http://www.robscape.com/gifs/products/smart-puffs.jpg
― elmo argonaut, Wednesday, 13 June 2007 18:30 (seventeen years ago) link
any soy product that would be considered 'junky' if made with real milk - chocolate soy milk, soy ice cream, etc.
ANYTHING @ FOODSWINGS!!!!
― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Wednesday, 13 June 2007 18:31 (seventeen years ago) link
see also: http://www.goodhealthnaturalfoods.com/pictures/stixpg/Vstixlg.jpg xpost
― tehresa, Wednesday, 13 June 2007 18:32 (seventeen years ago) link
do you really think anyone goes to foodswings thinking they're about to eat healthy?
― tehresa, Wednesday, 13 June 2007 18:33 (seventeen years ago) link
also, shasta OTM about most energy / protein bars -- you think you are eating smart when it's really a 500 calorie sneak attack
― elmo argonaut, Wednesday, 13 June 2007 18:33 (seventeen years ago) link
foodswings is fucking horrible! i am convinced that vegans just hate food and thus try to make it as unappetizing as possible.
― bell_labs, Wednesday, 13 June 2007 18:34 (seventeen years ago) link
FIXED
― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Wednesday, 13 June 2007 18:35 (seventeen years ago) link
hahaha
― tehresa, Wednesday, 13 June 2007 18:37 (seventeen years ago) link
the vegans i know hate foodswings, too. one told me in all seriousness that he'd rather have a burger than go there.
― lauren, Wednesday, 13 June 2007 18:39 (seventeen years ago) link
Foodswings = missed connection central
― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Wednesday, 13 June 2007 18:41 (seventeen years ago) link
I wager that your friends don't define themselves by their dietary and bicycle asceticism.
― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Wednesday, 13 June 2007 18:42 (seventeen years ago) link
The health food aisle in the grocery store is like 75% organic potato chips & cookies.
― Jordan, Wednesday, 13 June 2007 18:42 (seventeen years ago) link
The Frappucino. Seems like it would be obvious - but I see so many women drinkin them that look like they would never in a million years order a chocolate milkshake
― Hurting 2, Wednesday, 13 June 2007 18:42 (seventeen years ago) link
ah, see jordan, most stores have renamed it the "natural foods" aisle so they can't be accused of calling it health food when it's not healthy.
― tehresa, Wednesday, 13 June 2007 18:43 (seventeen years ago) link
i think i am guilty of this because i had SOY mac & cheese for lunch today??
― elmo argonaut, Wednesday, 13 June 2007 18:44 (seventeen years ago) link
elmo, are you lactose intolerant? if so it's ok.
― bell_labs, Wednesday, 13 June 2007 18:45 (seventeen years ago) link
I'm trying to avoid carb loading all the time. I met a dude who looked like a thin Irmin Schmidt from Can Free Conecert who told me that you should always be hungry.
― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Wednesday, 13 June 2007 18:45 (seventeen years ago) link
Jamba Juice is absurd. Just because it's sort of healthy to drink a six ounce glass of juice doesn't mean it's healthy to drink five of them mixed with sherbert in one sitting.
― Hurting 2, Wednesday, 13 June 2007 18:46 (seventeen years ago) link
bell labs, i am not but i am trying to cut down on animal fats (except bacon)
― elmo argonaut, Wednesday, 13 June 2007 18:47 (seventeen years ago) link
i am guilty of the soy mac and also tofutti cuties are my secret shame.
― bell_labs, Wednesday, 13 June 2007 18:48 (seventeen years ago) link
tofutti cuties 8080
― elmo argonaut, Wednesday, 13 June 2007 18:48 (seventeen years ago) link
yeah tofutti cuties are seriously addicting...
― tehresa, Wednesday, 13 June 2007 18:48 (seventeen years ago) link
but honestly i know they're not healthy and do not eat them to try and fool myself, regular ice cream just makes stomach sad.
― tehresa, Wednesday, 13 June 2007 18:49 (seventeen years ago) link
i crave the soy cheese pizza from viva herbal on 2nd avenue.
― lauren, Wednesday, 13 June 2007 18:51 (seventeen years ago) link
how eat something called tofutti?
― jhøshea, Wednesday, 13 June 2007 18:52 (seventeen years ago) link
tofutti p-orridge?
― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Wednesday, 13 June 2007 18:53 (seventeen years ago) link
lol
― bell_labs, Wednesday, 13 June 2007 18:53 (seventeen years ago) link
weird i was xplaining how bad things like bocca burgers and tofu pups are for you last night
re: s shastas powerbar truths!: a few xcellent lines in nick toshe's sushi story in vanity fair last month about the silliness that is powerbars and the not healthyness of "sushi" in general (in you kids didn't read that story go somewhere and do it....starts a bit rough but its great)
my lady freind pointed out how hillarious genius tofurkey is....faux turkey...
