list junk food dressed up for yuppies who are too smart for junk food

yeah i would like a cd-r too

I had some *tofu skin* (the top layers of tofu or something). Shit if I know what it's called, my mom said it was healthy and I thought it was extremely yummy. I'm getting tired of her "It's good because it's healthy" line. Sometimes I don't fucking care whether it's healthy or not, as long as my taste buds (heheh) don't scream murder, I'm happy.

Or sth.

Shit if I know what it's called,

okara (not to be confused with okura)

we talked a lot about umami this wkend for some reason. pos b/c we ate a lot of food and were talking abt food in general, but mostly healthy non-packaged food (so much organic farm-fresh vegetable matter yaay. also steak & sausages - kosher? i do not know.) i learned that putting salt on tomatoes = umami! that is why it tastes so good, the salt addition makes umami

re: CDR : you can get cdr from me :) there are v limited quantites (it is only 20 min long - 2 songs. there is weirdo cover art). you have to do this thing which is called email/facebook/myspace msg tho ooh

i swam in a lake a lot this wkend and also stripped paint off a cottage and painted a bit too - the former is kind of a lot of work, at least in the heat, but it's cool to get a job done. and then there is food/bbqs and gin&tonics/beer and lake to swim in

oh and okay so i do not buy into this yuppie health food junk food but one thing that is good, i have found, is the chocolate bar thing made by larabar - oh, it's definitely dessert-like but it's sweetened with dates and is not full of chemical nonsense

beware of the umami false grail... it usually ends up with MSG and that misses the whole point.

You sure, Steve. I looked it up and it doesn't mention uh... the skin like texture of it. I asked my mom. She'll know. God, I miss that. Really yummy.

Steve, it's called yuba.

putting salt on tomatoes

what a horrible thing to do to a tomato!

you are insane

i mean boring

you've never had a good tomato

"actual organic fruit juice" = first ingredient is apple juice = we used apple juice as our sugar water substitute, since it's mostly sugar water

or maybe you've never had good salt

Y, if and only if "good" = all.

I drank a Bossa Nova Acai-Blueberry juice today. It was REALLY tasty, and its primary ingredients are actual acai juice and actual blueberry.

The bottle had a chart on the back about how much higher acai is in antioxidants than other fruits - great. But according to the nutrition info, it does not appear that most of those antioxidants actually survive the juicing process.

Very clever, Bossa Nova.

on what end of the spectrum does this fall

http://lamar.colostate.edu/~hillger/products/kashi.jpg

http://goalsuccess.typepad.com/goaltips/snappea.gif

i ate a whole bag of these at my mom's & she was like WHERES MY SNACK PEAS

they are actually very good

acai isn't served as a juice in brazil, it's served as a pulp of the frozen berries.

kashi frozen dinners

are those peas just peas in a pod? baked? is there oil & salt?
weird. i would just eat, y'know, snap peas. but i guess they are not crunchy like chips.

kashi looks like it might have a lot of processed ingredients - "soy protein grahams"?

just a sec, I ate one for dinner and am bored, will type ingredients list

Ingredients: Cooked Kashi(R) pilaf (list of grains), Cooked chicken (including "chicken flavor"), Rice starch, evaporated cane juice, water, green beans, vinegar, and a whole bunch of shit that seems harmless! Fuck, maybe it's not bad for me outside of the 12% of RDA cholesterol and 16% sodium. Or as I call them, "flavor" and "preservatives."

i think the kashi go lean cereal is aok - fiber is good.
the snap pea crisps are ridic and you might as well eat chips. they are greasy and fried (or maybe baked w/ a lot of oil but i don't think that texture comes from baking...) and i would rather just eat raw green beans.

oh i looked it up, man they are baked. i don't know what kinda baking that is, though... ugh.

"SnapeaCrisps originate from high quality sun-dried peas. Using new and unique technology, we created the world's first easily graspable, snow pea-shaped crisp!

We have come up with a product that is pleasing to the eye as well. In fact, although SnapeaCrisps are themselves peas, the product is innovative because it retains all the unique characteristics of the peas and, at the same time, removes the pet peeves traditionally associated with them."

scary.

"easily graspable"?

i don't want innovated pea-shaped things created using 'unique technology'... i just like peas!

those shits are addictive

they leave weird film in mouth :(

i ate a whole bag of these at my mom's & she was like WHERES MY SNACK PEAS

hah must be a mom thing bc the only time i have ever had them was also at mom's.

my parents have 8 different kinds of kashi cereal. why does "fiber" in cereal always have to mean weird little twigs. it doesn't really seem necessary.

my favorite cereal is this kind, which is more health food dressed up for evangelical christian nutjobs (and hippies) it's like the dr brommers of cereal
http://kitchen.apartmenttherapy.com/images/uploads/2006_01_11-ezekiel.jpg

ooh i have not had that cereal but i love their breads. they make the best toast.

i like grape nuts. i've done a total 180 from when i liked supersweet kids cereal and now enjoy the taste of gravel

http://www.udel.edu/chem/white/C643/CaseProb/Product19.JPG

4 life

last night I got home and Peter Jennings had eaten a partial tube of topical steroid cream (someone in the house has eczema).

are you calling peter jennings a yuppy and saying that eczema cream is junk food dressed up for him?

YES

ok, just checking.

ha, I used to eat Product 19 junk food. now i eat shredded wheat :(

is peter ok after his junk food binge?

DO NOT GO NEAR DISSING MY BELOVED KASHI!!

yeah, i had to call aspca poison control at 2am last night. he says it just reminds him of the time he had chlamydia. he has to pee a lot.

oh no peter jennings :(

Did we curse him with the poor showing

is it okay to profess my love for peter jennings?

yeah, he is always like "lrater" to me lately without even a high five, because i have not been spending enough time at home. which is why i think he went for the petroleum based steroid in the metal squeeze tube. he all bunnicula'd that up last night.

Is Peter Jennings going to get an Iphone?

no, because i already get enough texts when I am not home
"herro. me rramo pedro rennings. que rasa. ROR. OMGWTR!!!"

oh peter :(

Does Peter Jennings have a blog?

he used to have a brog, but it's now defunct. it just didn't make sense and I took it away because he would use my laptop and get crumbs all over it and screw up my bookmarks.