Last night Andy fixed really interesting salads--Braeburn apples, Granny Smith apples, lettuce, crumbled blue cheese, lemon juice, olive oil, and honey. It also asked for bacon, and without thinking about it, Andy added turkey bacon. Now I can't actually say what is in turkey bacon because I had wrapped it all up in plastic wrap to freeze, but one of the first things you learn about this experiment is that if it doesn't look like food, it probably isn't. Bacon actually looks like exactly what it is--strips of muscle between rather large strips of fat. Nowhere on a turkey does the meat come in pulverized strips, so I'm pretty positive we used our last cheat of the week last night. RATS!
Andy's first cheat of the week was a diet soda on Monday. He was having a frustrating day and thought it would help. He said it was good, but maybe not worth a "cheat." (For cheat read "white chocolate martini" or "sloppy greasy pizza") My first one was lunch with my parents after I picked them up from the airport. I had them leave the mayonaise off my sandwich and the dressing off my salad, but there isn't a bun in a chain restaurant that doesn't have preservatives of some sort. If Andy thinks HIS "cheat" wasn't worth it--I gave up my martini for a tasteless, processed BUN. How depressing!
Thankfully (sort of), we've had enough pumpkin/rice/bean thing leftovers for 3 more meals this week--though I admit I wasn't sorry to see the last of it tonight. We had hot cereal for breakfast and for lunch I cut up a potato, a little ham (the only "legal" one I could find), onions, green pepper, and some garlic and stir fried it--adding a tiny bit of very sharp cheddar cheese at the end. We have found that most of what I'm cooking is so low fat that it isn't very filling, so I sometimes add small amounts of strong cheese to foods. THAT has been an interesting part of our experiment--who would have ever thought an American would need to add fat to her diet??????
To really explore how much fat is in the American diet, there's a website called Fast Food Facts that lists the calorie content of many of the fast food items available in almost every city in America. Want to see something scary? Look up Burger King's Double Whopper with cheese. Yikes!
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I've never had turkey bacon and after seeing the Oprah show last week, I will not be having any. The guy who writes "Eat This, Not This" was a guest. He said that regular bacon is better that turkey bacon because of the added salt. He also said 'Why make a bird taste like a pig'. Food for thought. Thanks for the site.
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