National Eat What You Want Day
 

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The concept behind Eat What You Want Day is pretty straightforward — for one whole day, indulge in all your favorite foods with fervor, no second thoughts or negativity allowed. Which, at first, sounds like a dream as you think about the mega burrito order you’re gonna unleash on Chipotle for lunch later on today. But then, you realize that the idea of having one day of the year allocated for eating your favorite foods no strings attached implies that eating your favorite foods any other day of the year does come with strings attached — and that makes me kind of sad.


Also, it's National Hamburger Month.

Sounds like Benno got the memo...

I'll have a big steak, glass of scotch, and cigar.

Once you eat healthy long enough, its what you want. Ive been eating other stuff lately. And i dont feel so hot.

Sounds like everyday to me.

I had ten strips of bacon on Sunday, which usually represents my normal bacon consumption over a six-month period. I need you all to join hands and pray for my cardiovascular system.

I guess today it's back to Soylent Green

Panqueques........................... for lunch.

Like, EVERYDAY is eat LARGE American day! LOL!

Could be anything, could be just guilt. http://www.peachparts.com/shopforum/...5040261573.jpg

Agreed, these days every fast food meal is followed by a stomach ache. Plus a tooth scrub of course.

Recently I couldn't even make it through a whole can of Coke, had to toss it with a 1/4 left when a sugar cramp set in. Can't believe people swill that syrup daily.

For me it happened from being a poor guy at farmers market. Everyone trades.

Getting around other people they say they cant afford to eat like that. I cant afford not too.

For meat, I let customers or good friends hunt on the ranch. Put meat in my freezer. Or help out the cowboys, and when one breaks its leg, it goes in the freezer.

Coffee. My only weakness.

Did you know the natives didn't get cavities due to their diet?

I ate subway yesterday. It was a rough night.

Same with alcohol. Dont do it a long time, and you notice the effects of just one. Even mental clarity the next day. I notice im more combative. I just gave it up.

Theres something called "the master cleanse." It will speed up the process of cleansing your body. Nothing but a drink mixture of water, lemon juice, maple syrup and cayenne pepper for 10 days.

Granted. Im 5'10" and 150 lbs. Normal by the rest of the worlds standards, anorexic by americans. However, before eating this way i would run 120-130.

Oh I love the farmers market, my wife and I go every Saturday. We probably buy about 50% of our food there.

I've heard that said, it is more expensive to eat well unfortunately. I think another issue is most people (including me) are too lazy to prepare their own food most of the time. If you cook all your own meals from scratch eating healthily shouldn't cost significantly more, but there is the time commitment.

Lucky, meat is a bit of a crap shoot for us usually just get the best we can at Wegmans. I just started a fairly high paying job so maybe we can afford to buy organic or get meat from the public market in the near future.

I like coffee too, idt it's bad for you as long as it's black.

Didn't know that but it makes sense.

Yeah the meat there is real concerning. Plus none of the vegetables have any flavor, but that's standard really.

I've cut way back on drinking too. Recently my hangovers have been colossal enough to serve as effective aversion therapy. I do love beer though, Guinness is my favorite.

Wow 10 days, I could maybe do it with fruits and veggies. After reading the hunger games (the first book was good, the rest are garbage) I was humbled and fasted for 24hrs. It just occurred to me that I had never experienced real hunger before I didn't really then either to be fair.

Funny you should mention anorexic, I'm 6' and 140lbs.

No, I didn't. Source? What did they eliminate as variables?

Probably has a lot to do with your built up tolerance. First time skiing, I have aches and pain. By the end of the season, I'm tired but OK.

There's also something called Enzyte endorsed by none other than Ron Jeremy. Doesn't mean I believe it without some scientific proof. As a diet to lose weight, maybe. Cleansing? What are you trying to remove and how did you prove it worked?

I've been to quite a few of them and found their prices definitely higher. Whether they are really any good or not, I'm not certain enough to justify the higher price.

No two ways about it. Eating healthy is going to cost more in money and time. If you can't afford it, that's life. You get what you paid for. Consider this. They make a profit off a $1 McChicken. So using that price, what will it cost you to raise the chicken to see that it is done the way you want and to cook it the way it should be cooked? What is the cost time wise? Sorry but if you can't run with the big dogs, don't get off the porch.

I don't know about Wegman's but Wal*Mart meat is cheaper than the other supermarket chains and definitely the butcher BUT the quality isn't there. Sometimes cooking it, there is a rancid smell. Cheap, good and fast? As the Meatloaf song goes, "2 out of 3 ain't bad".

