Cooking

[Miss Spaulding]

Everyone who doesn't care or doesn't believe how foods effect health has a story about how they knew the dude who was "Mr. Organic", ate Kale and Carrots every day, and died at 34.

Or the Grandparent who ate nothing but pork fat and cheddar but stayed slim and healthy all the way up to 104.

People see what they want to see and are rarely privy to the secret lives and habits of those they would use as examples for their own.

Agree about the food industry. I don't understand how any self respecting person could work for Monsanto, for example.

Wait. You know my neighbor? :o ...(lol! I have a neighbor whom I have nicknamed 'Mr. Organic')

I agree, but I still can agree with Amber. I too know people who have exercised and eaten healthy for years and years and still have gotten illnesses or died what we could consider 'prematurely'. ...God can choose any way He wishes for us to go, and that may mean He might choose cancer for the most healthiest of people. Though, regardless, I still would choose to live a much better quality of life by eating and drinking well.

And yeah, I can't understand how anyone could work for Monsanto as well.

 

[Calvinator]

Wait. You know my neighbor? :o ...(lol! I have a neighbor whom I have nicknamed 'Mr. Organic')

Uh...


*scrambles to put away binoculars and night vision goggles*...no, of course not!

I agree, but I still can agree with Amber. I too know people who have exercised and eaten healthy for years and years and still have gotten illnesses or died what we could consider 'prematurely'. ...God can choose any way He wishes for us to go, and that may mean He might choose cancer for the most healthiest of people. Though, regardless, I still would choose to live a much better quality of life by eating and drinking well.

And yeah, I can't understand how anyone could work for Monsanto as well.

I hear the argument a lot, actually. Usually it's interspersed with "When it's your time, it's your time. Ya never know! You could get hit by a Mac truck tomorrow!" type of thinking.

So, does that mean that if I play chicken on the highway I just as likely to get hit by a motor vehicle than if I don't?

Monsanto employees: Should be shunned by humanity. I don't care if it's legal, it's not an honest living supporting that organization in any form.

 

[wannaberocker]

So im making breakfast:

Scrambled eggs, 2 slices of bread with cream cheese and 2 turkey sausages and 1 cup of coffee with French vanilla creamer.

YUmmmmm.

BTW it is singles and all this eating habbits talk. THe question then becomes would someones eating habbits be a factor in if you date the or not?

^iv never really though about it. But the more I think about it. If a husband was a meat eater and wife was a vegetarian. You know one of the two would have to sacrifice their eating habits. Cause if you go out and eat you can order different things, but if ya cook at home that would be tough to prepare a complete vegetarian meal and nonagenarian meals separately everyday.

 

[Strider1002]

BTW it is singles and all this eating habbits talk. THe question then becomes would someones eating habbits be a factor in if you date the or not?

^iv never really though about it. But the more I think about it. If a husband was a meat eater and wife was a vegetarian. You know one of the two would have to sacrifice their eating habits. Cause if you go out and eat you can order different things, but if ya cook at home that would be tough to prepare a complete vegetarian meal and nonagenarian meals separately everyday.

I believe husbands and wives are to serve each other, so if she's a veggie-tarian, I'll have no problem cooking meat-free meals for her. I'll just add a steak to mine

 

[Miss Spaulding]

Oh, that would never be a problem for me. For someone who enjoys and is very familiar with cooking, it's not hard to get creative and find a way to incorporate meat along with a vegetarian meal without 'compromising' the vegetarian's food. The most basic and obvious of ways is to simply pull an extra pan/baking sheet/pot/whatever and cook your meat in that separate dish. To sacrifice one's own eating habits or preferred diet is a bit drastic and unnecessary. *However, when one spouse decides to eat a certain way in order to lose weight, it is considerate and very supportive for the other spouse to eat the somewhat the same way.

