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

i am guilty of the soy mac and also tofutti cuties are my secret shame.

tofutti cuties 8080

yeah tofutti cuties are seriously addicting...

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.

i crave the soy cheese pizza from viva herbal on 2nd avenue.

how eat something called tofutti?

tofutti p-orridge?

lol

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...

Are bocca burgers THAT bad? I know they must be when I cook them with tons of olive oil

"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

i say true. seriously, you're eating cheetos! who are you kidding?!

I've never seen those!

tofurkey just makes me think of turducken, which i am much more interested in trying.

yes!!!!

boca burgers is owned by philip morris

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.

they have a dairy mix as a base, i believe.

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.

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.

boca burgers is owned by philip morris

O_o @ cosmos

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

SMARTFOOD

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.

what's wrong with gluten? i mean, provided you don't have celiac disease

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.

Isn't it generally bad for :

boca burgers is owned by philip morris

-- and what, Wednesday, June 13, 2007 6:58 PM (2 hours ago)

It's called Altria and they even own your poop.

Actually, I forgot that the Kraft Foods division was spun off, so your poop may be under a separate corporate entity now.

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 :-\

Those baked cheetos are actully pretty good but they seriously disappoint in the leave-your-fingers-covered-in-awesomeness department.

oh god food service salad bar.

I try to eat raw fruit or veggies now with ever meal

of course i am drinking HFCS RIGHT NOW :(

According to Starbucks, a 16 oz Caramel Frappuccino with *whip*=

430 calories
16 g fat
10 g sat. fat
52 g sugar

Maybe not *quite* as bad as a milkshake, but pretty bad.

BTW a 16 oz BURGER KING shake is actually healthier, with about the same level of calories & fat but no saturated fat. (god knows what's in it)

bell labs, i am not but i am trying to cut down on animal fats (except bacon)

-- elmo argonaut, Wednesday, June 13, 2007 6:47 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Link

haha, me too. i've cut down on meat in a big way, mostly because it's expensive and a pain in the ass to prepare. basically i just buy bacon and eat it on the weekend, in burritos.

if i could afford the fish out here, though, i'd eat that shit 94/7

also: that michael pollan article is great.

space age polymers, bro xpost

yeah i do not understand frappacinos at all and how they are considered a beverage - i see women holding on to this hueg cup and i'm like that's food, that's practically a meal!
i also have a thing about big take-out cups. they are weird.

yoga told me to be a vegetarian and then it told me to eat some chicken the other day so i did and now i seem fine again with being sometime-veg whatever. i don't really believe in most packaged food in the first place <-- obv (also, not a yuppie)

see also: lattes. soooo much milk - surely that's enough protein and other stuff to tide you over for many hours, not to accompany a meal, right?!
xpost

Also lattes are pricy if you buy them a couple times a week.

also if you're putting caramel in something that something is a dessert

i am no fun :(

xpost people be liking to spend money on dumb stuff they think is cool cf headbands

except for the cool headbands

and the cool coffee

i guess

iced coffee poured into a plastic bag and frozen into the shape of a headband

dot jpeg

and getting r@ped by don cheney

people in brazil eat a lot of stuff that's not great for you -- juice with every meal, cheese and meat like crazy, loads of starches, loads of sugar, big portions. but they're all in amazing shape because they all play soccer and volleyball and lift weights and go rollerblading.

i want to play soccer

i've been drinking acai a lot -- it's very caloric, but a big one makes a filling lunch on a hot day.

acai?

man i want a whole mess of lara bars right now, shiyet

aimless is no thread safe from your chin stroking banality

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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!

- Aimless

"Any highly processed snack food", no loaded words there nope

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.

also, the sugar content in them comes from more benign sources than hfcs.

"Any highly processed snack food", no loaded words there nope

You got me all wrong, brimstead. I always eat my cabbage in the form of triangular chip.

you're missing out, cabbage is a wonderful even as accessorial ruffage.

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.

i think the worst offender of junk food that appeals to whole foods shoppers is artisanal soda, like virgil's. soda is evil imho.

This thread inspired me to buy some Chia seed tortilla chips yesterday.

i've had virgils, aint nothing evil about that sweet sweet root beer

reed's ginger beer is my weakness

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 today
http://www.primalspiritfoods.com/images/products/PrimalStrips/flavor_group_large_mesquite_lime.jpg
75 calories apiece! very tasty! maybe high in sodium is the only thing
http://www.primalspiritfoods.com/products_flavor_details.php#MesquiteLime

I gave my three-year-old a luna bar and she really liked it = it is a candy bar

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.

https://casasanchezsf.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/totopos-casa-sanchez-sf.jpg

literally my entire diet belongs in this thread, i have put on like 30 pounds in the last couple of years, envy my life

“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

This thread has everything.

https://thumbor.thedailymeal.com/Sk8bL8_na9rnPhp2b9yc_HivQtk=/870x565/https://www.thedailymeal.com/sites/default/files/story/2016/RX-Bar%20Title%20Image.jpg

https://i0.wp.com/www.eatthis.com/wp-content/uploads//media/images/ext/918357171/kind-bars.jpg?fit=500%2C366&ssl=1

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.

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.

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.

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.

Can you still get those Powerbars that were like a thin slabs of tar?

I’m crazy about these, I don’t know if they count, they’re not made for scarfing/wolfing

https://roweofvenice.com/collections/snacks/products/espresso

um did you mean to post that on the Naked Juice thread