In moderation, you can do a lot of eating. In excess, even water will kill you.

To me that is like setting a goal of an alcoholic pledging not to drink alcohol for 24 hrs. Easy, relatively speaking compared to when you don't know when your next drink is.

Churchill drank six pints of whiskey a day, and smoked an estimated 250,000 cigars in his life time, as well as enjoying proper eating.

He lived long enough and saved the free world from Hitler so I'll go with his diet!:D

90 is a little scary for me. IIRC, it didn't go well after the war.

Ah but have you been to the Rochester public market? One of the oldest in the country, the prices are very cheap as long as you don't buy the first tomato you see. I've purchased mangos 2 for $1, 3 heads of lettuce $1. Some things are more but you know how it goes as quality goes up...

So there is chicken in those sandwiches? I always assumed they called it a McChicken to protect themselves legally. Let me look through some dumpsters, I bet I can put together a $0.75 "chicken" sandwich. Pure profit!

Mmm rancid meat, I stick to things like wd-40 for my wal-mart shopping. There produce is the stuff of nightmares.

Excessive moderation, I like it, very American.

Trueish, it wasn't impressive. But you don't need alcohol to live... even an alcoholic.

Yeah no kidding. I find I eat half the amount I used to eat 10 years ago though.

I'm afraid not. Been in and out of NY but never shopped there.

ASSUME:= Makes and Ass out of ........

I don't think it is rancid meat. It just has a rancid smell when cooked. Didn't cause me to be sick. Just like the couple of times I had a Steak with bacon around it at the Prime Quarter in Janesville. Bacon made me want to puke but didn't get sick or eat enough to get sick from.

Go ask an alcoholic or a heroine addict. Point is, it is easy to give up something for a known period of time. Much harder when it is an uncertain or indefinite period.

If you get the chance go in the fall, the fresh grapes are divine. The type with thick skin and pits, those babies are good I'm thinking of trying to make wine with them.

That really only applys to person-person assumptions. I am an ass but I don't see how you're involved.

So did it taste rancid? I hate to waste food but I might have passed on that one.

Not really depends on many variables, give up water for a day or air for an hr, it's a known period of time.

From Pollan: Eat food, not too much, and mostly plants.

National Eat What You Want Day
 

Awesome. Its a good place to shop.

I tell people to buy small, not organic. Little farms cut overhead. Big farms increase productivity if it makes financial sense. Ie, they use more "stuff" on their crops.

Source would be William Fairbanks PHd. I went to school for socioculural anthropology. Dr fairbanks is the top anthropologist in the field of california indians, although that fact covers all of them in north america. And actually all of pre history.

I have his text book in manuscript form. Not sure if it got published.

Suuuppeeerrr cool guy.

If you look around at farmers, and learn whats thriving and in abundance, it can be cheaper.

Its work though. Knowing the growers. Keeping up every week with whats in season.

Honestly ive been shopping at the store lately, and can do the same thing. Theres always something reasonably priced, from near by, fresh, and tasty.

Eat seasonally over organic or locally. Thats the trick.

Winter sucks. I get tired of kale.

I usually go for seedless grapes. Never tried wine making. Usually prefer to buy Eiswein myself. I don't think you can easily make that from grapes at the Farmer's market.

If we assume, we both probably will make asses out of ourselves.

No it didn't but it wasn't as tasty as others either which is why I passed on it.

Friend of mine asked me if I thought he had an alcohol problem. Simply put, I asked if he could roll the 3 dice and if he got 2 sixes, drink. If not, don't. That he couldn't even commit to that makes me suspect he can't put the booze down. I can smoke and drink if offered either or both. I haven't had either for a few months. I don't know when my next smoke or drink is coming.

The wine is kind of a pipe dream at this point. I Googled it and it seemed doable. You don't really need much equipment I don't think, but who knows. I may start a thread for procedures, opinions...
I know a guy who made wine in those 5 gallon water jugs using frozen cans of juice concentrate, maybe other stuff too I never asked. Remarkably it was very tasty, more like juice than wine but that's exactly what I want.

They make bruno in prison with old fruit and trash bags.

I have a small vineyard. But someone makes the wine.

I know the trick is not letting oxygen hit it.

For the leftovers from barrels i bought a keg. He fills it with some sort of gas.

And you can buy wine grapes. Prob a search for someone that will sell low quanity.

Not sure what they make port with...