
Having watched in fascinated horror as presumably sane people made scrambled eggs by throwing away the yolk - I can only ask - what current mind meddling propaganda are you falling for now?
Ps I ask myself that regularly
Someone in my
fam (who shall remain nameless) went maybe 1.5-2 years tossing the yolks—or worse, buying egg whites in cartons.
I say, eat the food the way God made it, fat, protein, and all.
Thinking back on this now, I see it as a mini-pre-covid marketing ploy. This person has now had 4-5 clot shots. It’s another case of, If a Lab Coat Decrees it, Then it Must Be True.
I hear that Texas is seeking "additives" from the snack-food industry to make their lethal injections sweeter and in an array of inviting colors.
@David- so twisted. Well done!!! I nearly died laughing.