― bb, Wednesday, 13 June 2007 18:54 (seventeen years ago) link
Are bocca burgers THAT bad? I know they must be when I cook them with tons of olive oil
― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Wednesday, 13 June 2007 18:55 (seventeen years ago) link
"healthy" fat-kid gas-station foods imply more self-loathing than regular fat-kid gas-station foods, true / false?
http://www.reallynatural.com/archives/pictures/FLnatcheetos-thumb.jpg
― elmo argonaut, Wednesday, 13 June 2007 18:55 (seventeen years ago) link
i say true. seriously, you're eating cheetos! who are you kidding?!
― tehresa, Wednesday, 13 June 2007 18:56 (seventeen years ago) link
I've never seen those!
― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Wednesday, 13 June 2007 18:56 (seventeen years ago) link
tofurkey just makes me think of turducken, which i am much more interested in trying.
― bell_labs, Wednesday, 13 June 2007 18:56 (seventeen years ago) link
yes!!!!
― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Wednesday, 13 June 2007 18:57 (seventeen years ago) link
boca burgers is owned by philip morris
― and what, Wednesday, 13 June 2007 18:58 (seventeen years ago) link
Re frappucino: they're not that much like milkshakes in that they're made with crushed ice instead of blended ice cream. Which is why they're basically not creamy, it's just frozen water and not fat for that lovely lovely mouth-feel.
― Laurel, Wednesday, 13 June 2007 19:00 (seventeen years ago) link
they have a dairy mix as a base, i believe.
― lauren, Wednesday, 13 June 2007 19:01 (seventeen years ago) link
certain foods being not as healthy as advertised is really not shocking at all! and honestly it probably is better for you to eat the all-natural cheetos just to avoid preservatives & dubious cheese color.
― elmo argonaut, Wednesday, 13 June 2007 19:01 (seventeen years ago) link
Hmmm that could be. I think I've never had one...? But those blenders they put in are deffo made for ice, that shit is hardcore.
― Laurel, Wednesday, 13 June 2007 19:02 (seventeen years ago) link
O_o @ cosmos
― strongohulkington, Wednesday, 13 June 2007 19:02 (seventeen years ago) link
probably a good place to re-link to that NYT article that was discussed a while back
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/28/magazine/28nutritionism.t.html?ei=5088&en=7c85a1c254546157&ex=1327640400&pagewanted=all
― elmo argonaut, Wednesday, 13 June 2007 19:03 (seventeen years ago) link
SMARTFOOD
― s1ocki, Wednesday, 13 June 2007 19:16 (seventeen years ago) link
the thing is bocca burgers are just full of odd processed stuff and wheat gluten and so on...one occasionally is fine, but people that think theyre being healthy or ethical are deluding themselves. their junk food and poor substitute for meat...
turducken is fantastic...but really a bit much...its fun and tastey, but kind of a waste. you really would be better off with 4 seperate small portions of well cooked birds.
― bb, Wednesday, 13 June 2007 19:22 (seventeen years ago) link
what's wrong with gluten? i mean, provided you don't have celiac disease
― elmo argonaut, Wednesday, 13 June 2007 19:28 (seventeen years ago) link
nothing really wrong there, just not "good" for you. our bodies don't love wheat to begin with but, (like anything) in moderation it won't come near hurting you..
i worked in a veggie freindly kitchen for a while...the problem with this stuff is that you get people that "want" to be "vegetarian" but dont do the work to find out how to eat that way or change their lifestyle....they think they can just eat these meat substitutes and its good for them....the same people wouldnt eat hotdogs for every meal, but when they see "morningstar farms" on the box they think theyre doing something different and/or decent.
― bb, Wednesday, 13 June 2007 19:35 (seventeen years ago) link
Isn't it generally bad for :
― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Wednesday, 13 June 2007 19:36 (seventeen years ago) link
-- and what, Wednesday, June 13, 2007 6:58 PM (2 hours ago)
It's called Altria and they even own your poop.
― Hurting 2, Wednesday, 13 June 2007 21:30 (seventeen years ago) link
Actually, I forgot that the Kraft Foods division was spun off, so your poop may be under a separate corporate entity now.
― Hurting 2, Wednesday, 13 June 2007 21:32 (seventeen years ago) link
ben otm re: veggies. my sister and her fiance are very serious about eating well-balanced meals but for every couple like that, there are probably 10+ people who eat too many carbs/cheese/etc. on a daily basis just because they are easily accessible foods without meat. i definitely ran into this problem in college when my dorm offered a "vegetarian" choice at every meal, but that choice was usually cheese lasagna, eggplant parm, or something equally as unhealthy and lacking in balanced nutrition. they had a salad bar, too, but i think their veggies were coated in some kind of preservative or pesticide because i could not eat the lettuce without being ill afterwards :-\
― tehresa, Wednesday, 13 June 2007 21:36 (seventeen years ago) link
Those baked cheetos are actully pretty good but they seriously disappoint in the leave-your-fingers-covered-in-awesomeness department.