Personally, even though I hate all meat (including seafood), I'm actually not bothered by certain dishes that happen to contain chicken or turkey in them. I'll just pick out the meat and then everything is fine. I'm not the type of vegetarian where I completely refuse to eat anything that's so much as touched meat. Steak is a bit different I will admit, I'm pretty weirded out by red meat. ...But anyway! My point is, cooking meals for my future spouse, who I'm assuming will be a meat eater, won't be an issue. I've been cooking dinner for my family (all who eat meat) and myself for years now and somehow, some way I always make it work.

 

[Amber.ly]

I could see it being a big deal for a vegan and a carnivore to live blissfully together but there really isn't any problems for a vegetarian/meat eater mix.

I would be more passionate about the butter v. margarine debate

 

[wannaberocker]

So I made Scrambled eggs this morning Gordon Ramsey style. And they came out awesomely good.

 

[Rhye]

My "I don't know what to make so let me add anything just to have food in my tummy."

Baby potatoes, onions, and mushrooms (that I totally forgot we had), I added some ranch dressing mix and put it in the oven.
IT smells good so I hope it tastes good.

 

[wannaberocker]

Well its breakfast time again. So I see that I have eggs but when I was at walmart I forgot to get any meat yesterday. So im now debating if I should go to walmart and get some ham or should I just make eggs and have them with my coffee. decisions decisions.

ah I don't feel like goin to walmart first thing in the morning, ill just have eggs without any meat.

 

[Cearbhall]

What's something you'd like to learn how to make?

Anything! I only have one more school year of being on a food plan and then I'll be in a regular apartment with a kitchen, so I should probably take some time this summer or next summer to teach myself at least a few dishes. I don't really know how to make anything right now. Maybe I'll use this thread to get some ideas!

 

[Strider1002]

I never used dill weed until this week... it adds an interesting flavor, I must say. And not in a bad way.

 

[Miss Spaulding]

I never used dill weed until this week... it adds an interesting flavor, I must say. And not in a bad way.

Fresh or dried dill is great. I always use it on my pasta salad.

 

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[Strider1002]

The only challenge would be is if the meat eater ate nothing *but* meat. Adn then... it'd be a dealbreaker only because I don't want to watch my husband die of cholesterol/heart/obesity/etc... issues at 40.

Nah, meat doesn't do that to ya...

 

[SpiritualAntiseptic]

My fathers doctor told him many years ago that babies need milk (breast milk-obvious) so after that stage in life we don't need milk at all. I forget the reason now because I was young when my dad was diagnosed. but he was a very educated man and he helped save my dads life so I took his words greatly then others. but anyway, I have serious dislike of milk so I don't care much to have it or not.

I didn't cook a thing today. I ate a sandwich!

All mammals drink milk, but stop after childhood. Humans are different because we had livestock that could produce milk, which increased the amount of food available. People had evolved to continue to be able to digest milk after childhood. Lactose intolerance is normal, lactose digestion is an evolved trait.

For people whose ancestors relied on milk, I don't think it can be said with certainty that they don't need milk.

 

[SpiritualAntiseptic]

Mapo dofu! It's tofu and ground beef in a warm, red, sichuan sauce!

 

[2bituser]

What's your favorite recipe to cook?

Microwaved potato.

What's something you'd like to learn how to make?

Pasta.

 

[wannaberocker]

Im gonna have some French toast for breakfast.

 

[wannaberocker]

I'm mostly vegetarian. I'd say 98% of my diet is vegetarian. I don't do it for ethical reasons (although the more I look into it, the more I can understand that point of view). I do it because I *feel* healthier the more I focus on vegetarianism. Its possible at some point I may even try veganism to see if that makes a more positive impact on my health. We'll see.

I think the ethical bit is more brainwashing propaganda from pet care industry and groups like PETA. Nature is brutal and this idea that eating meat is unethical is just unnatural in ways. We really do live in a world where animals have been put on a platform right next to humans as if animal are just as valuable as humans. Like recently iv been watchin these commercials by Pet'co and these commercials refer to the pet as "Children" and the owner as "parent" it irks me to no end when they do that. I mean I understand why the company does it, they want more people to spend more money on pets.

But this idea that the pet is the new child and the owner is the new parent, it just irks me very much.

 

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