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I'll agree with the chinese recomendation...Saturday I had lunch at a vietnamese restaurant. I was the only non-asian person in the whole place and the food was delicious.
as for rice, brown rice is great...we mix it with black beans...very filling and lots of fiber. On nights when black bean does not really go with our meal we mix brown rice with a can of diced tomatoes, white beans, and some itallian seasoning...mmm, good.
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75LOSER:
What do you mean by high carb? Rice is actually really good for you - just don't eat too much! Also substitute brown or wild rice for white if you can - a bit more fiddly to prepare but the extra fibre fills you up more.
LOSINGIT:
The best tip for a Chinese place - see if Chinese folk are eating there! If yes, then it's generally authentic. If no, then it's not. This rule has hardly ever failed for me.
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| OK, not my favorite, but something I really miss is white rice. I used to think I was eating healthy if I cooked up four cups of rice and had some yellow sprinkle cheese on it -- it's low fat, right? Now I'm trying to avoid anything high carb.
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LOSINGIT61
3/4/07 11:42 P
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| Man oh man, I'm going to have to stop coming to this thread. All this fattening food talks are making me fatter, I get hungry everytime I come to this thread, LOL Hope you all have a great night.
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SIGTAULEFTY
3/4/07 7:29 P
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| After some more thought, and some jonesing - I'm gonna add cheese. I would eat slices of cheese just as snacks, but the calories add up way too fast.
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Mring is correct! Convience comes with a price, but sometimes it pays to actually compare. For instance, some of the gallon jugs of cranberry juice cost more per ounce than the half-gallon. So it pays to compare!
Rob
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I wouldn't be surprised if it costs more. First, it probably costs the company more for packaging. Second, it's probably a convenience fee.
However, as with many things, you can definitely save a little money by buying in bulk and then taking care of the moderation yourself.
Case in point: I usually buy a 1 lb bag of baby carrots, and then separate them out into five divisions over the course of the work-week. I used to buy the lunch-size baby carrot packs, but found that it was cheaper to just buy the 1 lb bag and then a box of ziplock bags. 
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| I have been trying to figure out those packs. Aren't they more expensive than doing it into 100 calorie packages yourself? It is nice that they do that for you, but I think it costs more.
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JUSTINTYLER
3/4/07 3:58 P
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| They now sell the 100 Calorie Snack Packs of Cheetos...which has been a GODSEND for me!!! And if you go to Walmart they only sell them for $2.00...just picked up a couple of boxes of those today!
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One of many of mine is Spanish Peanuts, and a few Cheetos mixed in for a chaser. Skeeter
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| What about double stuff Oreos? Forgot about E.L. Fudge cookies. Thin Mints!
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My fave snack food prior to sparkpeople was E.L Fudge cookies. Could not get enough of them in my last years of college, which probably contributed to part of my 10 pounds of weight gain that year...
Glad I've gotten rid of that since then...
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I would go with the pizza bit also. My wife and I still order pizza, but we look at the numbers before ordering it and we are fine. Although a nice Godfather's pizza with thick cheese would be nice, I can do with something else instead of it.
Does anyone know any numbers on Giros at all to input for tracking?
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LOSINGIT61
3/4/07 11:15 A
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| I try my best to stay away from pizza. When I start eating it there's no stopping. You can forget the moderation thing, cause it goes out the window. I eat it on days where I had a good weigh-in, that's the way I treat myself.
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SIGTAULEFTY
3/4/07 8:18 A
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I still eat pizza, but as it's been said pizza is only good in moderation. No more 4-5 slice nights for me.
I would echo Chinese food for me. I remember hungover early afternoons in college rolling to the Chinese Buffet. Those were some rough days for my insides.
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JUSTINTYLER
3/4/07 7:36 A
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I've learned that pizza is still ok as long as you moderate it.
I wish Chinese food was still good for me...but that is on the NO list! LOL
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I trust my Mexican food. But then again, I live 20 minutes from the Mexican border and that really comes through.
My favorite indian food is made in a little shop about 5 miles from work and all they want to know is what color curry and how hot on a 1-10 scale. I eat an 8 most days and save 10 for those days my sinuses are stopped up. Mmmmm, yellow Curry!
The best Chinese food I've ever had was from a little shop insode the 99 Ranch market which is a Chinese food store on steroids. Any thing you can think of to cook in oriental quisine is there.