― nickalicious, Wednesday, 13 June 2007 21:37 (seventeen years ago) link
"charge three prices for it." is nearly on some "first two coasts" shit.
― how's life, Friday, 16 May 2014 10:49 (ten years ago) link
lol $3 try like $8, xp
― Doritos Loco Parentis (Hurting 2), Friday, 16 May 2014 15:23 (ten years ago) link
http://blueprintcleanse.com/
― Doritos Loco Parentis (Hurting 2), Friday, 16 May 2014 15:24 (ten years ago) link
yeah but it drains your butt
― famous instagram God (waterface), Friday, 16 May 2014 15:24 (ten years ago) link
Cashew&Vanilla&Cinnamon&Agave.
― 龜, Friday, 16 May 2014 15:25 (ten years ago) link
hate to say it, but, clif and luna bars, right? i mean, the shit is candy bars
― goole, Friday, 16 May 2014 15:33 (ten years ago) link
oh totally. i quite a vicious clif bar habit a couple years back.
― call all destroyer, Friday, 16 May 2014 15:46 (ten years ago) link
for sure, as far as sugar content goes. but tbf they usually have more fiber, protein, and other stuff that a candy bar wouldn't.
― marcos, Friday, 16 May 2014 15:53 (ten years ago) link
power bars too?
― markers, Friday, 16 May 2014 15:54 (ten years ago) link
i like the peanut butter ones
― 龜, Friday, May 16, 2014 11:25 AM (28 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I WANTED THAT ONE SO BAD a few weeks back because i like all those things but then I saw it was $8 and I just couldn't.
Think Thin bars don't have any sugar and are OK but not as tasty as Lara bars though though are probably more whole.
― Airwrecka Bliptrap Blapmantis (ENBB), Friday, 16 May 2014 16:00 (ten years ago) link
yea $8 is absurd. shit. you can get an entire falafel sandwich for $8, and that's still a ripoff. you can get a falafel for $2.50 someplaces.
― marcos, Friday, 16 May 2014 16:05 (ten years ago) link
eight seltzers.
― markers, Friday, 16 May 2014 16:06 (ten years ago) link
or seven if there's tax.
clif bars are designed for when you're burning hella calories & packing light
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Friday, 16 May 2014 16:55 (ten years ago) link
I take Clif bars along when I am wilderness trekking, but Snickers work almost as well, so the candy bar analogy isn't far off the mark.
― king of chin-stroking banality (Aimless), Friday, 16 May 2014 17:01 (ten years ago) link
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Friday, May 16, 2014 11:55 AM (48 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
my morning commute is pretty gnar
― goole, Friday, 16 May 2014 17:45 (ten years ago) link
tho i flipped to lara bars recently. the key lime ones are goddesslike.
I've been weaning myself off snack bars and it's definitely helping me lose weight.
― Doritos Loco Parentis (Hurting 2), Friday, 16 May 2014 18:21 (ten years ago) link
man i want a whole mess of lara bars right now, shiyet
― smooth hymnal (m bison), Saturday, 17 May 2014 02:54 (ten years ago) link
aimless is no thread safe from your chin stroking banality
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Thursday, May 15, 2014 10:16 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
yeah man you gotta juice your vegetables and eat your fruits whole! fruit juice is mostly just sugar without any of the fibers. the fibers are the good stuff, that's what your body really wants!
― put that brick @ u face (een), Saturday, 17 May 2014 03:06 (ten years ago) link
- Aimless
― put that brick @ u face (een), Saturday, 17 May 2014 03:07 (ten years ago) link
"Any highly processed snack food", no loaded words there nope
― brimstead, Saturday, 17 May 2014 03:10 (ten years ago) link
also, the sugar content in them comes from more benign sources than hfcs.
― fit and working again, Saturday, 17 May 2014 03:17 (ten years ago) link
You got me all wrong, brimstead. I always eat my cabbage in the form of triangular chip.
― king of chin-stroking banality (Aimless), Saturday, 17 May 2014 03:59 (ten years ago) link
you're missing out, cabbage is a wonderful even as accessorial ruffage.
― brimstead, Saturday, 17 May 2014 04:27 (ten years ago) link
raw juice is good even though it is high sugar and low fiber because of enzymes and phytochemicals. smoothies are better because you retain the fiber. in general, you shouldn't be scared of the sugar in raw fruit for the most part unless you are eating it in extreme quantities.
