Watcha eating?

[JDgreen227]

Eating a chicken wing without the bone would be like eating corn on the cob without the cob.

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[IslandTractor]

WP, not to be critical of your choice but I for one have never understood the appeal of chicken wings. To parody Clara Peller: "Where's the meat?" Unless of course, you are referring to boneless chicken wings... but to me a real chicken wing is mostly skin and bones.

1) They are a great excuse to eat chicken skin which is very tasty
2) There is a bit of meat and half the fun is getting it all
3) Despite all the chicken fat, the amount of work you do to eat them helps keep your BMI in a reasonable range
4) Better than just dipping your fingers in bbq sauce and licking them
5) Great way to start a debate on whether southern style bbq or "Buffalo" style is best

I'm sure there are many other good reasons to eat chicken wings too.

 

[whistlepig]

Smoking is low and slow. Thicker cuts of chicken can dry out in a smoker (there are ways around this). Smoked wings are tasty, quick, and easy prep. I dip them in warm Frank's Buffalo sauce after they come out of the smoker.

 

[sixdogs]

.. I'm not anywhere near to being a vegetarian, but my intake of red meats is almost nil, and I don't eat eggs anymore than once every 6 months. I eat low-fat low-sodium soups with some chicken, and I eat mostly salads with roasted chicken when I go out. My local Mexican food restaurant has a roasted chicken chipotle salad with lettuce, tomato, avocado, roasted chicken with chipotle sauce, and a small amount of crumbled feta cheese on top.:licking: I also love every kind of bean on the planet and keep the Beano company solvent with my purchases. Earlier this week, my wife fixed both eggplant and chicken parmigiana with a baked instead of fried recipe. The chicken had crumbled cornflakes for the breading. Actually, I preferred the eggplant. Its flavors and textures are far more interesting than the chicken. Don't get me wrong. The chicken was good and I had some, but not nearly as much as the eggplant. Eating that was a big splurge for me. Mostly, I eat fruit, beans, and soups. Those are my staples.

My heart doc would approve of this diet in a big way. It's a shame more people don't eat this way.
Couple the above diet with low blood pressure, some exercise and you'll likely be around longer than you want. Worth noting, my friend that's a heart doc says a key component of a heart attack or a plaque issue is the high blood preesure that preceeds it and goes on for too long and couple with an errant diet.

 

[herd0ne]

Just had a Wendys Chili.. I love that stuff.. but can someone tell me why sometimes the container if full other times it's an inch from being full other times a quarter inch from being full etc.. You never get the same portion size..

 

[txdon]

Jdgreen227, About your inquiry on protein:
I was just looking over the fine details of the recent Mediterranean Diet study that was compare to the supposedly low fat diet. The Mediterranean Diet group had 41% fat and the Low fat diet group (AKA control group) had 37% fat (most consider low fat less than 10% fat). Interestingly I also found that in the table where the % of protein is compared. The control group had a slightly higher protein intake 17% compared to 16% in the Mediterranean Diet group. In the study there was no difference in statically significance of heart disease between the two groups but they added in strokes which did have a statically significance and combine it with the heart disease to obtain the outcome. (The control group reported their diet from a short question survey taken once a year during the first three years of the study- how controlled is that?)

I have gone to a conference where Dr. T. Colin Campbell had spoken, and in his study of diet in the China Study, he showed an increase of heart disease and cancer in people is proportional to the increase of protein and fat in the diet. The threshold of 10% was where the diseases were virtually nonexistent. Protein is not the cause of cancer but has been shown to be the "fertilizer" of cancer. Excess protein in the body is turned to fat, not muscle.

When I ate chicken wings years ago, I agree, tasty because of the crisp fat and BBQ sauce, but too much work for any satisfying eating.

 

[brin]

" When I ate chicken wings many years ago, I agree, tasty because of the crisp fat and BBQ sauce,

but too much work for any satisfying eating. "

:confused3: Come on now Don.....Chicken wings , you gotta be kidding...We don't eat them often but when we do we trim as much of the excess skin as we can and we bake them with sauce in the oven >..Yum !

Not too much work for us... eating them is part of the fun :thumbsup: and the taste is the reward for the effort...Each to his own...:licking:

 

[Ted Summey]

Just finished a plate of beer can chicken, corn and fried okra.

 

[DFB]

Chicken here too...but with a penne, tomato sauce, mozzeralla cheese and crushed red pepper!

 

[JDgreen227]

txdon...Ok now...so far today my protein intake has been 12 grams from 2 hard boiled eggs, 8 grams from 2 slices of whole grain bread with peanut butter, 10 grams from a sandwich prepared with lunchmeat on 2 slices of whole grain bread, and another 12 grams from 2 slices of cojack cheese. Tonite I will enjoy about 6 ounces of baked cod fillets which will provide me with another 25 grams of protein. Total intake for the day will be about 67 grams. According to what I read, the recommended RDA for men my age is 56 grams. So am I doing it wrong?