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| I agree with all of you. Pizza, chinese, mexican... All of it was good. It's crazy how many calories are in the foods we all used to eat. Now that I'm counting I notice how bad my favorites were.
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BUDDHARUNNER
3/3/07 8:05 P
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What was my favorite food before Sparks?
Just name it! I really liked Chinese take out, and steaks (esp. NY strip), and ofcourse, pizza!
The worse one calorie-wise was probably the Chinese food, and before SP I always thought that it was the "lighter" choice.
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LITTLE-LUEY
3/3/07 9:24 A
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LOSINGIT61
I agree, it may very well be very fattening and high in calories. I was born and raised in Mexico and I know the mexican food we have here is very diferent from the way people eat in Mexico, I think it was changed to appeal the american taste, like putting cheese on everything for instance. Diferent places where I have lived depending on the neigborhood, it is how the mexican food was diferent.
My brother in-law is italian (born and raised) and he mention that in his nometown they do not eat pizza like we do here, he said pizza was like once in a month kind of deal, I know I used to eat pizza just about every Friday night!
I am sure is the same way with chinese food.
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JUSTINTYLER
3/3/07 6:39 A
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I would guess it is the fattening stuff.
It's been VERY tough for me to stay away from Chinese Food, but after I saw how many calories it was I knew I had to walk away from it.
Buffalo Wings has also been another major loss to my eating lifestyle...but I have my goals set and I want to stick to them.
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| Ok, I'm not trying to be a smartelic here. This is something I really want to know. We have a restuarant here in my town called China Pan. It is run and operated by Chinese. Is that authentic Chinese or the fattening stuff. I was just wondering. Please let me know.
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Potatoes. Any form, french fries, mashed, baked with butter/sour cream, you name it. I still eat a few potatoes here and there, but not to the extreme I did before. Honestly, it wasn't the potatoes but the things that went with the potatoes that caused me grief.
RZ
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Rant alert, sorry......
Oh god, Chinese food in most of North America is totally Westernised... And also loaded in oil, grease and MSG. A good tip - if the majority of diners are Chinese then it's likely to be a good restaurant. I generally don't eat Chinese food out and it irritates me somewhat when someone's idea of good Chinese food is Chop Suey...
It's a shame that everything (Mexican, Indian (from India, not Native Americans), Italian etc) has to be changed to fit Western style palates. Once you've had the real thing it's really tough to accept anything else...
Rant over, thanks......
Anyway - I used to be a real Instant Noodle eater before Spark. I've actually cut those right out of my diet and make my noodles using proper noodles. Otherwise, it's everything in moderation. Speaking of which, I'm chomping down on a samosa right now - anyone want one?
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without a doubt, cheeseburgers. still have 'em on occasion but not nearly as much anymore. once a month.
and yes, american Chinese food is totally different than Chinese food in china (or at certain places in the US that serve more "authentic" chinese food). it's the same idea as mexican food or italian food.
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| REAL DR. PEPPER!!!!! Even though it is a drink, it was my primary sourse of energy........sigh....I miss it so much.......
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LITTLE-LUEY
3/1/07 9:04 A
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| I agree with Chinese food also, but it is so high in calories, never would have guess how loaded most of it is, but yet you really do not see many fat chinese people. I wonder if the Chinese food we have in the USA is diferent from what the people in China eat. I know that in Mexico, there is more than tacos, tostadas, burritos, (that is like fast food in Mexico)but that is the most available mexican food here.
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ACHILLESONE
3/1/07 1:19 A
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| Well, it is still french fries, but I dont eat them every day now!
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| I still eat most of the foods, I just do portion control. But way before SP when I lived in Kentucky. I liked Gold Star cheese coney's. Man they were good. The only thing is I ate so many of them that they put alot of my weight on me. But since I'm living in Tennessee now, we don't have Gold Star down here so that has helped out alot. Then I guess I would say Chinese food.
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| i still have it, just not all the time: pizza, mexican, ice cream, brownies
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| i was/am a huge pizza and Chinese food fan. i guess in some ways i never really left college. i still eat them on occasion, just less...well, sometimes less. luckily, i am also a huge fan of sandwiches, sushi, and seafood...so i can still have the things i love and not feel too bad about it.
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LITTLE-LUEY
2/28/07 7:15 P
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| That would have to be one hell of a rice cake! Don't worry I'll have a piece of fruit.
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LITTLE-LUEY
2/28/07 6:41 P
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| Ok Russ have a rice cake and think that it is that burrito, mind over matter, mind over matter.
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