― Treeship, Saturday, 17 May 2014 04:39 (ten years ago) link
i think the worst offender of junk food that appeals to whole foods shoppers is artisanal soda, like virgil's. soda is evil imho.
― Treeship, Saturday, 17 May 2014 04:44 (ten years ago) link
This thread inspired me to buy some Chia seed tortilla chips yesterday.
― how's life, Saturday, 17 May 2014 10:26 (ten years ago) link
i've had virgils, aint nothing evil about that sweet sweet root beer
― smooth hymnal (m bison), Saturday, 17 May 2014 12:38 (ten years ago) link
reed's ginger beer is my weakness
― clouds, Monday, 19 May 2014 14:50 (ten years ago) link
i used to eat these a lot and then stopped and then my grocery store started stocking them for 1.19 so i bought six and i have eaten three todayhttp://www.primalspiritfoods.com/images/products/PrimalStrips/flavor_group_large_mesquite_lime.jpg75 calories apiece! very tasty! maybe high in sodium is the only thinghttp://www.primalspiritfoods.com/products_flavor_details.php#MesquiteLime
― Meta Forksclove-Liebeskind (forksclovetofu), Friday, 18 September 2015 19:27 (nine years ago) link
I gave my three-year-old a luna bar and she really liked it = it is a candy bar
― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Friday, 18 September 2015 19:32 (nine years ago) link
I have been eating zone perfect bars after workouts though because I am buying into that whole protein+carbs immediately after working out thing, plus I kind of feel like I need a little sugar boost when I'm beat from a workout, plus I read that giving yourself a little sweet after a workout is a good way to help build an exercise habit (because it's a "reward" in a pavlovian sense). Also they are cheap at Costco.
So far the "reward" part I guess is working because I've hit the gym 3x week every week for four months straight.
― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Friday, 18 September 2015 19:34 (nine years ago) link
https://casasanchezsf.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/totopos-casa-sanchez-sf.jpg
― brimstead, Friday, 18 September 2015 22:19 (nine years ago) link
literally my entire diet belongs in this thread, i have put on like 30 pounds in the last couple of years, envy my life
― zoso def (m bison), Saturday, 19 September 2015 02:52 (nine years ago) link
“I don’t think much has changed in the energy bar landscape—just more crowded!” writes Eskin, who still works as a food writer for the Tribune and other outlets. “The culture of the time focused on athletes—who presumably ‘needed’ quick, portable nutrition—and everyone else who wanted to seem just as buff and busy.”
Long read on the rise of the power/protein bar:
https://www.topic.com/hard-to-swallow
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Tuesday, 9 July 2019 15:54 (five years ago) link
This thread has everything.
― Yerac, Tuesday, 9 July 2019 16:20 (five years ago) link
https://thumbor.thedailymeal.com/Sk8bL8_na9rnPhp2b9yc_HivQtk=/870x565/https://www.thedailymeal.com/sites/default/files/story/2016/RX-Bar%20Title%20Image.jpg
― omar little, Tuesday, 9 July 2019 16:27 (five years ago) link
https://i0.wp.com/www.eatthis.com/wp-content/uploads//media/images/ext/918357171/kind-bars.jpg?fit=500%2C366&ssl=1
― omar little, Tuesday, 9 July 2019 16:29 (five years ago) link
here's a good example I discovered recently
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51E71WaNp-L._SX522_.jpg
Just 10g of protein and 300 calories, with likely less than half of that protein even coming from "crickets." $36 for 12 on Amazon.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Tuesday, 9 July 2019 17:12 (five years ago) link
Admittedly I am probably way too reliant on Kirkland protein bars, premier protein shakes, and various brands of vegetable protein powder for nutrition. Sometimes I wonder if it does me any good at all.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Tuesday, 9 July 2019 17:13 (five years ago) link
I don't really think people eat Beyond burgers types of things to be healthier? I could be wrong. I still haven't been able to try them. Boca burgers have always sucked so bad otm all above.
― Yerac, Tuesday, 9 July 2019 17:38 (five years ago) link
That piece on protein bars is depressing. It's Lunchables for adults. I thought the era for them ended in the early part of this decade. I was obv wrong. The last time I bought one was when I was going 5 day hiking/camping and needed to carry all my food in.
― Yerac, Tuesday, 9 July 2019 17:44 (five years ago) link
Can you still get those Powerbars that were like a thin slabs of tar?
― brimstead, Tuesday, 9 July 2019 20:28 (five years ago) link
I’m crazy about these, I don’t know if they count, they’re not made for scarfing/wolfinghttps://roweofvenice.com/collections/snacks/products/espresso
― brimstead, Thursday, 21 January 2021 23:53 (three years ago) link
um did you mean to post that on the Naked Juice thread
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Friday, 22 January 2021 03:27 (three years ago) link